Conference Takeaways – Toni.org

According to Bluesky Social's new CEO, "what struck me most about this one was the wide range of projects" - not just social apps, but also "wildfire coordination tools for the US fire service, decentralized AI and biomedical knowledge networks, and creating shared infrastructure to connect astronomy observatories".

He was also a youandme.at enjoyer, remarking that how others built on the basic social graph data it created "in between sessions and required no coordination with the original developer.... [everyone's] using atproto to build and coordinate in the open... across organizational boundaries, sharing structured data".

On Attie: he finds the idea empowering, is OK with the anti-AI backlash, but regrets the way it was presented: "I asked the team to show off a demo ... The resulting presentation felt more like a consumer product demo rather than the start of a conversation about how the technology fits into the atproto developer community", and hattipped Trezy's pireceabout sherlocking.