Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

Announcing eurosky.social accounts - launching January 2026. ✅ Managed by Eurosky, a European non-profit initiative ✅ Hosted on European cloud ✅ Governed by European law www.eurosky.social/register

@brittanyellich.com and I have been talking about community modeling on ATProtocol lately and I wrote a follow-up piece to her recent post "Representing groups in ATProto".

Well, it's official: github.com/ThisIsMissEm... Yes, the website is currently non-existent. @thisismissem.social is still building it. Patience young padawan.

I wrote up a doc about what I'm thinking for opensocial.community and representing groups in #ATProto in case anyone has any thoughts or feedback on it! brittanyellich.com/atproto-grou...

Browser Native Auth and FedCM is finally here with Sam Goto of @developer.chrome.com adventuresindevops.com/episodes/259...

local first vs atproto!! what should the source of truth for group data be?

New in open safety tools news, @matrix.org has released Policyserv!!! matrix.org/blog/2025/12...

In which i offer to facilitate a research project to explore atproto ecosystem brand and user experience needs discourse.atprotocol.community/t/research-p...

I’ve oftentimes said AT-net as a more explicit way to talk about the Atmosphere, thinking of it as AT-net = the network Atmosphere = the ecosystem The cuter spelling is @net. Soo, might have a go at ‘Login with @net address’ It’s semantically similar to ‘internet handle’ so they can co-exist.

Threads is effectively shelving their fediverse integration, after it saw marginally little use Zuck has played the game well, harming both open protocol movements while growing his platform, getting good PR and distracting regulators connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team joins @rabble.nz to discuss what it takes to run decentralized social media at scale. In this ep: - How @bsky.app grew to 40M+ users with a tiny team - What makes the AT Protocol different - Why the right to exit matters for social media Watch now: youtu.be/p0O4dRi7nPs

other folks can sign up through Collective to become a member of that community. I'm hoping this will create some structure for apps that may want group functionalities like this but need a starting point. Super open to feedback, the API repo is here: github.com/collectiveso...

I've been digging into the problem of creating communities that can migrate between #ATProto apps, first to create community groups that can be integrated into @collectivesocial.app , but also be able to migrate away if needed. I'm getting close to a working prototype. I have my own PDS

It's done. I can't believe it's finally done. I've been working on this in mostly secret for so long, and I'm so excited to share it with y'all!

Leaflet's Atmospheric Advent Almanac, Day 18 LAUNCH [3] — Bluesky thread viewer You can now browse Bluesky threads right in Leaflet, both post embeds and quotes/mentions! Nice for more seamlessly bringing in social context…try it with some examples in this very post! cc/ @erlend.sh :)

First community labeler taking actions on atproto using @roost.tools’s Osprey. entire Ozone and Osprey stack running on a $50/m OVH machine, with up to seven days of full firehose backfill for investigating patterns and exploring the network.

Bluesky folks came up with a fundamentally new and privacy-protecting method of doing this unlike every other service. Almost every negative response is based on how people assume Bluesky is doing this based on how bad everyone else does it. Bad actors have so poisoned the entire market...

My thoughts on "Sign in with your internet handle" as a call-to-action for authentication, and my guidance and best practices for handling authentication inputs. #ATProtocol #Authentcation ngerakines.leaflet.pub/3ma7hed2kdk2x

Part two of our "Building In Public" series on the design of the recurring payments feature is out. With it, we exploring some of the user stories that shape this set of features and explain the thinking behind them. #BuildingInPublic #ATProtocol

As part of preparing for #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver March 2026, we're republishing the videos from Seattle March 2025, along with transcripts. Here's @zeu.dev with Message Gardening in the Atmosphere with Roomy Chat (@roomy.space)

Might’ve gone a little overboard with my 💎 picks of 2025 on Semble, but here’s at least 35 really good ones: semble.so/profile/erle...

Still feels like a critically missed opportunity for @leaflet.pub to not interop with Bluesky for comments. For someone who discovered this article via leaflet itself or any medium other than *sky, there’s absolutely no sign of the generative discussion that ensued on-feed, nor its likes/shares. 🧵

With Roundabout, our new local community app, we’re reimagining a lot of familiar surfaces and features of “social media.” Here’s how Roundabout is different: Let’s dive in! 🧵

There’s so much here already. The collection of products that make up the early ATmosphere is a nearly complete social media ecosystem in miniature, ready to be turbocharged. 🦋🐝🌳🦒🦠 rhosf.leaflet.pub/3ma4qrtzhhc2...

Announcing Key Transparency for the Fediverse soatok.blog/2025/12/15/a... #fediverse #e2ee #keytrans #keytransparency #key-transparency #crypto #cryptography #privacy #opensource

So I saw the discuss the other day about "how do we initiate user registration for PDSes?", and well, here's a solution to that: github.com/bluesky-soci... There's a little known OIDC prompt mode called `create` which does exactly this. The above PR implements this mode. Here's a demo:

This would make for an interesting front end only ATProto project - make a standalone account creation interface. Might actually pair nicely with - @danabra.mov’s internethandle.org - Blacksky, NorthSky, EuroSky options - choice of domain name - additional app explorer / new account checklist

Would love to have this conversation continued as a @rabble.nz & @davidbollier.bsky.social teamup series (and dual-cast to both pods), where the two of you interview a third guest about our Digital Commons. Some suggested guests: @rude1.blacksky.team @openfuture.bsky.social (Zuzanna Warso++) 👇 👀

When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground. For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.

What would an OS with built-in version control at the file system level look like?

I don’t like to rate media as good/bad; I’m not the reviewer type. All I wanna do is make lists of Good Stuff that I wanna recommend. Especially for movies, just let me make lists like.. “Escaping the System” * Matrix * Groundhog Day * Network I.e. atproto movies lexicon + Semble.

My crazy idea to cram all of the AT Protocol into a single deployable container. Works with SQLite, Postgres and potentially more data stores in the future. Steps are literally deploy container -> import your lexicons -> backfill -> build your app with the GraphQL APIs. quickslice.slices.network

Media theorist & “Team Human” host @rushkoff.com joins @rabble.nz to discuss reclaiming the internet from venture capitalists. In this ep: - How the internet became ad-driven - What worker-owned platforms could look like - Why Mastodon failed to take off Full episode out now: youtu.be/rLQmi8oMUCk

Howdy! I’ve been working on adding #oauth to my #homelab using my own #atproto on my own #pds. I‘ve released the multi auth app gateway & oauth code to integrate to your app. There is a bit of RUST in here. I’m open to feedback, bug reports, contributions. #FOSS #SELFHOSTING bkb.cx/p/atauth

Our initial roadmap for @roost.tools is now public! We have a lot of work planned, and we are pretty excited about it. Let us know what you think. roost.tools/blog/introdu... Check it out here: github.com/roostorg/com... Give us your feedback and suggestions here: github.com/orgs/roostor...

Meet the Bluesky DevRel team, @alex.bsky.team & @jimray.bsky.team, who will be delivering two half day workshops as part of our pre-conference events.

I used to think such things could be separate, but in recent years I have totally changed my mind about this and agree "If politics is about this distribution of power in society, software is now politics"

The EC hit X with a 120M fine for DSA transparency violations. But as the European politicians cannot get themselves to leave the platform, it shows the underlying issues with how the politicians (dont) understand how power works on social platforms. connectedplaces.online/the-digital-...

The new Agentic AI Foundation (OpenAI, Google, Microsoft...) will set rules for how AI agents access data. Wikimedia's voice is missing. If this is about the public interest, the digital commons must have a seat at the table. More in the latest from @alek.bsky.social: openfuture.eu/blog/why-wik...

@cameron.pfiffer.org have you been in touch with the index.network folks at all? Having AT Protocol as another option among those platform sources would be nice, but your work - extending it with signal-seeking agents - can make AT really stand out. @simonwillison.net might also like this.

I've been yapping about attestations and verifiable credentials for a while now and with today's launch of @atprotofans.com, we can tie it all together in an actual product that every-day people can use. Read the technical deep-dive for the nitty-gritty details.

👋 Hello, Bluesky! We're ATProtoFans, a new way to support creators you love. How it works: you make a one-time payment, and both you and the creator get a permanent, verifiable record stored in your ATProtocol accounts. atprotofans.com

Sometimes I hear people say ‘I wanna do some atproto stuff but don’t know what’. There’s no shortage of cool stuff that needs doing, especially if you dig into a specific project/app as opposed to trying to make a standalone thing from scratch. Now compiling project ideas in a community wiki 👇

I just finished a new blog post that talks about how @roomy.space's new server is going to work. I explain where the data is stored, how we do authorization, how we preserve data ownership without the PDS, and more. It's a big one!

I've been thinking about how oEmbed could work for ATProto records. Currently, you can embed a Bluesky post on any website by passing the post's bsky.app. URL to the oEmbed service. It would be nice if you could also embed records from other ATProto lexicons. Here's a possible solution... (1/8)

Intentionally solving for this could be a major opportunity for @tangled.org — GitHub doesn’t care. For example, strong conventions & rails for self-disclosure of AI-assistance, maybe with different gradations. And for reviewers some kindly worded ‘vibe-coded? plz confirm’ tags & reply-templates.

@sli.dev @kermanx.github.io @antfu.me is there a hosted Slidev-as-a-Service out there? I wanna make markdown-based slides, but I also.. 1. want to run a web app app, not the command line 2. don’t want to self-host anything. Just lemme login with atproto and store the media to my PDS 🙏

2025 is coming to end and some people who claim not to be fascists are still associating themselves with fascist outlets like X. I claim, perhaps charitably, that it's because they don't understand how the internet works. Either way, this needs to change. berjon.com/fascintern-m...