The Iron’s Still Hot

Daniel Holmgren, Head of Protocol at Bluesky, joins Jim and Alex for a live AMA on the permissioned data project. Their conversation starts with a core question: why does permissioned data need to be a separate protocol at all, rather than an extension of the existing public one? Then Daniel answers your questions about how “spaces” compose into communities, governance issues around community-owned DIDs, writing to another person’s PDS (short version: don’t), a Giphy-style sharing use case, moderation in non-encrypted spaces, and why space declarations are lexicons rather than records. Up top, the usual news from the Atmosphere. Links and Resources A new account management interface for the reference PDS A summer of blogging with Standard.site Leaflet's Standard.site explainer Devin Ivy's Atmospheric login diary co/core is pooled inference from Graze Social Marque.at is a domain registrar on atproto and locale.at is a translations framework, both built by Padding Labs Gifthood is a buy-nothing community project Daniel's permissioned data proposal Nick Gerakines read-through of Daniel's proposal Listen and read more at atproto.com/off-protocol/ama-dholms-irons-still-hot Off Protocol is a production of the Bluesky developer relations team. For more about AT Protocol and an archive of this show, head to atproto.com. Our theme music was composed and produced by Saleem Reshamwala. Catch our livestream every other Wednesday at stream.place/atproto.com.