AT Namespaces for Community Spaces

Some thoughts on technical issues surrounding building communities on ATproto, although it doesn't address the issue of what happens to someone's "community posts" when they leave a community?

"AT makes it easy for individual accounts to publish things, and to build global aggregations from them. But community spaces are a bit different... forums or group discussion spaces...:

• should be possible to migrate communities between service providers without losing social structure or relationships...
• long-term control should not be tied to any ... single party."

Although the post quickly establishes that some aspects are easy, that latter challenge is the problem: "there is no easy offboarding to collective governance or transfer of control" - the community's tied to its founder's account.

Labellers provide a possible model ("each labeler (moderation service) is a dedicated DID"), but that means creating "an additional identity which needs to be maintained over time", it could result in "a huge increase in the number of DIDs in the network", while if the "controlling keys are lost the community would be left in a permanent zombie state".

Other possibilities include Namespace IDs (which have an early usenet / reddit hierarchy feel), random strings, or some combination.