Hey folks! Stoked to see so much excitement around building communities in the Atmosphere & thanks @baldemo.to for pulling this group together.
I’ve had good convos with the folks from Blacksky, Northsky, Roomy & Habitat among others who are working on their own takes on permissioned data. Keep reaching out about what’s working for you and I’ll continue to do the same!
In addition to the low-level protocol bits, Bluesky’s going to be working on a community feature for the app in the coming months, and we really want those communities to be interoperable across the atmosphere/web. There’s several parts to making communities work in the Atmosphere: the actual data protocol, governance/membership models, schemas/application semantics, and more.
I think we’ll want to strike the balance between being completely generic & overly Bluesky-specific. It may end up looking something like standard.site schemas for open communities.
Keep me updated on the working group! We’re interested in contributing and seeing if we can get something nailed down!