Kevin Marks#ProtocolsForPublishers @[email protected]: Branded community apps - Newsmast and The Bristol Cable - one branded app per server and community - combines community feeds with the publishers articles
#ProtocolsForPublishers @[email protected]: AtProto is different - the Data is separated from the App - the data layer is distinct and your content exists independently from any app
#ProtocolsForPublishers @[email protected]: when you log into bluesky, you log into an app, but the data is outside. The app picks up a bit of data from the big pool of data and shows you some of it
#ProtocolsForPublishers @[email protected]: Bluesky is the default platform - other options based on geography (Eurosky, Gander) and Identity (Blacksky, Northsky) are popping up
#ProtocolsForPublishers @[email protected]: Eurosky is EU - Gander is canadian; Blacksky is for the black community; Northsky for the LGBTQ+ community
#ProtocolsForPublishers @[email protected]: beyond bluesky this data lake enables abroader protocol ecosystem - Tangled (github like) Streamplace (video) Leaflet (long form content)
#ProtocolsForPublishers @[email protected]: standards.site is a grassroots standard for longform content so the different longform apps can interoperate
#ProtocolsForPublishers @[email protected]: AI Agents - not chatbots but the agents running over atproto - it makes a good substrate as the open data is legible to machines becasue of consistent structure
#ProtocolsForPublishers @[email protected]: Mastodon is counter-positioning as the human network - explicitly contrasted with AI-mediated platforms
#ProtocolsForPublishers @[email protected]: big tech conflated two things - community building and news distribution. They're very different things, but are stuffed into one
#ProtocolsForPublishers @[email protected]: the Open social web can separate these again
#ProtocolsForPublishers @[email protected]: ATPtroto - experiment wiht distribution - put content on protocol, let algorithms find audiences
#ProtocolsForPublishers @[email protected]: ActivityPub: build community apps - share with your audience