Welcome to “I’m an independent software researcher” land. 

The joke related to this is that it’s code for underemployed. 

I also have trouble answering this right now. Mission wise, I might say I’m working on tools for human agency over technology.

But hey - you can literally practice different one liners for each person you meet.

Are you going to join us in Vancouver in March for ATmosphereConf? 

Yes. You are 100% correct on brew.

Was interesting to see brew mentioned in the not-a-distro called Workbench by Caligra 

https://semble.so/url?id=https://caligra.com/workbench/

Thank you for writing this Tessa. Very moving for me. I hope the community can help support you in what you’re doing - it’s important and your voice and experience are important and welcomed. 

Congrats on launch! 

That was me logged in, need to file that as feedback to the Leaflet team: that I can’t tell what account I’m logged in with. 

The AT Community Fund has to date done $2-5K and smaller in grants and is designed for things that can benefit the whole community, not app funding. 

A couple of other thoughts:

I would want to see users first. That’s the hard part!

Crowdfunding can work, any admin costs are just part of the calculation of using such a platform. You need an engaged community and the marketing of a raise is work itself that a project needs to have the right skill sets for.

You don’t need to figure it out up front, but having an idea of what the revenue model is going to be is important. 

Different types of funders are going to look for different things. A question I would ask is: what would make this your full time job? (I think 1/day week might be enough for code, but marketing and community work has to fit in too).

A lot of ATProto projects are in the same boat of very small numbers of users. Product adoption is the hard part!

Voted for footnotes for my tech blog. Image galleries for my personal blog. Smoke signals for my ATProto ;)

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this! 

Client apps like yours can guide users to different systems in many ways and experiment with other features. 

Thank you for building!

As mentioned - a PDS action should mostly only be for illegal content or infrastructure abuse. A user can backup and store rotation keys separately. 

I read the Japanese version. Thank you for sharing this!

Thanks for collecting these! Going off to make some Bandcamp purchases. 

Yeah I think doing a markdown renderer would be interesting - Ghost’s block editor has both HTML and Markdown blocks I think?

But also that needs a strong use case. 

Only one I can think of is an Obsidian plugin which publishes / syncs posts where the Leaflet content would just be one big Markdown block. 

Does Ghost actually use Article type? Which as AFAIK doesn’t display in Mastodon?

One note: I think the variable should be PDS_CRAWLERS, plural!

Leaving a comment!

Also should put in the transcript as content for video. I feel like Jerry actually sent me some that I totally forgot about. 

The graph is “just” because of the layout algorithm used! It’s super basic and not very good at all, basically hand rolled for Jekyll. 

Yes Cosmik intends to be broadly usable by all and then add some special features for academia. 

Hmm. Reaching out to beehiiv for ATProto integration?

I met with a bunch of folks interested in knowledge graphs on ATproto. Maybe a Lexicon, I’ve been using “KGnotes” as a placeholder. 

More second brain notes, main thing would be an AppView that shows links / back links between ATProto elements. 

Leaflet has a lot of the pieces - links between DIDs from comments like this one, quotes. Between pubs would be the one to crawl. 

You apparently can’t quote comments so I just went ahead and made another leaflet https://atproto.leaflet.pub/3lxecysdkfs22

Super fun to realize that Phil switched microcosm updates to Leaflet as well https://updates.microcosm.blue/3lw5wc2nkw22t

Woot! Great write up, thanks for capturing viiibbbeesss. And bringing them!