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A world without Caesars: How the ATProto community is rebuilding the web to return power to the people


The first in-person gathering devoted to those building with the AT Protocol — which powers Bluesky — was held in Seattle.

Kicking off the event, Blaine Cook, the co-author of the OAuth standard and protocol WebFinger, and former lead developer at Twitter, spoke of his time at the social network that’s now called X. Speakers at the event contributed their specific expertise, whether that was addressing the challenges around online communication, finding pathways to funding, or even experimenting with wild ideas, like running Bluesky on a Raspberry Pi single-board computer. Image Credits: TechCrunchAt a time when much of tech is unwinding its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the interest of catering to the Trump administration’s policies, Kissane’s advice went in the opposite direction.

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