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Paul Frazee discusses the origins and challenges of Bluesky and ATProto, focusing on decentralization and content moderation.
Paul Frazee is the CTO of Bluesky. He previously worked on the Beaker browser and the peer-to-peer social media protocol Secure Scuttlebutt. Paul discusses how Bluesky and ATProto got started, scaling up a social media site, what makes ATProto decentralized, lessons ATProto learned from previous peer-to-peer projects, and the challenges of content moderation. Episode transcript available here . My Bluesky profile . -- Related Links Bluesky ATProtocol ATProto for distributed systems engineers Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable Decentralized Social Media Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) ActivityPub Webfinger Beaker web browser Secure Scuttlebutt -- Transcript You can help correct transcripts on GitHub . [00:00:00] Jeremy: Today I am talking to Paul Frazee. He's the current CTO of bluesky, and he previously worked on other decentralized applications like Beaker and Secure Scuttlebutt. [00:00:15] Paul: Thanks for having me. What's bluesky [00:00:16] Jeremy: For people who aren't familiar with bluesky, what is it? [00:00:20] Paul: So bluesky is an open social network, simplest way to put it, designed in particular for high scale. That's kind of one of the big requirements that we had…
People in this episode
Host: Jeremy
Guest: Paul Frazee
Topics covered
- Bluesky
- ATProto
- decentralization
- content moderation
- peer-to-peer social media
Keywords
- social media
- scaling
- Secure Scuttlebutt
- Beaker browser
Mentioned in this episode
Products: Bluesky, ATProto, Beaker, Secure Scuttlebutt, Chrome, Firefox, Beaker browser
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