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• meetingnotes

Quick catch up with [[Sam Gbafa]], founder of [[TinyCloud]], who I've worked with hacking on various local first / user owned data / identity stuff for a while.

He didn't make it to [[ATmosphereConf]], but is interested in [[ATProtocol]]. Like I've been telling everyone, 34M+ DID based account identities and user owned data on a [[PDS]] is a very good starting point for discovery and distribution of your apps today.

[[TinyCloud]] is working on a sovereign data protocol. It re-uses some concepts from Kepler, built at SpruceID. The core of it is a permissioned key-value store. Maybe also use [[UCAN]]? UCAN may still make it into [[ATProtocol]] at some point. Will point Sam at ATProto Private Data Working Group when that spins up.

Challenge: many people are building in this space! [[Malleable Software]], personal data, LLM agents. Which protocols do you have to build, which can you build on top of, how do you interop, what is your unique approach to the market / adoption / business model.

Some similarities to [[Tonk]], I mentioned [[User & Agents]], [[Familiar]], [[Unternet]], the [[Automerge]] work at [[Ink & Switch]], and that I share an office with [[Huge]].

A number of teams are building on top of Automerge, and are planning to adopt Brooke's new [[Keyhive]] E2EE sync + capabilities permission model, which was designed specifically to work with Automerge's CRDT model & local first.

Talked about [[Bee Computer]] as an example of cheap hardware that is linked to centralized cloud storage again.

Sam has Poaster as a side project, to go from Telegram to Twitter posting. Is going to add [[Farcaster]] and [[Bluesky]] support. I wrote this up previously as [[Threadstorm Builder]], my own ATProto to a "Knowledge Graph Notes" lexicon is what this has evolved into. From personal, multi-player, private notes, to selectively publishing microblog or full "note" sized info.

[[HOPE]] conference is coming up in NYC in mid August. Talking about an [[Unternet]] event (with Web Applets, MCP, ATProto and related) and maybe [[Causal Islands]] or similar adjacent thing and collabing on that. Will intro Sam to [[Parabl]] and [[Rudy Fraser]] in NYC.