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Chef's kiss (as usual).

@gandersocial.ca and @eurosky.social getting closer isn’t interesting because ATProto suddenly discovered interoperability. It didn’t. What’s interesting is two distinct communities deciding how they want to use it while keeping their own infrastructure, moderation and identity.

jasonbutterfield.offprint.appAnd Then the Networks Started TalkingGander, Eurosky, and interoperability is coming

Caesar

@caesar.dev

@gandersocial.ca I'm very curious about what will be involved in this connection. Will Gander open up to the public Atmosphere, meaning that not just Eurosky but also users on Bluesky, Blacksky, Northsky, W Social, or their own self-hosted PDS will also be able to see and interact with Gander users?

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Caesar

@caesar.dev

20 Sept

Or will there be some kind of custom connection with Eurosky where Eurosky / Mu has access to your private offline ATProto network? I'm hoping it's the former because I'm a champion of the open social web, but either option sounds interesting. Looking forward to it!

Caesar

@caesar.dev

20 Sept

Side note: the former option would also enable Gander users to use their accounts across the rest of the Atmosphere, with apps like @pckt.blog, @leaflet.pub, @sifa.id, etc – which would surely be a great improvement for your users.

Gander Social

@gandersocial.ca

It sure would. And we are avidly following a lot of that work. The intention is to be fully interoperable (development started on that this week). We've always designed Gander in such a way that we can introduce interoperability. Most likely it will be a staged process as we sort through things.

Gander Social

@gandersocial.ca

There are also a quite a few considerations for us from the sovereignty and moderation side of things -- make sure folks know before they are posting outside of Gander, consuming content we haven't moderated etc. And probably a bunch of both cool and challenging things we haven't thought of yet.