Permissioned Data Diary 2: Buckets

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Interesting ideas in this series working towards private data in ATProto. I understand in prior discussion on collaboration in the rs spec, there hasn’t been a conclusive answer/direction or maybe it’s out of scope. I think some of these metaphors are useful and maybe can be a source of ideas.

These are roughly ordered by complexity. Personal data is simple, it’s just you, your PDS, and maybe an application or two acting on your behalf. Gated content is one-to-many with a clear gatekeeper. Social sharing introduces some dynamism around who is able to view your stuff, how they interact with it, and who can see their interactions.

Groups are many-to-many. They have dynamic membership - people join & leave, admins change, ownership of the group changes. Many users are contributing content to a shared context. Users in these groups may want to view their groups in any number of different apps.

My hunch is that if we can design a system that works for groups, the simpler modalities will fall out naturally. Groups force you to confront the hardest questions about ownership, membership, and access control. So that’s the modality I’ll focus on in this post

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Thanks for sharing, I it’s the first time reading about ATProto, really sounds like an extension or a more complex remotestorage. In particular I’d be interested in using it for letting people comment on other websites, sharing feedback.

Or this other idea I’ve been thinking a lot about would be sharing llm access with other people in BYOK apps as a current problem I see that open source AI apps are pretty inaccessible to non technical folks (they would have to create their own AI key).

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I think of it so far as a global view of different relays, maybe like nostr but if there are somewhat centralized aggregation nodes added to make things more efficient. I like that you can take nearly 100% of your data with you, but it’s all public and as described in the blog post there isn’t yet a solution for private data. I would personally prefer having a “quiet corner” (like remoteStorage) to do stuff with personal data, and use ATProto when I want community-oriented possibilities.