Overwhelming to hear about how much the AT community showed up today at IETF. I wish I could've been there. I'm sure many people deserve special thanks, but I do want to highlight @bmann.ca for helping to get people there. I feel so fortunate to be a part of such a great group of people.

It should be obvious by now that Elon Musk, primarily with Tesla, has successfully hacked the global financial system. Tesla as a car company is doing terribly. TSLA as a stock, in spite of some dips, is doing terrifically. Well enough that a trillion dollar compensation is rumored. (1/2)

@storacha.network promising recipe for a private PDS based on IPFS here: github.com/bluesky-soci... Might we see a Storacha-flavored take on this?

How clear does it need to be that Europe needs independent digital infrastructure before we actually take credible action? The need is as clear for cloud as it is for the rest of our critical digital systems. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

I might've gone a little overboard, but here's 3,500 words on social media, how to make it better, what's so awesome about Bluesky's protocol, and why I'm particularly excited about @leaflet.pub as showing the future of publishing. (Plus some feature suggestions to make Leaflet damn near perfect.)

Last week I met with a local NGO to talk about their digital strategy as a new entrant to the social web. This got me thinking about the notion of "mobilizing vs organizing" and the interplay of feed-centric vs place-based means of communication in the Atmosphere. blog.muni.town/digital-stra...

@tijs.org this is very important work! 👏 github.com/tijs/atproto... Making atproto plug-and-play for popular frameworks is essential for developer onboarding, as I’m sure @alex.bsky.team would agree. Any chance of a walkthrough post for this?

Thanks to user feedback from @cloudmatrix.bsky.social kipclip.com now has a great new feature: Collections! You can now share any combination of tags as a public shareable link. Share your favorite atproto apps or recipes using a simple link, like this OAuth collection kipclip.com/share/did:pl...

GreenEarth is creating open source AI-driven recommender infrastructure for BlueSky. Type a prompt, see your feed change. We are here for the users, the builders, the dreamers. Join us. greenearthsocial.substack.com/p/introducin...

There is a need for better moderation systems on the fediverse. But getting people to coordinate to build and adopt such systems is proving to be a challenge. connectedplaces.online/on-the-coord...

This deserves much wider dissemination. Nevermind that it’s about the “fediverse” — everything in here is relevant to the coordination challenges of a pluralistic Open Social. AT protocol has very different constraints and affordances, but the fundamental coordination problem is the same.

Looking forward to signing in to Open Street Map with my atproto web-ID some beautiful day in the future. Major kudos to @openstreetmap.bsky.social for supporting Login with Wikipedia though!

@andrewslack.bsky.social, comedian and writer of Orphans, Empires, and the Search for a Better World, discusses the hidden history of corporate power, the mythic roots of American identity, and how hope - and solar panels - might just save us all. 📺 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsF2...

We made MLS more decentralized! We are excited to share DMLS that brings fork resilience to the MLS protocol, solving a key challenge in distributed systems while maintaining Forward Secrecy. This work was made possible by @equalitie.bsky.social, who funded it as part of the Breakout program.

Excited to announce here at the @parispeaceforum.bsky.social that, after months of joint technical work together, OpenAI will open source through ROOST one of its main internal models that handles detection and moderation. This will allow anyone or any company to use, test, and study the model.

Techbros genuinely believe democratization equals *commodification* because in their minds the on-demand convenience of buying and selling goods on the supposed free market is the greatest liberty imaginable for the self-sovereign individual.

Run independent @atproto.com networks, for testing and beyond, in docker compose or kubernetes, public or private Pushed significant updates today #atdev #atprotodev github.com/blebbit/test...

Saying hi the ATProto way.

Python Software Foundation withdraws bid for $1.5m grant from US gov, because the terms require they do not "operate any programs that advance or promote DEI", and "it would be a betrayal of our mission and our community." Applause. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...

The second part of my series on how I believe AI is changing the nature of work #ai #programming tawandamunongo.dev/posts/2025/1...

AI is Making Us Work More tawandamunongo.dev/posts/2025/1... #ai

Okay, so, I finally built that OAuth Client ID Metadata Service that I've been talking about on an off, and also verified it works with bluesky: cimd-service.fly.dev I did have to change my application_type to native to use localhost redirect URIs, which was annoying. #oauth #atproto

(WIP) thing intended to show "yo atproto gives you a global identity and here are apps that use it" want to make the logged-out experience informative too so i can share w uninitiated. i know @pdsls.dev exists (and rocks!), my end goal here is maximally accessible "look ma no silos!" at-me.fly.dev

I've built Bluenotes, a fork of the Bluesky app with Community Notes. Phase 1 beta is live. bluenotes.social Looking for thoughtful early testers. The algorithm needs data from diverse perspectives before it can identify helpful notes, so we're building that foundation first.

on how the developments on atproto and the open social web are getting more and more intertwined with global politics plus some interesting links that stood out to me this week

I see a future in #jj-vcs: steveklabnik.com/writing/i-se...

There was already a *lot* going on with Bluesky, and now it's under even more pressure. I wrote about how I think about moderation, affordances, expectations, human needs, and powerful trolls for @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/trump-admini...

@graze.social the ethical clothing company Northern Playground is trying to pull out of Meta ads. www.northernplayground.no/en/activism/... They’re now doing tests on various alternatives, so I’ve pointed them in your direction.

'Robin, you're speaking'. @robin.berjon.com had no choice. But you do, join us at #EuroskyLive in Berlin on 19 November. To register in person: www.eurosky.social/eurosky-live Streaming: smokesignal.events/did:plc:ooen...

I hate to admit it, but Elon was a pretty cool guy 10 years ago. He was making cool things anyway. Maybe he was never a particularly swell guy to begin with, but I genuinely don't think his personal 10-yr plan included becoming a Nazi sympathizer; I don't think that was on his vision board, yk?

@ngerakines.me my post spells out ‘AT protocol’, so how come it doesn’t show up in your feed? bsky.app/profile/did:... Generally speaking, I also wish we had a post-intel feature that’d give us a button to click that shows us a list of the feeds a post is appearing in, ideally even why.

Truth

Happy to share latest update from #freeourfeeds campaign, covering highlights from the past few months and outlining upcoming events and appearances. free-our-feeds.ghost.io/free-our-fee...

Sick of living in an obscenely wealthy country utterly incapable of strategically investing its capital for pro-social gains. blog.erlend.sh/saving-democ... ..in which I argue that Norway should invest in the AT protocol and network, by whichever means necessary.

The internet's in a bad place. We're not winning. How can we turn things around? We need money. What parts of the internet 1) are still under democratic control and 2) are in a position to produce significant revenue? It's mostly down to Wikipedia. But there's more… 🧵

It's here! PDS MOOver now supports automated backups and restores that anyone can use! This also includes adversarial account migrations! pdsmoover.com

on the challenges when an authoritarian regime joins a social networking platform to troll

New blog post! How Streamplace Works: Syndication Up until now, most Streamplace users have been using one big server at stream.place. With Streamplace 0.8, you can actually replicate streams on your own nodes. Borrowing a term from broadcast TV, we call this syndication. Here's how it works:

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

In the late stages of the bubble we’re starting to see multiple “people in tech don’t really believe in all of this, honest, we just act like it because we think we have to”, but the truth is that it doesn’t matter. What matters is that you’ve been acting like a true believer and you are what you do

Er du i Oslo? Bli med på gratis festival idag så treffes vi der! Våre panelister skal mimre om det gode gamle internett, se på hva som gikk galt og snakke om løsninger som åpne protokoller (atproto, AP osv.), datakooperativer, nye selskapsformer, og kunst 💖 attac.no/arrangement/... #Oslo #Norge

Interchangeability is what new social platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon are doing, though with different technologies and different ideas on how to do it. When you hear talk about decentralization, it's about making the social platforms interchangeable to solve the neutrality problem.

Unsurprisingly, I was just talking about this topic *yesterday* — @espiers.bsky.social perfectly describes the power of blogging. And the best part? It can still have that power right now. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-... So glad to see @talkingpointsmemo.com and @joshtpm.bsky.social doing it!

Just banned five obvious bot accounts who were each following 10k-50k people. Seeing this really gives me the ick because detecting and preventing this kind of abuse could not be easier, but doing the obvious Right Thing seems to be clashing with the network-growth imperative.

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

bluesky needs group chats so bad

i think the 2005-2015 era open source boom was built on a nice job environment where people had a little free time and employers believed in creativity the free time dried up, everyone burned out, 2015-2025 open source has been explicitly targeted toward getting funding & making money. what's next?

So a funny thing people in the ActivityPub world love to hate on is AT Protocol's lexicons, claiming they make interoperability between different software harder. Meanwhile a new TikTok like platform just joined the Fediverse. Guess what object type they use for federation! Is it going to be Video?

I’d like a news outlet labeler that shows me the type of ownership the outlet is under. Green flag for anything worker-owned, red flag for anything billionaire-funded. Crowdsourced ownership-data registry. Good for all corporations really, but news-orgs are especially prone to structural pressure.