One year of this. One year ago I deleted all my Meta accounts, and put my X account into a deep freeze (5 posts in 12 months). I haven't missed them. If you or your organisation is having trouble taking the step, read this: mathewlowry.medium.com/x-strategy-o...

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ActivityPub is getting its first formal update path since 2018. I wrote about why this matters, how this leads to some strange and funny power dynamics, and about who actually participate connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

STREAMPLACE v0.9.1 is live now!!! Two big features: 1. Teleportation! This is Streamplace's take on "raiding" or "hosting". When you're wrapping up your stream, type /teleport user.example.com in chat and send your viewers over to someone else!

Sigh, time to break my own rule: Morning update from America, and it's Make-A-Wish President.

100% this. I remember that launch - I was just starting a 6y "hot hands" stint I've never equalled since. The ATmosphere energy today is on a similar level, but less naiveté-infused.

Yep that's a good summary. Hope it's all clear to everyone now.

Looking to set your next conference ON FIRE?!? Look no further. PS We need this for Vancouver, @atproto.science - just need the phones to stream their matches via @stream.place.

Today's obsession will be to just turn audio On for all of the media on this page and just let it play on loop art.at.aesthetic.computer

Even a small grant could help unlock a lot more atproto.science! (Full disclosure: the good news is that you might end up helping send me to Canada. The bad news is that I'll come straight back! 😎😎😎)

We already have several speakers and volunteers in need of travel support to attend #ATScience - if you’re able to pitch in with event sponsorship, please be in touch with us here or [email protected]! Tons of great energy swirling around ATScience, let’s make it the best possible for everyone!

We’re partnering with @europemedialab.bsky.social For Stars4Media Day XII – Democracy infrastructures: European platforms & Eastern correspondents. Main point of the agenda are Trusted European Platforms, a new framework for sovereign, reliable and open digital spaces.

Journalists often go on hand-fed ride-alongs with agents. Seldom, though, do they get into the cars of everyday people protecting their communities from those same agents. We just did exactly that, in ICE-occupied Minneapolis:

Putting a childporn-generating stochastic parrot fine-tuned on the ketamine-fuelled ravings of the world's richest Nazi in charge of European defense does not seem... great?

Announcing @modalfoundation.bsky.social, a nonprofit making open social tech viable at scale. Modal will connect experts, strategists, builders and communities to create a human-centered internet. The foundation will oversee @freeourfeeds.com, @eurosky.social and more to come. modalfoundation.org

If people quit X for any reason I'm gonna have to rebuild my network somewhere else, but I'm a has-been hack so for the love of God please stay.

My hub contains tagged notes on almost 4000 online resources I Like, Do or Think (myhub.ai/@mathewlowry/). Surely if I stored all that in my PDS I could use it to create an absolutely amazing custom feed?

THREAD The first full year of tracking research on @bsky.app Hi, we are Altmetric, and we track how research is communicated across the web. We now have one full calendar year of Bluesky research data and thought we'd have a looksie.

Quick question: is anyone developing collaborative block/mute lists, that can be managed collectively by a community? I saw @listsky.bsky.social, but I need something normal people can use without having to learn git. github.com/instantiator...

Good pattern, in an eye-opening thread on American justice.

On a Claude Code learning programme at the moment. I'm not a developer, but it's mind blowing anyway, given "what developers use today, everyone else will use tomorrow" will likely happen, simply because creating tomorrow's tools is now so easy.

Tim Davie says BBC will stay on X to try to stem ‘flood’ of global misinformation www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Excited to announce that @sjgreenwood.bsky.social will be at #ATScience presenting their work on the beloved @paper-feed.bsky.social , experiments on self-hosted feeds (in collaboration with @graze.social @aendra.com) and observational analyses of social media on #atproto! Looking forward to it! 🎉

I just poked @schuman.de with demo.atpoke.xyz. Happy new year, BJ!

Exciting to see our first speaker proposals coming in for #ATScience 2026! ✨ We’d love to hear yours too, so please submit your idea at forms.atproto.science/atscience26-... 🗳️ The call for proposals closes at the end of January - we’ll review and notify speakers on a rolling basis.

Rad vision for future of @atproto.science just dropped #ATScience

What just happened ... Comedy: Jamie Kaler

Days like this make me thankful for having returned to make Europe my home.

2026 Prediction: ATprotocol breaks 200m users and enters the “then they fight you” phase of adoption

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Motive + Opportunity + Ability = ?

Wow, I wonder how that happened.

Having a quiet end of the year, looking forward to 2026. My most-used words in 2025 were: 1. "morning" (88×) 2. "update" (66×) 3. "atmosphere" (60×) 4. "content" (52×) 5. "those" (46×) ..

Oh my god Mike F. died. One of the best. Rest in peace man.

Yo what the fuck short form videos are bad Short-Form Videos Degrade Our Capacity to Retain Intentions arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03714 Ht: HowTown

Tell me you know nothing of Europe without saying you know nothing of Europe. Quite a take.

Oh God I followed this bot, what on earth is it going to say, given I haven't given it anything to work with, save that I followed it.

I have been experimenting with a feed that shows your posts on this day on previous years. If anyone wants to have a look and let me know if it works for them, I would love the feedback!

wow - I imported my goodreads playlist to @bookhive.buzz ... And i see them on @popfeed.social 😍 atproto apps work together, pretty neat!

Can someone explain why this ice is not flat?

What did we get stuck in our rectums last year? defector.com/what-did-we-...

Glad to see mobile roaming is still a thing in #EUcomms, 20y after one of the more challenging builds I've faced.

labellers need a precrime API where they can warn you if your post is gonna get labelled before the post goes through

When I was in Berlin I spoke about how 3 sectors - news, science & government - can best use Bluesky and #atproto. But the feedback was almost exclusively about #ATscience. And so...

To clear the air here, because I am getting a lot of questions and feedback on this, we are cooked. Here is why:

Last night's failure to agree on giving Russia's frozen assets to Ukraine was a bad look for the EU. But the Plan B that they came up with, #EurobondsForUkraine, could actually be better because: 1. Money arrives faster 2. It's legally unquestionable 3. It can be done again

"Fuckin Aussies!" The secret's out, I guess. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCGU...

When people ask us "well, what's so special about Bluesky anyway?", we now have this to show in response.

I haven't watched this episode yet, but this is such a great podcast series I can only recommend it - I learn so much from each episode.

Very happy to add @aendra.com to the speaker list for #PfP✨London 🎉🎉🎉 Pre-registration is open now: protocolsforpublishers.com/london-2026/