Some thoughts about naming things and a bit about the current Semble logo!

🎊 @lanyards.app BETA is now live for #researchers! Sign up with 🦋 → lanyards.app #ATscience 🧪 #ATmosphere 🌀 #ATproto 🪿 #ATberlin #LinkInBio #AcademicSky

me: 0 firehose: 1 (switching to jetstream lol)

this is rad!

Would recommend this as a launch strategy! It was quite straightforward to wire up a firehose listener to our existing infra afterwards. Basically just a lightweight controller that does some validation on the events then literally calls the same methods to do all the semble stuff

I hope people like it. I hope we're able to build more sense-making tools for collective intelligence ♥️ Ape together smart

Any takers?

I really love this feature! It's a great way to discover new content ppl have curated to Semble

some really exciting updates here! check em out and let us know what you think!

Leaflet now has notifications! We announced here earlier but hadn't added the lab note :) Notifs for post comments, replies, new pub subscribers — in-app for now but we'd like to add other channels Let us know what you think! Right now most useful for comments…but got other things in mind too ✨

Compiled a @semble.so collection of Scholarly APIs that I've been assessing for @lanyards.app . Making them available to all #ATscience 🧪 #ATmosphere 🌀 #ATproto 🪿 builders. semble.so/profile/rend... Based on researchguides.smu.edu.sg/api-list by SMU Librarian @bellaratmelia.bsky.social ✨

Made a collection inspired by this, for @leaflet.pub x atproto community tinkering! Lots of cool integrations & interop & experiments — from other apps rendering leaflet posts to cross-posting and import tools and markdown pipelines, even leaflet as headless CMS for an *atprotated* website :)

“We propose that scholarly publishing needs to be re-communalized. Universities, libraries, funders ... need to build a system that is community-led and managed, and which works to further research... This should involve active support for federated open infrastructures” arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820

Poetry Sundays! Why I love travelling

A number of DWebYVR events for November for you. 📚 book club 📓 tools-for-thought hack day 🥘 potluck! dwebyvr.org/dwebyvr-nove... #vancouver #tech #commons #community #ethicaltech

“Don’t get mad, get busy!” Love this attitude!

Saved a podcast episode to Semble and realized @ronentk.me already saved it a few days ago. So cool to have access to these shared attention signals. This is only the start but I can already feel the collective intelligence emerging. semble.so/url?id=https...

Really fun metacollection pattern by @hilarybaumann.com until we have both Semble account and collection following! semble.so/profile/hila...

So amazing to see people hacking on Semble or thinking of ways to integrate it into their own projects. This is why open social will win. semble.so/profile/cosm...

You can become a co-owner of gander social, an atproto social network built in Canada. Their crowd raise is going extremely well. People are hungry for change. www.frontfundr.com/gandersocial

Semble alpha is ready! Give it a try and let us know what you think. Read more about setup and roadmap in the leaflet 🚀

Chatted with an OG Internet guy at the @atproto.boston meetup today. Asked him about the last time he saw so much community excitement and engagement for a protocol. He said http and html.

Strong agree! @bmann.ca is a mycelial mastermind and we're grateful to be working together

"This kind of thing doesn't just happen! It's because good, passionate people show up and put in work." @pfrazee.com is spot on. @bmann.ca did such an amazing job of bringing people together and facilitating action. Deep appreciation.

Yes coach bsky.app/profile/wesl...

Writing about writing!

Time to de-enshittify research publishing

wrote down some thoughts justifying @tangled.org's existence & planned trajectory.

while there is a place for full lexicon adoption across apps, ingesting records of related lexicons and translating them to app specific lexicons will cover a lot of interop use-cases. I.e. "community.lexicon.bookmarks.bookmark" -> "network.cosmik.card" Which still enables "PDS as universal API"

𝐃𝐖𝐞𝐛 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔! 🏕️ Where should it happen? 🤔 We want to hear from you! 🌻 You are welcome to participate in this survey, it takes 5~10 minutes. ⤵️ mailchi.mp/archive/2025... #DWeb #DWebCamp #Camp #HackerCamp #decentralization #event

Open source attention locked open and user controlled with ATProto on semble.so 🔐

@hyl.st hacks strikes again! the auth flow in extensions is a very tough nut to crack, folks working on atproto web extensions def look into this!

This is such a paradigm shift for developers and the more ppl wrap their head around this the more we’ll see cool stuff being built!

Jazzed for the conference and the ATProto x science side event we're co-organizing with @tgoerke.bsky.social 🚀 Save the date! 📆 Also - ideas for cool speakers or projects in the ATProto science space are most welcome! Feel free to share here/DM/email

Some thoughts about our approach to integrations in semble. Curious to know how others are thinking about integrations across the ATmosphere!

semantic web: "Anyone can say anything about anything" protocol-powered collective sense-making: "Anyone can contextualize anything from anywhere"

is there a default knot I can use on @tangled.org? the interface for creating a new repo only allows for using ones I've registered myself.

"Like with open source, open social is a compounding effort. Every mildly successful open social app lifts all open social apps. Every piece of shared infrastructure can benefit somebody else. At some point, open is bound to win."

just joined the User Cooperative which has free membership. They are building a browser that distributes revenue to coop members. www.usercooperative.com www.usercooperative.com/surge-browser

.org is a nice tld! tho .coop has got to be one of my favs

very true. getting over the hump of paying for quality products is a great place to be. I'm honestly happy every time I make a search on kagi, it feels healthy in addition to being very high quality

Some serious cooking with @bmann.ca & @ronent.bsky.social about Semble. Never thought I’d hear Boris say “my brain is mush” from too much #atproto talk. Excited to share out our roadmap for all of this.

As a language learner, I try to think about languages within a "fluency pyramid". The idea here would be to start with my least fluent language, then progressively translate into more fluent languages until the meaning of the text is understood. A good browser extension helps a lot!

@kagi.com has a translate webapp + extension which is HUGE for language learners like myself. I can easily translate selected text or entire pages (yes, even my bsky feed) into any chosen target language. translate.kagi.com/extension

Imagine a highly curated feed with no likes and no ads that optimally shows you content in a way that strengthens your attention, memory, and understanding of the world. This is what a well-crafted spaced repetition flashcard deck is.

there's an important virtue here called "epistemic humility". why is it so hard to find ppl with it?

Imagine a world without planned obsolescence? Feels like sci-fi in these times

"Either we increase our capacity for learning at scale, or we may be forced to abandon the projects and ideals of an open society—with disastrous consequences ... We have little choice but to learn new ways to make sense of the world together, in a new kind of public sphere."

So much SENSEMAKING