Position papers, technical arguments, and thinking on authorship infrastructure, open protocol design, and what the open social web is becoming.
Every day, millions of people create online. They build worlds, write music, design games, tell stories, run competitions. And every day, the platforms those works live on can shut down, change the rules, or simply disappear. The Ptah Protocol asks a different question: what if the work belonged to the people who made it?
Read →The ATProto ecosystem has grown rapidly since federation opened in February 2024, reaching over 30 million accounts. Yet no one has defined a protocol layer for creative authorship, attribution, and rights. This paper argues that gap should be filled at the protocol layer — as open, shared Lexicon schemas — rather than at the application layer, where fragmentation and lock-in are the predictable outcomes.
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