Check out my new talk about... many things, including fandom's contributions to the web, the quest to get fans a space in decentralized protocols work, why it matters, and how this ties to the AtProto work I did. Featuring: beginners-friendly explanations of what all this means!

This was given to a cohort of tech people working on decentralized protocols (AtProto in the specific), so it's tailored to them, but the whole point was "look! We can explain this to regular people—(like YOU!!🫵)—so they can help!".

Explanations are at:
- Slide 19: What are protocols
- Slide 20: What (and why) is AtProto
- Slide 23-31: How PDSes help with data ownership and why they're cool
- Slide 38: What are Lexicons

Slide 54 and 55 explain *why* I spent the last two months dedicating my streams to AtProto work and what we got out of it.

I know many people here are (understandably) more interested in ActivityPub, but I swear a lot of this will be interesting and useful regardless!

...and if you do want to join some of the work described in slide 54, come to today's stream at 3PM PST on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/essentialrandomness

We'll be looking at the Events Lexicon proposal + the one for markdown notes.

Check it out here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rkSiUVI2xScNJ-QiG705aHwtCYzw5XIWJVXBHWRyfZg/edit#slide=id.p