We introduce ourselves

Max and Serena introduce the 1RG space & community in Toronto, and describe the new 1RG Incubator.

Boris goes deep on AT Protocol, the open social protocol that powers Bluesky and other apps.

Mentions and Links

UKAI Projects, talking about cultural R&D:

At UKAI, we seek and test out approaches to culture that make sense of the world we are creating and handing down to future generations.

We call this work cultural research and development, and just like R&D in other fields, we are trying to make things better. In our case, we are trying to build resilience to massive volatility and change.

Erin Kissane, saying we can’t just have technologists retreat to cozy web spaces that THEY are capable of inhabiting, writing in Against the Dark Forest:

The public social internet is worth designing and governing in a way that demonstrates less than total amnesia about the history of human civilizations and the ways we’ve learned to be together without killing each other. For people with the ability and willingness to work on network problems, the real choice isn’t between staying on the wasteland surfaces of the internet and going underground, but between making safer and better places for human sociability and not doing that.

The ATProto Browser lets you look at the data in your user repo. You’ll see Bluesky posts if that’s all you’ve tried, but as an example Recipe Exchange is an app that stores recipes in your account. This very much demonstrates user-owned data.

You can browse Boris’ account to get a sense for different types of data.