Ok, yes, the state of the social internet is not ideal. We’re so numb to horrific violations of decency and disrespect, that we mostly accept that “this is just how it is.” But here are some thriving spaces and powerful ideas we discovered last year that give us hope for 2026 and beyond✨ 🧵👇(1/6)

If you're part of the LGBTQIA+ community fleeing TikTok and new to ATprotocol via Skylight Social, welcome! If you'd like us to host your data safely on our servers in Canada, you can sign up to migrate to our servers and keep using Skylight Social as usual! northskysocial.com/join

we are! and our current infrastructure costs are covered by our generous donors, so we're sustainable. we'll need more help as we scale and offer more services, but we'll put out more info to the community then.

If you're local to Vancouver and want to get involved in the global ATprotocol community, this is a great opportunity!

Are you an ATproto enthusiast? Planning on going to ATmosphereConf 2026 but haven't gotten your ticket yet? Consider using our referral link to pick yours up! Several co-op members of ours will be in attendance. We'd love to meet you! 🎫🔗👉 ti.to/atmosphereco... 👈💚💜

Northsky is a Non-Profit Worker-Owned Cooperative and operates from the generosity of our donors. Donations help keep our servers humming and are greatly appreciated: northskysocial.com/products/rec...

225 more invites sent out to Northsky! Excited to keep growing the community 💚💜 We'll be sending out another Newsletter soon as well to talk about plans for Phase 2!

Blacksky leading the way, as always! Congrats to the team on this amazing work! Excited to follow suit over on the Northsky side as well during Phase 2. ATproto continues to grow and evolve and thrive thanks to the hard work of the broader ATmosphere community!

Are you an ATproto enthusiast? Planning on going to ATmosphereConf 2026 but haven't gotten your ticket yet? Consider using our referral link to pick yours up! Several co-op members of ours will be in attendance. We'd love to meet you! 🎫🔗👉 ti.to/atmosphereco... 👈💚💜

E2EE came up a lot in different discussions leading to revisiting the topic. The post has been updated to elaborate why it's not feasible for a platform. tl;dr E2EE means the platform isn't a party to the conversation, we need to moderate it.

We just had to double our volume size from 100GB -> 200GB thanks to all the recent migrations! We're also at over 100+ accounts and growing! Thanks for the trust and support everyone. Excited to continue supporting the community in a variety of ways and Northsky grows 💚💜

We'll be updating our migration website and documentation, but just a heads up, don't try to use an app-password to migrate. It doesn't have the proper permissions to request a PLC token and finish validating the migration. If you hit a snag with this, reach out via our support link in bio!

Invites sent out to another 150+ waitlisters! Thanks for your patience everyone, we're improving our processes and tools and infrastructure every step of the way! Scaling slowly helps us be sustainable, and we'll keep ramping up how many folks we're taking. 💪✨

Community privacy is one of our top priorities at @transrights.northsky.social which isn't possible out of the box with any ATproto implementation today that doesn't just hide an entire PDS. We're developing in the open and so I've published a proposal on it, feedback as always is we

a big thanks to @heika.dog for helping northsky speed up our invite queue! the next few batches should be bigger and come sooner thanks to their hard work!

coming to you live from @transrights.northsky.social !

we do vetting before we send out invites, and it's such a joy going through the list and seeing corners of 2SLGBTQIA+ bluesky that i don't usually see so many cuties out there fighting for our rights, making cool art, and hyping each other up. really lovely to see after a week of rough news!

100 more invites out to Northsky waitlisters! Excited to welcome you to safer skies 💚💜

Yooooo guess who's on Northsky now! Special thanks to the @transrights.northsky.social team and @lucca.northsky.team for such a better way to handle ATP!

One of the biggest reasons I’m rooting for @transrights.northsky.social, Blacksky and other viable alternatives to U.S.-owned social media platforms is specifically to be able to exercise my right to freedom of expression in a true-to-values manner.

⌛ Time is running out! Get your #ATmosphereConf proposals submitted before the deadline on Saturday! #ATProtocol

70 more invites sent out to Northsky waitlisters!

Happy New Year from the Northsky crew! 🎉

Are you a current or future Northsky member in need of support? Get help using our form here: tally.so/r/yPN6k6 - Request an emergency migration - Report a technical or community safety issue - Suggest a feature or improvement - Ask a question not covered by our FAQs / Q&As

Northsky is a Non-Profit Worker-Owned Cooperative and operates from the generosity of our donors. Donations help keep our servers humming and are greatly appreciated: northskysocial.com/products/rec...

Are you a current or future Northsky member in need of support? Get help using our form here: tally.so/r/yPN6k6 - Request an emergency migration - Report a technical or community safety issue - Suggest a feature or improvement - Ask a question not covered by our FAQs / Q&As

If you've e-mailed or messaged us about updating your handle in preparation for receiving your invite, thank you! (you're all set, we're on it.) If you still need to notify us of a handle change, please use this form to help us keep the invite queue moving swiftly! Form link: tally.so/r/2EBKKb

50 more invites just went out! Our biggest batch yet, and we'll keep ramping up in the New Year!

🔮 if u turned away someone trans from your table today for simply being themselves die ✨

As part of preparing for #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver March 2026, we're republishing the videos from Seattle March 2025, along with transcripts. Here's @aendra.com with Supporting and growing ATProto development in 2025 and beyond (feat. @shoots.green and @transrights.northsky.social)

If you've e-mailed or messaged us about updating your handle in preparation for receiving your invite, thank you! (you're all set, we're on it.) If you still need to notify us of a handle change, please use this form to help us keep the invite queue moving swiftly! Form link: tally.so/r/2EBKKb

We encourage everyone interested in the ATprotocol ecosystem (which powers Bluesky, Blacksky, and Northsky) to attend ATmosphere Conference 2026! It'll be hosted in Vancouver Canada (like us!) in late March. Getting your ticket with this link will help Northsky send more of our members:

We've been following ongoing discussions about Northsky. We'd like to affirm that we do not support transmedicalism or any other form of identity-based discrimination. All trans people are welcome on Northsky when it launches.

We've been following ongoing discussions about Northsky. We'd like to affirm that we do not support transmedicalism or any other form of identity-based discrimination. All trans people are welcome on Northsky when it launches.

Heads up! We're sending out invite codes to our subscribers starting next week. Invites will roll out gradually and chronologically. We're excited to welcome you to safer skies! Read more about it here: northskysocial.com/posts/norths...

If you received the newsletter by email you may find a broken link to the Migration FAQ. We had to replace it due to the wrong link being sent out, here's the correct one! northsky.leaflet.pub/3m7htkaiqjc2g

Heads up! We're sending out invite codes to our subscribers starting next week. Invites will roll out gradually and chronologically. We're excited to welcome you to safer skies! Read more about it here: northskysocial.com/posts/norths...

Announcing ATmosphereConf 2026, coming to Vancouver March 26th to 29th. We've got the full announcement and future news and updates on our new site news.atmosphereconf.org/3m3cwwz4mpk2j

In 1970, a new Thanksgiving Day tradition, called Day of Mourning, began in Plymouth. A Wampanoag man named Wamsutta (Frank) James organized a demonstration to bring awareness to the concerns of the Indigenous community including the way Native people had been written about in history. 🌹

@evelyn.northsky.team talk at @eurosky.social has been published along with the others. If you missed the livestream, watch the recording to see what’s coming! #EuroskyLive #ATproto

Feedback is now CLOSED on v1 of the Community Guidelines. We are carefully considering your feedback and will have a new revision out in the coming weeks. Thank you everyone for sharing your thoughts and experiences with us!

Yesterday, on Trans Day of Remembrance, the Northsky team mourned those we've personally lost. Our friends, family, mentors, heroes, the ones who we looked up to and love.

Thank you @eurosky.social for having us!

In my keynote yesterday I made sure to highlight @rude1.blacksky.team & @blackskyweb.xyz , @transrights.northsky.social , @latinsky.social when talking about a just digital community for marginalized people. @clirnews.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/VQ-rH7A...

@transrights.northsky.social shout out by @eurosky.social #EuroskyLive

We're looking forward to @evelyn.northsky.team sharing more about Northsky and our plans for the future!

Check out NorthSky (@transrights.northsky.social) and BlackSky ( @blackskyweb.xyz ) ; they both implement the AT protocol and I think both are working to smooth out the migration process! I’m waiting for a NorthSky invite, will see how it turns out! 🎉 northskysocial.com opencollective.com/blacksky

From the @transrights.northsky.social team, @lucca.northsky.team asks for interest in a community maintained fork of the bsky social app for testing and collab. Write up in the forum, leave a comment if you’re interested.

Happy to see how sharp @transrights.northsky.social is: “No posting bigoted content including but not limited to: abelism, acephobia, biphobia, enbyphobia, homophobia, misogyny, queerphobia, racism, transphobia, whorephobia, xenophobia, islamophobia, antisemitism, or other forms of hate speech.”