Semble search is now live, adding a powerful discovery layer to Semble! Check it out at semble.so/search Here’s what makes it different >

ATProto devs did you know you can use selfhosted.social for users to create brand new accounts on the atmosphere in your applications? Both deckbelcher.com and blento.app uses our PDS. A user's journey into the atmosphere does not always have to be started from Bluesky. It can start from your app.

@semble.so search 🫶🫶

Some thoughts about what it's been like building and shipping @semble.so notes.wesleyfinck.org/3md75xpwml222

@leaflet.pub backlinks on the @semble.so page are 🔥 Am putting together an "AI Agents in the ATmosphere" collection and immediately found some useful pubs to add! Will be shipping this soon once we improve the performance a bit.

Corporate vs community search engine @semble.so

Books, videos, research, code, and more. Whatever you’re in the mood for - you can now filter by media type! Try it out: semble.so/explore

Semble Search is dropping soon 👀 🔎

Wondering what Semble is all about and how to use it? Check out our video guides on our docs page to learn more! docs.cosmik.network/semble

atproto is so funny. Leading protocol explorer in the previous ecosystem I worked in: Etherscan, a 70-person company with ~$35,000,000 in yearly revenue Leading protocol explorer in the ecosystem I work in now: @pdsls.dev by @juli.ee, it's great

This was a lot of fun! shameless plug but @semble.so was an incredible writing companion, both for going through my own collections and also searching through all the great links ppl have saved there

at @cosmik.network we've decided to make every other Friday a day of exploration and experimentation with AI-tooling. Yesterday was the first one! some reflections of how it went and where it could go next: notes.wesleyfinck.org/3mcm52z6tls2m

New feature cookin’ 🧑‍🍳 Aggregating Bluesky mentions on the Semble page for any URL!

Vancouver folks who like to write, please join my bi-monthly @dwebyvr.org writing club out of @z-space.ca! luma.com/2e9uxcuc

give me a feed of podcasts my friends are listening to? ✅

We have decided to open-source Margin anyways while we wait for extensions to be approved. GitHub: github.com/margin-at/ma... Tangled Mirror: tangled.org/margin.at/ma... Star our repos! Also, invite codes have been disabled, feel free to use margin at margin.at!

This looks 🔥🔥🔥 can't wait to interop with @semble.so 🤖🤝🤖

Semble serendipity in the wild 🫶

definitely exciting to think about the friendships and intellectual partnerships that could be sparked on Semble and beyond ✨✨

early adopters see the vision through the noise. In the long run open social will win simply by offering better experiences for researchers. Assuming atproto moderation is a main issue, there is infinitely more surface area for improvements compared to X & we see glimpses of this already with Lea

starting 2026 with some more poetry :)

Chinese apps are a completely different world than western apps, lots of mutual learning is possible

super impressed and grateful for the immense care within this diverse community 🫶

If you’re looking for reading recommendations for the winter break - lots of gems here! Thanks to all the contributors and happy holidays ☃️ semble.so/explore/gems...

after a fun chat with @laurenshof.online and @ronentk.me I finally made time to write up some more thoughts about interoperability in the atmosphere without needing to share lexicons! notes.wesleyfinck.org/3maq3h26ook2h

obviously the results of this do not replace the important and necessary user research work (s/o to @christian.bsky.social for spearheading this!). But it is quite fun, and insightful, to see opinion groups emerge on this topic. And polis is a fantastic product

ppl are still contributing, but you can checkout out the report here: pol.is/report/r6bbh...

Want to present your ATproto research or project? Submit your idea at forms.atproto.science/atscience26-... >

Announcing atproto.science! #ATproto has huge potential for supporting new ways of doing research, so we started @atproto.science to help bring together researchers, build community, and explore what's possible when science meets cutting-edge open social network protocols! 🧪 >

I went ahead and created a pol.is conversation about this, pls contribute! pol.is/7bdiwbvh2d You can contribute by voting on statements and/or adding your own statements. First time using it, hope it helps surface useful insight!

This is a rly important question, especially for the future of science communication. There’s a bigger design question here about attention allocation systems. Notifications (e.g. of ppl commenting on ur post) is a form of this. We need better tools (and policies) for configuring them.

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some really great links being added to peoples top picks of 2025! If you make a "💎 Picks of 2025" collection, your cards will also show up in our community feed semble.so/explore/gems...

It would be awesome to use a collective deliberation tool like polis for making sense of atproto ecosystem-wide discussions like sign in branding / terminology. Bsky threads are not the appropriate format. plus many more voice can contribute meaningfully.

There’s aggregation and there’s discourse facilitation (ie discourse graph affordances). We’re hoping Semble can support both for some time, but eventually we’ll prob have to commit to one, and defer the other to an ecosystem effort. Which is the beauty of ATProto, don’t have to do it all alone!

Had a lot of fun picking out my top picks from 2025, looking forward to continued learning in 2026! semble.so/profile/wesl...

Our first iteration of notifications! What else would make sense? E.g. getting notified if someone Semble’s one of your bsky posts or @leaflet.pub pubs? @ mentions in a card note? Semble page alerts?

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Today, we're opening up Seams Alpha (seams.so), a social web annotation built in the Atmosphere. We're hoping it helps with collective sense-making. This is just the start, there's still lots to do! We'd love if you tried it with us.

did something with atproto oauth change in the last week? my local dev environment is failing to resolve a handle to DID and I haven't changed anything (was away all last week)

I'll be presenting @cosmik.network and semble.so at 4pm today at the ASML Open Showcase @ Berkman Klein Center - come say hi if you're around! cyber.harvard.edu/events/asml-...

Black Friday ⬛️🚫? No, it's Leafy Friday! 🍃✅ A special day to read & write on Leaflet 😍 Right now the best way to support us is to: 📖 explore what people are publishing — see leaflet.pub/discover & Bluesky feeds on our profile 📝 write something — make a publication, or [new!] publish a looseleaf!

pls pls pls fill out the poll! we'd love the feedback :)

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?