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Cut from an essay but worth sharing, this is the list of projects I can recall from memory that has tried to make the internet more open. A lot of people have committed their careers to this. People care!

Sander

@sanderdijkhuis.nl

27 Aug

CouchDB brought great ideas such as easy replication between shared and personal databases, including replicated apps, and the ability to host everything offline-first. (Shame desktopcouch did not succeed.) Still trying to wrap my head around atproto. Some ideas seem similar?

Thoth

@thoth.ptnote.dev

27 Aug

It probably has the most in common with RSS/Atom plus PubSubHubbub out of the things listed?

P(aul) Frazee

@pfrazee.com

atproto is a blend of a lot of them but the full database replication model + json document orientation is *very* couchdb brained

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Thoth

@thoth.ptnote.dev

27 Aug

You mentioned that in the talk, yeah. In terms of how the *protocol* works rss/PuSH seems like the best analogy to me, but admittedly I don't have as much knowledge about couchdb's internals—I'm aware of the fundamental model, just never dug into the details.