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  "$type": "com.whtwnd.blog.entry",
  "theme": "github-light",
  "title": "ATProto Vancouver April 29th 2025",
  "content": "This is an example of Groundmist -- uses Ink & Switch Tiny Essay Editor, but you can login to Bluesky and publish to White Wind.\n\nWith the share URL, anyone should be able to login and edit.\n\n## Intros\n\nAndres\n* software engineer, moved to Vancouver 2 years ago\n* building stuff, what's possible\n* cross posting - Bluesky / Mastodon\n* series of accounts, post info about Venezuela\n* NorthSky contributor!\n\nNatasha\n* work in edtech at UBC\n* not contributing right now, interested\n* hear what people\n\nPeter VG\n* decentralized tech for a while\n* like the move to ATProto\n* learning it now is a good time\n* app -> hashtag counting / trending app\n\nDavid\n* open source for a long time\n* putting together a personal website - FB, goodreads, etc\n* looking ATProto, put Bluesky feed on website, maybe\n* auth system, Feathers.Cloud, will add Bluesky support\n\n  Danny\n  * believer in open standards, ATProto one\n  * built a podcast app, intro to RSS as distribution, open standards are great!\n  * stuff like ATProto for creators is good - why build subscriber base on a platform that doesn't come with you\n\n  Theo\n  * joining community\n  * what tech is emerging\n  * ATProto a few weeks ago\n  * interested in decentralized, open source\n  * see value in infra like this, attribute data\n  * Not Twitter, FB -- value in open protocols\n\nPaul\n* moved to Vancouver 10 years ago\n* originally musician\n* generative audio, web browser\n* personalize, carry around on ATProto\n* synthhash\n\nRowan\n* physics research\n* don't know much about ATProto\n* fan of open source\n\nWesley\n* working with local first, p2p, distributed web for a while\n* working on ATProto https://cosmik.network -> https://bsky.app/profile/cosmik.network\n* things are coming true! it's what got me excited, actual innovation\n* people are excited and experimenting!\n\nAnish\n* developer!\n* open source, open networks\n* in Vancouver for 2 years - came to DWeb early\n* local first, dev energy\n\nAn\n* here from Germany\n* Building SpaceHey https://spacehey.com/about\n* Intends to add both ActivityPub and ATProto Support\n* is coding it in PHP\n\n\n## Notes and Links\n\nIndieSky\n* Europe Notes https://atproto.wiki/en/working-groups/indiesky/europe-april-2025\n* Figjam (password WurstSky) https://www.figma.com/board/AlN0FlY6qyyJewC4aJey7j/Untitled?node-id=40-131&t=LKck8GjYDkTRvLpq-0\n\nNorthSky are local! https://northskysocial.com/\n* worker owned co-op, going to start with PDS hosting\n* have a graphical account migration tool they are working on\n\nGander Social https://gandersocial.ca\n* Canadian ATproto app, Boris is getting more info\n\nWeb Summit Vancouver Meetup\n* what do we want to cover?\n\nBrowsing your account data\n* using AT Proto Browser https://atproto-browser.vercel.app/\n* and PDSls https://pdsls.dev/\n* PDSls will let you apply edits, by deleting / recreating record\n\nGroundmist\n* https://editor.groundmist.xyz\n* Local first editing, you can then link with ATProto account and publish to WhtWnd\n* This post is live https://whtwnd.com/bmann.ca/3lnyr7gug7c2v (but may have local edits applied that Boris hasn't published yet)\n\nGraze\n* custom feed building https://www.graze.social/\n* has a mode where it inserts ads to pay curators\n\nDeer Social\n* https://deer.social/\n* fork of Bluesky Social App codebase -- \"client only\" (uses Bsky backend for everything)\n* has some changes applied to tweak things, Boris did a demo of setting verifiers\n\nPinkSky\n* https://pinksky.app/\n* \"instagram clone\" - re-uses Bsky post types",
  "createdAt": "2025-05-01T04:14:58.916Z",
  "visibility": "public"
}