the @newsmastfoundation.org x Bristol Cable collab that was showcased at @protocolsforpublishers.com London last night was an example of this pattern they just... did it.

Entrepreneurship isn’t for everyone, but if you’re a journalist out of work, and you think it’s for you, check out @tinynewscollective.bsky.social. We’ll help you out.

I’m not convinced the Magical Journalism Rich Person is out there but if they are do an endowment please.

At every news organization I've ever worked at, the journalism produced in the graphics and data departments, or backed by engineering resources, has outperformed "traditional" journalism by any metric.

Many friends in graphics and engineering from my time at The Washington Post were laid off today. What an unnecessary, upsetting disaster this has all been. Our news environment is worse off.

Tomorrow, we'll launch an all new experience to make collaborative growth a breeze for independent journalists. Next week, we'll launch the public beta. Join us in breaking the isolation hostile platforms have created. Reserve your username: trustfnd.com

“Mutual aid has always been about more than money. But money, shared intentionally, can be a powerful expression of solidarity. This is us building toward that future.“ Read about what’s coming with Blacksky Cash in our latest blog! blackskyweb.xyz/money-for-mu...

late night fosdem watch? (it'll be 12:30 am)

self-funded, team size one lol

If you want to lean into predictions 2 and 3, use @sill.social. If you want to lean into prediction 1, stay tuned 🤫

it's so cool when i watch a movie on netflix and then all my youtube recs are clips from that movie

So here's a short write up explaining what happened today and what I'm going through, at a high level. It does include some history too, but I tried to keep it brief.

free idea: strudel.cc on atproto

Oh damn I used this today and didn't even realize it was new! Felt natural, great new feature.

Sill is running properly again. Backfilling old data over the next 15-30 minutes.

Sill is having some issues with atproto oauth connections. Working on it, hopefully will be functional soon.

hello from did:web

here -> bsky.app/profile/bnew...

Is there a guide to setting up a did:web account somewhere? Would like to test some OAuth edge cases.

If I'm reading this right, USA Today is going to build their own vote counting operation (rather than getting results from AP, Edison or Decision Desk). I've long wondered if another news organization would take a stab at this. jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/gannet...

You can now signup directly on blento.app without having to already have an atproto/bluesky account! Powered by @selfhosted.social's PDS (thankfully didnt have to set up my own pds 🫶), pretty happy with the sign-up flow too 😊 from no account to created blento page in less than 1 minute!

Just deployed this. If you've been waiting to use @sill.social, now's your time!

Sill now has OAuth-based account creation! Here's the explanation on the new authentication flow. If you already have a Sill account, you'll now login by providing your atproto/Mastodon handle. If you don't have account, you can sign up with your handle!

Great blog, gets at one of the core problems for expanding Sill: following timelines are very hard and very expensive. unfoldingdiagrams.leaflet.pub/3mdf4b5dnms2p

Many Europeans want to be free of American and Chinese Big Tech apps. Open, decentralized protocols like ActivityPub (powering Mastodon) and AT Protocol (powering Bluesky) may be the key to a new sovereign social media infrastructure.

Today, your most-used interoperable protocols are probably smtp, delivering your email, and https, loading web pages Interoperability means you can use Gmail and Outlook, or Chrome and Firefox, to access the data that's moving over the same agreed-upon (protocol) rails ATProto does that for social

Every time someone tells me that interoperable protocols are too complicated for the average person, I point out that they use email and the web. The goal needs to be to get atproto to the point that it is just "how the internet works" and the details fade into the background like https & smtp.

Random @sill.social question I've been pondering: would people be interested in having Daily Digests in their PDS + have shareable links to digest editions?

Would love to know more about how this feed is built!

Random @sill.social question I've been pondering: would people be interested in having Daily Digests in their PDS + have shareable links to digest editions?

Working on a new onboarding process for @sill.social. You will be able to create an account directly from atproto (or Mastodon), initial syncs happen in the background, and core features are better explained. Here's a video of me getting through it in ~40 seconds.

If you are tracking breaking news, read local sources: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Leaflet is on @standard.site! A big joint effort — and we're finishing a big migration to get Leaflet records standard-site-ified :) Log in to Leaflet & you'll be migrated automatically. Read this post for details, and let us know any q's. Social publishing. Atmospheric publishing. Together!

早速 @sill.social 試してみた。 Bluesky と Mastodon に対応している、フォロー中のアカウントやフィードで話題になっているリンクをまとめて見られるサービス。 フィードごとに含めるかどうか選べたり、シェア数のしきい値、時間枠など細かく設定できて便利。シェア元のポストが表示されるのがちょっとしたコメント欄みたいになっているのもいい感じ。 sill.social

Ready to turn the discussion around building European platforms into concrete technical features? Join open source devs, media professionals, policy experts and business leaders January 30th in Brussels for a hackathon hosted by @europemedialab.bsky.social and @eurosky.social. luma.com/9f10yt6f

Bluesky runs an appview. Blacksky runs an appview. A complete appview is a several terabytes sized database of the >18 billion follows, likes and posts of all bsky users, ever and forever. To run a different appview is to make a fork in bsky’s timeline. One has new posts from Łink. One doesn’t.

Have been using @sill.social for some time now. What a great way to catch up on popular links shared by folks i follow. Just turned on the daily digest feature today. Highly recommend joining sill and linking your account here for the full experience. Would gladly pay for this service.

@dholms.at I would like to move @sill.social to a tap-based architecture, but it would take some experimentation with db structure for Sill's follow graph aggregation to be efficient. I don't want to get TBs of data in the wrong format. Is there a way to just get a week (or so) of data from tap?

“I open up @sill.social every morning to find out what events and stories my friends and folks I follow on Bluesky and Mastodon have been sharing while I’ve been sleeping and have been otherwise unplugged.” Thanks to Mita for submitting to @theverge.com's Installer! www.theverge.com/tech/863614/...

I keep seeing it without a source link, so here it is: January 16, 2026 MINNEAPOLIS LABOR UNION DELEGATION AND LOCAL REGIONAL LABOR BODIES ENDORSE JANUARY 23: DAY OF TRUTH AND FREEDOM NO WORK, SCHOOL, OR SHOPPING minneapolisunions.org/system/files...

I'm very happy with how Sill's byline detection is working out. On big live blogs, you can see just how many resources newsrooms are putting towards these things. 26 contributors!

Appreciate the attention to Sill today. Here's something of a manifesto on the project. Stop doomscrolling. blog.euphonos.studio/3lyfwrx7zn222

Does everyone know about @sill.social, the news aggregator that shows you the top links your Bluesky friends are sharing? (It's like Nuzzel, which Twitter acquired, turned into its Top Articles feature, then buried.)

One big reason I find myself favoring Bluesky over X now is that I can use Sill Social: sill.social

Excited for this!

The lesson, as always: keep telling people about the features you built, most people don't know about them.

Did you know @sill.social has dense mode?