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• Tailscale Up - San Francisco, CA - August 26
• Devopsdays - Portland, OR - September 8-10. Get 20% off tickets with FAFOFM
• Edgecase - Gooiland Hilversum, NL - September 24
• Taloscon - Amsterdam, NL - October 15-16
• KCD UK - Edinburgh - October 19
• Kubecon NA - Salt Lake City, UT - November 9-12

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The AT protocol has a fundamental different design than other social networks. There are no siloed instances and every user is associated with their own domain. As Dan likes to put it, a Personal Data Server (PDS) is more like a filesystem for your personal activity. Apps that read those files can read one type of file or many types. User identity lives outside of any one app and we go deep into it on this episode.

Show notes:

• Anisota - A different approach to browsing social media
• FAFOFM Guests starter pack
• Dan’s blog

• (00:00) - Introduction and guest setup
• (01:15) - Dan’s background with Blue Sky
• (06:14) - What at protocol is built on
• (12:52) - Why at protocol matters
• (17:26) - At protocol vs. ActivityPub
• (22:31) - Identity, portability, and lock-in
• (30:37) - Public data, scraping, and AI
• (41:41) - Moderation, forks, and the future of AT protocol

Some of you might know David as a co-founder of Tailscale. In this episode we're talking about a new kind of cloud he's building at exe.dev. The SSH-only interface is a breath of fresh air compared to the monstrocity that the AWS console has become. We dive deep into why the cloud needs a reset and how integrating AI can be more than just a chat bot.

• David Crawshaw on Bluesky
• exe.dev
• exe.dev Discond community

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If you've ever heard code is an expression of free speech you have Cindy Cohn to thank. Her decades of work in courtrooms and at the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been keeping Open Source, open and private communications, private. We got to chat about her new book Privacy's Defender and take a look at the future by hearing stories from the past.

• Privacy's Defender book
• Cindy's SCaLE keynote