Exploring Secure Scuttlebutt and Decentralized Social Networks

Paul Frazee joins Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about the inner workings of Bluesky and the AT Protocol. Paul and the Bluesky team have been working on decentralized systems for years and years--very cool to see both the next evolutionary step in those ideas and their successful application in Bluesky!

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included our special guest, Paul Frazee, and slightly-less-special guest, Steve Klabnik.

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• Scuttlebutt
• Bluesky Firehose
• Bluesky Jetstream
• Bluesky and the AT Protocol
• Bluesky Feed: Quiet Posters
• Bluesky's bot invasion: AI accounts argue with everything you post
• AI Imagery labeler
• atproto
• Oxide starter pack

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!