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Ronen Tamari

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Researcher & entrepreneur | Building a collective sensemaking layer for research @cosmik.network | Stigmergic cognition | https://ronentk.me/ | Prev- Open Science Fellow @asterainstitute.bsky.social

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · Aug 15

1/ 📢 @cosmik.network has been awarded $1M in grant funding by Open Philanthropy and @asterainstitute.bsky.social These generous grants will support our development of Semble - a social "micro-knowledge" network for researchers on Bluesky/ATProto. Think Are.na + Goodreads for research!

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 1h

source - openai.com/index/introd...

Introducing OpenAI

OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to g...

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 2h

Totally! Related research - bsky.app/profile/rone...

Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 4d

V interesting twist on MCP! “user data is often fragmented across services and locked into specific providers, reinforcing user lock-in” - enter Human Context Protocol (HCP): “user-owned repositories of preferences designed for active, reflective control and consent-based sharing.” 1/

Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 2h

How it started:
"Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return." (Introducing OpenAI blog post, 2015)

How it's going:

The Verge @theverge.com · 9h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 2h

Make history and be part of the first ATProto x Boston meetup 😁
Details coming soon ...

ATProto Boston @atproto.boston · 2h

Hey wanna get a beer?

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 9h

@roomy.space @erlend.sh working on something in this space

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 18h

Infrastructure x Democracy — what could be more interesting? I'm very excited to be moderating this panel!

Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social · 18h

🗳️ Don't miss "The Future of Democracy" conference organized by @openmarkets.bsky.social and @article19.bsky.social. Tomorrow we will speak at the "Role of digital infrastructure in strengthening EU democracy" panel at 15:00 CEST.
Full program: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI — Open Markets Institute

Join The Open Markets Institute and ARTICLE 19 on October 15th & 16th for a convening of high-level leading thinkers, lawmakers, technologists, and advocates to discuss the direct and growing…

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Torsten Goerke @tgoerke.bsky.social · 1d

Last Friday, members of eurosky.social and the ATProto x Science Community met for a brief meeting. We explored the overlaps between these two initiatives and the people involved.

Meeting notes: discourse.atprotocol.community/t/meeting-no...

Meeting notes: eurosky.social x atproto x science

eurosky.social x atproto x science @tgoerke.bsky.social Scheduled 10 October 2025 08:00 am EDT ATProto Science is about using ATProto for science applications, such as publishing, curation, data s...

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 1d

it's all research lol
tbh I like how arena calls it - "a mindful space where you can work through any project over time. It's a place to structure your ideas and build new forms of knowledge together."

www.are.na/about

About | Are.na

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 1d

Yes! We're kinda building are.na on ATProto with Semble.so , would be epic to interoperate with them if they ported over to here

Semble | A social knowledge network for researchers

Follow your peers' research trails. Surface and discover new connections. Built on ATProto so you own your data.

Semble.so

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 1d

We discuss this a lot @cosmik.network + @bmann.ca , an important one feels like bsky independent IDs - from convos with scientists on Twitter I get the sense that they like the decentralized/open social ideas but bsky has a specific political connotation that keeps them away

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brendan @schlage.town · 1d

atmospheric attractor acceleration assembly:

if you could spend time and/or $ in new ways to accelerate migration from twitter to bluesky (+ github to tangled, substack to leaflet, etc!) what would you try?

experiments, incentives, rhetorical strategies? drop your wildest ideas; let's try em!

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dan @danabra.mov · 1d

ok this is really fun, i got pdsfs running locally, and now i can browse my atproto repository in Finder

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 1d

yep and I think we'll start seeing lots more examples in the ATProto ecosystem

Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 1d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat...

The Cathedral and the Bazaar - Wikipedia

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 1d

reading our thoughts lol
bsky.app/profile/moja...

Nighthaven⛺︎ @moja.blue · 1d

Being a Twitter alternative is a structural trap. You inherit the same moderation nightmares. Academic platforms (arXiv-style) could be your killer app—self-selecting communities, existing norms, reputation economy. Prove the protocol works, then expand. Stop fighting Twitter's war.

Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 1d

100%
And also building new ATProto science tools and services that Twitter won't be able to provide with in the first place.

Feels like playing the longer game, "bazaar" wins out longer term vs "cathedral"

Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 1d

This is cool! Curious, how do are you detecting them?

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dan @danabra.mov · 2d

til there’s a word for this

Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 2d

IMO ATProto will really succeed if it can unlock a new coopetitive landscape
"competing entities work together toward a common goal or share resources while still maintaining competitive interests in other areas"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coopeti...

Coopetition - Wikipedia

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 2d

Working on this @cosmik.network - semble.so ! Would be fun to chat and compare notes, we've been focused more on the research use cases but are interested in broader applications too

Semble | A social knowledge network for researchers

Follow your peers' research trails. Surface and discover new connections. Built on ATProto so you own your data.

semble.so

Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 2d

Coopetition - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 2d

I still can't believe they raised $150M ... techcrunch.com/2024/05/21/f...

Farcaster, a crypto-based social network, raised $150M with just 80K daily users | TechCrunch

Farcaster, a blockchain-based social protocol founded by two Coinbase alumni, announced on Tuesday that it closed a $150 million fundraise. Led by

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Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · 4d

I can't even explain why I like @leaflet.pub so much but I really do, and now it's open source (on an open source open sourcing tool) and man that is cool

@leaflet.pub/leaflet

a tool for shared writing and social publishing

tangled.org

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 4d

also interesting re collective bargaining @nickmvincent.bsky.social

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 4d

h/t @mbakker.bsky.social
link to paper - miba.dev/assets/publi... 3/3

miba.dev

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 4d

Bluesky/ATProto could be a great way to implement this and to address the ecosystem adoption challenge (esp once they support private data on PDSes @bmann.ca ) 2/

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