the Bluesky design research team wants to talk with people who are interested in building communities. if that's you, submit this form! your voice will help shape what we build. docs.google.com/forms/d/1ej6...

Nintendo Direct is scheduled for tomorrow (June 9th) at 7 AM PT

Atlus officially announced Persona 6. It's coming to PS5, Xbox Series and PC. No release date.

so it turns out the new papal encyclical has a pretty good diagnosis of why the fediverse and the atmosphere keep struggling to govern themselves. guess were doing catholic theology in a protocol blog now connectedplaces.online/reports/fr16...

In the latest version of TOKIMEKI, I’ve added columns for the standard.site post feed and the mochott following timeline! I’ve already far surpassed the Twe*tDeck Bluesky Edition and are aiming for a multidimensional, multi-column layout that integrates Atmosphere!! tokimeki.blue

time is a flat circle, ive been on here since april 2024 and this happens like every six months

seems like we're due for a fresh round of "bluesky is dying / bluesky was mean to me"

I wanna see Popfeed feeds, Tangled feeds, Standard.site feeds, event feeds, link feeds, etc, etc. This should make it easier to adopt the same patterns across all, and empower feed generator platforms like @graze.social support non-bluesky lexicons.

NEW PROJECT FROM ME for #AtmosphereConf remote viewers! This is a web app (and PWA for mobile) that lets you see all 3 streams in one place, with a realtime #AtmosphereConf feed (from @atmosphereconf.org) embedded. atmoco.pages.dev

Anyway, cooking on it

here it is folks! lots of details to still nail down, but this is roughly where our heads are at for the design of a permissioned data protocol give it a read and let me know your thoughts!

Some very exciting news - it looks like the working group for AT Protocol at the IETF has been approved! (though not formalized in the datatracker just yet) This is a big milestone in the standards process. But is also just the start of the actual process - years of meetings & work ahead!

Wow about to hit 4k followers 👀 Want to do us a solid and tell friends about Leaflet? Maybe… "If you like open social publishing, you're gonna love Leaflet!" "Finally, a great blogging tool + an open network…time to ditch Substack!" …or y'know something to that effect :) Thanks, appreciate y'all!

The old guard tries to play the old way, but realizes the game they once played is no longer playable because of the rules they helped write. We'll be playing with our own building blocks over here. Good luck with all that.

continuing to build up our permissioned data protocol! this one asks what a bucket actually is and where the data that constitutes a bucket is stored. it argues for maintaining the atproto ethos in the permissioned data protocol as always, looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

This Heron helps you connect wherever you are in the ATmosphere 😌

uhhhhhh woah big news

fun fact: Hong Kong has, by a very, VERY long mile, the highest gas prices in the world at HKD$30/L, or around $13/gallon. I would like to see LA beat that!

show don't tell!

new bsky server status account just dropped 👀

v1.118 rolls out today! New in this update: You can now translate posts without leaving the app. Simply tap "translate" on mobile and your phone's built-in translation takes it from there.

PHYSICS GIRL IS BACK youtu.be/B3m3AMRlYfc

you have a substack ? 🫵🏻🤣

March #promosky Hi! I write an Ace Attorney Persona 5 crossover fanfic called Logic and Trickster. Ask me about it! -Fate/Grand Order -Touhou -One Piece -Capcom -Namco x Capcom/Project X Zone -Ace Attorney -Mega Man -Devil May Cry -Sega -Persona -Yakuza -Sonic -Nintendo -Fire Emblem -Pokemon

it's kinda interesting that outages on bluesky are almost always partial - the site still works but something weird is broken. Meanwhile over on X "✨️The Everything App✨️" when it goes down it goes down for EVERYONE and nothing works

new blog post on permissioned data in atproto! this one introduces "buckets", the protocol-level primitive for shared access control. I walk through two approaches that don't quite work and land on something that I think does let me know your thoughts!

I was right, you can see the screen reducing in brightness as it's viewed from the side here (video timestamp @ 1:08) youtu.be/EJPI04bjcOY?...

so the Privacy Display featured at #galaxyunpacked apparently work by turning half of the screen pixels into "narrow pixels", which emit light in a narrow cone to achieve the privacy screen effect. To turn the feature on the phone simply turns off the normal pixels, leaving the narrow pixels on 🤔

Starter Pack for ATmosphereConf 2026 speakers: go.bsky.app/x5tEpn

time to break out the (static) ron paul gif again... inline, on-device translation looks like it's on the way to @bsky.app 🙌 thanks for working on this @alexbenzer.com :)

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month - all accounts set to "teen-appropriate experience" by default www.theverge.com/tech/875309/... discord.com/press-releas...

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

❌taking a break from social media because you want to ✔️taking a break from social media because you were forced by life circumstances to take on a job that consumes most of your time and energy, leaving no room for anything else 😢

@mishaalrahman.bsky.social stopped posting android news before he returned to bluesky 😢 androiddev.social/@MishaalRahm...

New PR: [APP-1759] Live Now Open Beta (#9699)

USER REPORTS INDICATE X DOWN FOR USERS IN THE U.S - DOWNDETECTOR

Solving private content is going to be the thing that unlocks so much more in ATP.

Slightly diminish a game: Kirby & The Mildly Reflective Surface

in general 1. carrot > stick. offer a better reality. 2. do not blame people for not making the choices you did with your priorities and freedoms. this goes for a lot, including: - tech + vendor choice - sponsorship + funding

Since diving further into ATProto and its ecosystem, then interoperability piece increasingly becomes the most exciting aspect. I suppose it’s kind of the whole thing but still, it opens up so many opportunities! Lots of ideas I have to build on top of existing lexicons.

Livestream feature coming out of closed beta soon? 👀

X Is a Power Problem, Not a Platform Problem my analysis of current events connectedplaces.online/reports/a-po...

New PR: Drafts API (#4533)

Happy New Year, friends! I have some ~personal news~, which is that the Bluesky team is generously giving me some contract work (which could possibly turn into a job) welcoming more indie media and local govt to Bsky and supporting those already here. Excited to take my amateur Bsky boosterism pro!

Time for my big year end blogpost about the Atmosphere. From the personal computing perspective, the cloud has been a disaster — but we shouldn't run away from it. We can solve a lot of problems by connecting our clouds, turning it into atmospheric computing.

The goal here is to make Heron an Atproto app, not a bluesky app. I hope to build first class support for other custom lexicons and data to the degree the creators of said lexicons let me. Atproto has a rich and vibrant ecosystem, and I enjoy wearing designer, PM and engineering hats.

Happy new year everyone in time zone UTC+8! 祝喺 UTC+8 時區嘅大家新年快樂！

Here comes Naoko! Bluesky’s first-ever Country Manager is from Japan! bsky.app/profile/naok...