[Discussion] What would help folks to see standardized? What are you itching to have answers on?

[brittanyellich.com]

Hi! Excited to see these conversations getting going I wanted to chime in here as I’m getting back up to speed after getting into a new gig (at Bluesky!)

I originally created OpenSocial with the intention of trying to understand how interoperable/cross-app communities could work in ATProto, and also with the plan to move some of the community structures onto permissioned data once it was ready. I think this is a really exciting space that could lead to some very cool apps!

@zicklag.dev

I think the most pressing use-case from my perspective, where standardization feels important, is having a way for other apps to understand and contribute to a community from different applications.

Like I want you to be able to create an organization or community in one app, and then be able to log into another app that will also be able to recognize it and allow you to manage the community, as appropriate, in the new app too.

I’m in agreement with Zicklag here; this seems like a thing that’s worth coming up with a standard on just so that we can clearly understand from the app development side what is a community, when it should be rendered, and how different apps interoperate with a single community. I’m not personally on the Bluesky app team, but am gonna be spending some time with the Bluesky app crew to gather hard requirements from the Bluesky app side, and am also curious what this may end up looking like from the perspective of OpenSocial.

Would anyone be up to a call or stream some time next week to chat through it a bit more? It’d be great to get together and share each of our requirements so we can start to understand what this will end up looking like!