Episode 20: Catching up in the Atmosphere

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Dan used BirdNET and rtsps streams to turn Loud Birds In Your Local Neighborhood into numbers...

... and post them to Bluesky at @bluebirdnet.danhon.com

Eli appears as a challenger from Stream.place and talks to us about bringing video to Content-Addressed Specs, and DASL to the Atmosphere

... and totally does not tease us about video on demand (VOD) on Stream.place

Also, C2PA for media, for verifying content authenticity and establishing provenance chains -- that some news organizations, like BBC Labs, are experimenting with

and there's the S2PA -- the simple standard for provenance and authenticity -- which is a fork of C2PA, because maybe the goals/needs of decentralized social media are aligned with Adobe's C2PA which came from the top-down root cert provider x.509 model, versus a lets-encrypt bottom-up model that's much more in line with our ATproto world

@reckless.bsky.social and Jess Wetherhead talked about the problems with C2PA on The Verge in Reality is Losing the Deepfake War.

... and this is in conjunction with @ipfs.tech!

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Eli's super excited to hopefully have this launched by the time of ATmosphere Conference in March!

Everyone using Stream.place is using one big-ass server that Eli's running, but the whole thing has been designed from the start to be able to self-host

... it looks like we might get a contemporary version of something like SMIL:

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An AtmosphereConf update!

The conference website is live now! https://atmosphereconf.org

... along with a round of talk announcements: https://atmosphereconf.org/#talks

Ted's theory of the case is looking for three things:

Provide a vision

Making it actionable / now

Doing it together

We Can Do Things (Now)!

Also the conference website is open so if you see something you can fix, you can fix it! (thanks to @natalie.sh )

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@alex.bsky.team from Bluesky joined as a challenger!

He's really excited about taking part in the conference and running two workshops with @jimray.bsky.team

... a new ATProtodocs.com has launched!

@quillmatiq.com joined us!

The Ecosystem Access Research Group @ecosystemaction.com published their Call for Proposals for the purpose of standing up a credible developer community. It's focussing on five core themes:

User Experience

Brand Awareness

Trust & Safety Research

Economic Factors

Contributor Enablement

The goal of Ecosystem Action Research is to facilitate strategic innovation to address the above five themes. We will conduct interviews, run workshops, and co-create research artifacts to support conversations for action in the community. To build trust and encourage open collaboration, we will communicate regular updates on the outputs of our research.

@ngerakines.me joined us!

We're going to talk about Permissioned and Private Data!

Rudy announced private data/posts that will only show up to people in Blacksky. The data for those posts is held in Blacksky application database.

Nick has written about this whole concept of permissioned, controlled, private data.

Dan also just realized he wrote a little about this in his newsletter in What Does It Mean To Be Friends?

Here's some of Nick's posts:

https://ngerakines.leaflet.pub/3mf5wu6fs6225

https://ngerakines.leaflet.pub/3mf7we5j4ek2w

Private/Permissioned Data in Blacksky

Private/Permissioned Data Proposals from Nick Gerakines

Thoughts from the Bluesky Protocol Team