The Atmosphere Community Cooperative is another step towards building a truly open social web ecosystem

Link: Introducing the Atmosphere Community CooperativeAT Protocol is the underlying protocol that powers Bluesky, Chicago.com, Sill, Surf, Leaflet, and many other social apps and services. It’s designed to be open, decentralized, and interoperable: the idea is that no one entity owns it, and any tool built on the protocol is theoretically interoperable with all the other tools. It’s one piece of an emerging, diverse open social web that’s free of monopolistic control.At the News Product Alliance summit last month, Joe Germuska and I presented on AT Protocol with Frank Sharpe and Andjela Padejsky from Chicago Public Media. The protocol has allowed them to build Chicago.com more efficiently: they know two codebases they write on the protocol will work together. It’s also proven to be useful scaffolding for LLM-assisted development, which has allowed their development team to punch above its weight. There hasn’t been much attention paid to the protocol in spaces like journalism: our…

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