org.latha.gathering
Samples
4 randomly sampled records from the AT Protocol firehose
org.latha.gathering (3 samples)
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"handle": "pdx.atproto.camp"
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"handle": "katexcellence.io"
},
{
"did": "did:plc:ngpm2aw64djasat7kjognnye",
"handle": "pdx.atproto.camp"
}
],
"description": "Social infrastructure. Unconference format distributes authority."
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"handle": "ungoldman.com"
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"handle": "xan.lol"
}
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"description": "Systems thinking, civic infrastructure, indie web/a11y/digital independence."
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"handle": "jason.energy"
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{
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"handle": "brittanyellich.com"
}
],
"description": "Physical infrastructure (venue), protocol building (OpenSocial), community amplification."
},
{
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"type": "degrowth-alignment",
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"handle": "nandi.latha.org"
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"handle": "brittanyellich.com"
},
"description": "Direct Tier 1 in degrowth network. Environmental health to data centre material analysis; community governance to commons governance."
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"handle": "graham.systems"
},
"description": "130+ ATProto collections. Cistern as convivial tool (privacy-by-design). Trinkets as cosmolocal production."
},
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"handle": "nandi.latha.org"
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"handle": "xan.lol"
},
"description": "Indie web + a11y + digital independence + privacy = direct alignment with Illich's conviviality."
},
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"source": {
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"handle": "nandi.latha.org"
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"target": {
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"handle": "ungoldman.com"
},
"description": "Transit planning as civic infrastructure. Reluctant technologist aligns with degrowth critique. Community organizing background."
}
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"The meetup represents a dense microcosm of the ATProto ecosystem across physical, protocol, community, intellectual, content, and civic infrastructure.",
"The group's framing -- the internet belongs to The People and not the oligarchs -- and unconference format connect to the degrowth/conviviality framework.",
"4/15 = 27% offline attendees. Healthy ratio -- meetup reaches beyond the developer bubble."
]
},
{
"gaps": "ATProto solves the data sovereignty and interoperability problems but does not address the material limits of computing (energy, water, minerals, e-waste). The network possesses the technical infrastructure for convivial tools but lacks the political vocabulary to name what it is building as degrowth/convivial technology. It talks about interoperability but not conviviality, permissioned spaces but not commons governance, self-hosted but not decentralized degrowth.",
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{
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{
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{
"feature": "not addressed",
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{
"feature": "not addressed",
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{
"feature": "not addressed",
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"principle": "deautomatisation"
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"handle": "pdx.atproto.camp"
}
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{
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"handle": "jason.energy"
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}
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"handle": "ungoldman.com"
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}
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"role": "org.latha.gathering#host",
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"game-dev"
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"digital-independence",
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"role": "org.latha.gathering#participant",
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"handle": "ungoldman.com",
"displayName": "Nate Goldman"
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"region": "OR",
"address": "1551 SE Poplar Ave",
"country": "US",
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}
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}did:plc:ngokl2gnmpbvuvrfckja3g7p | at://did:plc:ngokl2gnmpbvuvrfckja3g7p/org.latha.gathering/3mkdvt6ljja2e
community.lexicon.location.address (nested within org.latha.gathering) (1 sample)
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"handle": "pdx.atproto.camp"
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