@werd.io on stewarding the things we care about I've gone back & forth myself on this topic (the consumer vs netizen/citizen framing) - and found this refreshing FWIW, @at.fund is my attempt to make stewardship a bit easier across atproto

better cluster names! and "find in atlas" on results

The Sovereign Tech Agency is doing something special: we invest in and support the open digital infrastructure that modern economies and societies rely on. We’re currently #hiring for several roles: - HR Generalist - Program Manager #SovereignTechFund - Executive Assistant #digitalsovereignty 1/2

Yes! And lots of folks are interested in this including @byarielm.fyi @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social @cosmik.network @lanyards.app

The first fundable labeler in my feed! Thanks for trying this out @skywatch.blue (and also for making an epically useful feed - the inline insights are incredibly useful 🙏)

My feed is getting fundable! Thanks for testing things out @brookie.blog and @desertthunder.dev 🙌

My takeaway from Atmosphere: it needs to be WAY easier for builders to get paid So I built at.fund at.fund detects the tools you use, and tells you how to fund the builders who make those tools. And if you're a builder, it takes seconds to add records to that tell your users how to fund you 👍

What a great opportunity to share my unsolicited OMG hot take: OMG & the Warsaw Uprising (which happened concurrently) were initial proxy battles in the Cold War OMG's strategic purpose was to circumvent Soviet westward expansion, more than justifying the Allies' attempt despite the risks

My love letter to the atproto community, a talk called "Feature / Product / Business" at @atmosphereconf.org. Slides: ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybei... Recording: atmosphereconf-vods.wisp.place/videos/featu...

Devs in the atproto community! I will be organizing some meetups in the near future and will be reaching out Also- don’t hesitate to reach out if you want to discuss the state and future of the ecosystem, what we’re doing with attie, or anything else. I can’t just … open my DMs but we’ll find a way

🎯 VC's predominant model has been a narrow, pseudo-monopoly play focused on a very specific set of tech & biz assumptions... which are only ~20 years old The value here is anchored in new assumptions, and the opportunity is to find new biz models to match

Democratize the things that are currently used to harvest our attention so users can design their own experiences! That's within reach!

Here's the updated "Funding Models Are Not Binary" slide from my Feature/Product/Business talk #ATmosphereConf. Turns out there are even more great examples already in the Atmosphere!

Kicked this off after being inspired by something @burrito.space said - experimenting with emulate the simplicity and modularity of @standard.site, but for contribution signaling... so it is easier for people who need to get paid to get paid Ping me with thoughts / ideas / dire portents / etc 👍

I’ve been doing design+webdev for over 10 years and I have deep expertise building and implementing design systems. if you’re looking for a design/dev hybrid to take polish and product thinking to the next level, let’s chat: ky.fyi

This is a @lucca.northsky.team appreciation post! She did a great job putting together the whole volunteer program and running things on site. Among the many many other things we had to get done ahead of the conference!

Thanks @scott.nstar.social, @casey.nstar.social, @christian.bsky.social, @chrismessina.me, and @maxengel.com for a great meal and some epic conversations last night - really appreciate each of you for joining! 🙏

RSVP to our talk! atmo.rsvp/p/julietshen...

also, @mosh.bsky.social’s presentation about navigating and understanding the differences between features, products, and businesses was incredibly practical and helpful!

So much great stuff happening - but keeping it going means business models that sustain careers Had 3 reminders today of how critical this is: @bad-example.com's breakdown of the state of infra @mosh.bsky.social 's sustainability framework talk @burrito.space's collective challenge observations

These non-technical conversations have been one of the most striking differences between the open source frontend and web tooling conferences I've attended and the open network community here at ATmosphereConf. If we really care about the long-term health of our ecosystem, we should learn from them.

Hearing the discussions at #atmosphereconf is genuinely the most hopeful experience I've had in tech in a long time

Good morning #ATmosphereConf! Jazzed for today's 10am talk on Feature / Product / Business, where I'll cover my personal stories as a builder, founder, and funder, and some frameworks and thought for building an enduring ATmosphere.

Trying to plan out my schedule for tomorrow at the Atmosphere Conference and I'm checking off pretty much every session even though the realities of time mean I can't actually be in all three tracks at once (who will make atproto fix that?). So many fascinating talks on the agenda.

Could social media make us less polarized instead of more? We tested 5 algorithms on 3 platforms with 10,000 people for 6 months during the 2024 election, and found that the answer is yes. 🧵

We are still hiring, with a more scoped job description now. We are a global, remote organization so let us know if you're interested and have relevant experience! roost.tools/infrastructu...

Hey! Looking for a full-stack job. Global remote. Contract or full-time. I build design tools and contribute to popular open-source projects. My CV: trysound.io/hire-me DM or email me at [email protected]

20k Euro prize pool for active open social projects from the past couple years. atproto app and project devs, get in there and apply!

I... really like this idea Or rather, I can see how it disarms one of the more ready introvert excuses to watch instead of participate So I like it intellectually, at least

After a long time, there's finally a new blog post. I've been working on in the past few months on a new project called Matadisco! It's about metadata discovery and publishing on #ATProto: vmx.cx/cgi-bin/blog... #FOSS4G #geo

Announcing: keytrace.dev Take your @bsky.app / @atproto.com account and connect it to your other accounts around the internet. Keytrace cryptographically verifies your connected accounts so other social apps can trust the data. Learn more: keytrace.dev/blog/introdu...

I'm linking my keytrace.dev: did:plc:rzeldxi4pe24uahas3z65wnp

Been working on an atproto UX experiment focused on user intentionality Took a self-care approach to social media, and then started plugging in ideas from across the ecosystem Very rough at the moment, but wanted to get something out before Atmosphere - any/all feedback welcome 🙌

i'm on Bluesky for the echo chamber of Good Job With Your Project, and I'm Doing This Thing Now That I Enjoy, and You Got This, and Help Me Out With This Problem I'm Having, and Isn't This Thing Pretty Cool, and Check Out This Thing I Made

In earlier eras of computing unreliable hardware forced system design discipline (checksums, retries, modularity). There is a lot of that we are rediscovering in the "Agentic Engineering" era! Wrote a small post about this idea. davidgasquez.com/reliable-unr...

Some quick observations from my time working with recruiters on reputation & provenance challenges TLDR: "The brutally adversarial nature of hiring has created an apex class of adversarial candidate" - and what we can do about it

Just tried this out... very promising so far Activity view is fun, but reminds me that I may need to bifurcate my operational identifiers on bsky. Not sure how much I want my film taste (via @popfeed.social 😎) also factoring in to employment decisions But that's on me; well done @sifa.id 👏

Often I see a conversation and think, "I bet everyone would be really interested to hear how our assumptions about this topic originate in social transitions during the 15th and 16th century" And then I remember that, no, they will not be interested But I'm interested

I've realized I've been telling PDS admins how they can tackle these spam accounts from being created on their PDS, but just realized I never explained that as the end user, YOU can also hide them from your views with @skywatch.blue. Wrote how below.

mutuals == consent to archive clusters of mutuals == p2p archive mesh prototyped here. non destructive, just posts+saves. tangled.org/burrito.spac...

There are two types of people who know a lot about war - those who glorify it and those who study it to try to have it happen less, like an oncologist studying cancer. Edgelords and students. X kept the former, the latter moved over here.

“If we care about the First Amendment in practice, we must also care about the architecture that shapes and facilitates speech in our own era. That’s why we believe atproto was worth investing in.”

Last April, we raised $100M in Series B funding. This round gives us the ability to scale our team to meet the rapid growth of Bluesky and the AT Protocol. Read more: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

This is cool: european-alternatives.eu/alternatives...

> protocol design choices do not merely leave governance unaddressed but actively shape it, because every architectural decision makes some governance arrangements natural and others difficult or impossible

Some time ago, one of the VC talking heads said something to the effect, "Don't say 'thank you' to LLMs, it wastes tokens" And I've been obsequiously polite ever since

Yay, irony!

Related - for years I've wanted to build a simple message validator that filters ALL my comms channels: if I haven't pre-auth'd you, I'll only get your message if you send it with confirmation of $50 (per message) deposited to an EOA of my choice Filed under "grumpy old man"

As atproto matures, adversarial actors will reveal all the places where trust is implicit rather than managed - maybe time to build reputation mechanisms for PDSs like we do for email servers? It'll likely need to be default-block/prove-healthy, or default throttle until proven typical?

Finally doing some building - so if things get funky as I test from my primary account, that's why, and I'll have no one to blame but myself.