Is anyone building an ATProto-enabled product for school groups and minivan moms? Because that's what keeps people on Facebook and, along with that, reading & sharing misinformation.
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Discussions with educational folks highlight the need to re-evaluate educational practices and share learnings. This includes not only teachers but also public institutions and associations that practice openness. Partnerships between academia and industry are essential.
aug 21, 2025, 8:37 am • 0 0 • view
Marketplace is a very strong incentive to stay on Facebook. We've bought and sold quite a lot of stuff on there.
aug 14, 2025, 5:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Our Buy Nothing group is the lobster trap for me. It's the only way I stay on top of kids' constantly changing gear and clothing, and I've met quite a few neighborhood friends this way.
aug 14, 2025, 5:08 pm • 3 0 • view
i think part of the reason this hasn't been done yet on atproto is because there's no means for private data yet so anything someone in a group would post would be public
aug 14, 2025, 4:07 pm • 7 2 • view
probably isn't an issue for *most* groups, but would help with the migration off of fb
aug 14, 2025, 4:07 pm • 2 0 • view
yes, big missing piece there.
aug 14, 2025, 4:08 pm • 4 0 • view
but I would love to see someone jump on this and push the protocol forward in parallel. the protocol changes for private data aren't going to write themselves and will be much better with one or more driving use cases.
aug 14, 2025, 4:13 pm • 6 1 • view
There's also an effort that @blaine.bsky.social is leading at New_Public
aug 15, 2025, 8:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes! Had the pleasure of meeting/hearing from Blaine at ATmosphere Conf in Seattle, excited to see what they brew up. From New_Public's website, their focus has been building for formal institutions like journalism & towns/geographies. (con't)
aug 15, 2025, 8:52 pm • 1 0 • view
My hot take after ~12y in adjacent spaces is that for every formal community, there are far more informal ones that harvest 20x the passion & attention. Buy Nothing, animal rescue, youth sports, community sports, chronic illness, music... IMO that's what people want better community tooling for.
aug 15, 2025, 8:56 pm • 2 0 • view
That I can definitely see the appeal of (and it's less "formal", like you mentioned) and aligned to things that, funnily enough, move people *offline*
aug 15, 2025, 9:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Agreed! I want to see more like Front Porch Forum in VT. Also really encouraging to see newpublic.org incubating healthier design conventions for social media:
aug 14, 2025, 4:18 pm • 3 0 • view