Sociotechnologist, activist. First employee @ Twitter, built that and pioneered social decentralization, created OAuth. Shy cloud-observer, mostly. Building Roundabout for local communities at @newpublic.org.
A response to Bluesky's User Intents proposal: instead of prescribing a fixed set of intent categories, treat them as living data and use panproto lenses to map between the vocabularies that different communities will inevitably create.
Announcing alf, the atproto Latency Fabric for all your draft and scheduled post needs.
Wherein I [try to] answer a seemingly straightforward question: "WTF is OAuth, anyhow?"