And it's being built before our eyes.
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A typical morning for me when I open my phone and navigate to Bluesky's For You feed, developed by a user and run on his gaming PC:
My friends in the Eurosky team announces the first migrations to @Eurosky hosting. Hopefully my invite is on the way. Register at https://www.eurosky.tech/
The Margin and Symbol teams announced that they're now interoperable: "Your Margin bookmarks now show up directly on Semble" .
Someone I never heard of called TreeThought just made it possible to publish your Obsidian notes to the Atmosphere using standard.site, a long-form publishing approach developed cooperatively by three separate teams - Offprint, Leaflet, and pckt.blog - a few weeks ago. You can also browse your subscribed publications and clip them to your Obsidian notes, which is simply a folder of text files on your PC which you can sync between all your devices without being locked in. Download & install! https://github.com/treethought/obsidian-atmosphere
Meanwhile Leaflet are crowdsourcing ideas for premium options, which will almost certainly be a major topic of conversation at the conference session on Atmospheric Publishing they are preparing for Vancouver next month, while pckt.blog announced a new tool for migrating your Atmosphere blog from WhiteWind (the first long-form blogging tool on the Atmosphere) to standard.site (which Ewan, showing the cooperative spirit of the place, recommended it over his own). Meanwhile Dan demoed a new publishing interface which even he cannot completely explain.
I'll be in Vancouver, too, particularly for the ATProto.science day, where the keynote speakers will be some of the leading voices in open science. Speaking of which, another app just launched yesterday, after a chap called Andreas "Went to an ATProto meetup, got inspired, built a thing! Octosphere is an experimental bridge between www.octopus.ac and the Atmosphere, turning your Octopus research into distributed records that others can react to, respond to and build on". https://andreasthinks.me/posts/octosphere/octosphere.html
(This is not limited to cephalopod research by the way - Octopus is a reimagination of scientific publishing in a modular and open form, developed with the funding of the British government's research funding body).
Trying to document all of this in real-time, a couple of recent blog posts set out the long-term potential of this cooperative energy:
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