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DWeb Meetup — Bluesky & Beyond
February 19, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm GMT
Join us for a virtual meetup where we will discuss Bluesky, AT Protocol, and the future of decentralized social media.
In 2019, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, posted a series of tweets announcing that the company was funding a small team of researchers to “develop an open and decentralized standard for social media”. Now fast forward 5 years later — that project is now known as AT Protocol, better known by Bluesky, the social network that is the first implementation of the protocol. Bluesky has now surpassed 30 million users worldwide, as users have quit Twitter in droves over the policies enforced by its billionaire owner.
One of the promises of Bluesky is that anyone can build a competing platform using the Authenticated Transfer (AT) Protocol. So even if Bluesky were to be compromised in some way, the protocol promises to allow users to easily move their data and identity to other competing services.
So what would it take to create an alternative social network to Bluesky?
There’s at least one major effort to do just that. Free Our Feeds is a new multi-stakeholder foundation working to build an entire ecosystem of interconnected apps and services that would not be controlled by any one company or organization.
Join us at our next virtual meetup on February 19, 2025 11:30am PT to discuss Bluesky, AT Protocol, and efforts to build an open, interoperable ecosystem of social networks.
SPEAKERS
- Mallory Knodel, Social Web Foundation
- Bryan Newbold, Bluesky
- Boris Mann, ATMosphere Conference
