AI: virtually no subject provokes such vitriol in my communities. I can grant the haters many of its harms, but their solutions leave much to be desired. I fear for the future even as I wonder at the future we are living. And so, dear hater, I must write: shaping.systems/blog/ai-suck...

Back into blogging and just published something I've been thinking about for a while now – making archival content more resilient and discoverable on atproto. Oral history, interactive transcripts, content addressing, and keeping important stories from being quietly erased. maboa.it/resilient-ar...

The practice of platform strategy is something of a lost art in the world of technology products, but it's a skillset we may need to revive for the battle against the harms of Big AI. Here's a look at how we can do exactly that: www.anildash.com/2026/06/23/f...

If you have your own website, have a try at ATMentions - a simple way to show how the ATmosphere reacted to your content pixeline.be/projects/atm...

We're very pumped to announce that the reference PDS now has an account management page! atproto.com/blog/pds-acc... You can now manage permissions, update your password, or deactivate your account directly from your PDS, as a regular user — no command line tools or Bluesky interfaces required!

Finally, it is out! A community designed lexicon to describe apps. Congratz and gratitude to @bmann.ca @byarielm.fyi @ngerakines.me , @hipstersmoothie.com , @jluther.net , @dame.is, @xan.lol , @knowtheory.net , @thisismissem.social @zicklag.dev @jluther.net @flo-bit.dev @yamarten.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️

«The very property we are building open networks to achieve, that no single actor can control the network, is also the property that makes this emergent object of legitimisation [of violence] impossible to target.» We builders have a responsibility to internalize this. Networks = conduits of power.

ATMentions: a web component that pulls how the ATmosphere reacted to any page. Bluesky, @margin.at , @semble.so , @frontpage.fyi , standard.site compatible. Easy to setup: one tag you drop on a page; it surfaces how the ATmosphere reacted to the page — likes, reposts, Margin notes, Semble saves...

Important work here. It genuinely frightens me how rarely AI is properly contextualized in the domineering growth paradigm it grew out from and exists in service of. It’ll stay that way until we extricate it from the old paradigm by popular uprising, forking the tech into democratic co-ownership.

hello! yeah! quite a lot of PLC progress (and some left to go). (warning: long thread) 1. there is an official reference read-replica implementation: github.com/did-method-p... the official read-replica is better than the Allegedly reference-server-wrapper that i made, in two important ways:

@skyreader.app development update: - your saved article list in Skyreader can now sync with a @semble.so or @margin.at collection - @standard-reader.app collection support

When full User Agency meets ATProto: what can you do once you sync in locally all the records from accounts you follow? Some early experiments: - Augment your browser history - Check references to a web page - Build your own feed with no AppView (next: publish as a Web Tile!). Enjoy in 🦫 today!

We are happy to introduce Locale, our brand new project 😃 Locale is a modern, open alternative to Crowdin, Lokalise, and Phrase, built natively on the AT Protocol 🌎 We are starting things slow this time, join the waitlist: locale.at

Blacksky is building ~the intercommunal net~ where communities create virtual spaces collectively managed by their members -- from moderation policies to recommender algorithms. We're hiring a Founding Engineer (Rust) @ $180K base who will report directly to me and lead our atproto implementation.

@mariaa.bsky.social @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social could lea just be ported over to @mu.social ? 90% of the neat stuff in lea is useful to everyone, including the general parts of verification, which mu / @eurosky.social are also operationalizing as a protocol-commons. github.com/eugenevinits...

PR us :) https://github.com/eurosky-social/eurosky-social-app

I wanna make @semble.so connections from within the @mu.social interface. And give me a Connections page that shows new connections for posts I’ve liked.

Astro 7 is here! A new Rust compiler, a new Rust Markdown/MDX processor, Vite 8 and more. Get ready for 60%+ faster builds. astro.build/blog/astro-7/

@me.webbeef.org can Beaver-browser be the app that bundles this together? tangled.org/me.webbeef.o... We’ve now also got @blackskyweb.xyz and @mu.social as actively maintained alt-clients with explicit remits of network resilience.

@chris.pardy.family wrote some thoughts on using CRDTs in atproto: leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:dp... He's looking for feedback and thoughts, I'm formulating my own, but I think it's an excellent start!

give it a few more years, this one’s got real potential 💫

NPR has a 'Word of the Week' series, and this week it's LUDDITE I spoke with Emma Bowman about who they really were and about the new luddites organizing against big tech + AI A fun one and, since it's airing on All Things Considered, maybe the biggest-audience luddite rehabilitation effort yet

We wrote a @standard.site explainer — what it is & why it's useful 📝✨ ~shared standards for longform publishing? ~a way to see what friends read & write? ~the atmosphere's hottest collab? yes yes & yes! Seeing lots of q's after Bluesky's new standard.site link card integration. Here's a TL;DR!

We built Comail so your mail gets delivered instead of buried in spam. Next: a personal inbox tied to your atproto account. We're holding the full launch until Permissioned Data lands, so your mail is genuinely yours, not just sitting on someone's server. Join the waitlist: comail.at/inbox

wait... people are still copying DNS records by hand? 👋🙂‍↔️ we've partnered with @marque.at to bring domain registration directly into pckt.blog. buy a domain and we'll configure everything for you automatically. it’s like magic 🪄🎩🐰

I tried to explain to myself the behaviour of some people who only seem to reheat one another's ideas — and are the same people still on X today, irrespective of political alignment. berjon.com/rt/

open protocols: if anyone builds it, everyone thrives

A brief 🧵 for all outside the #atproto bubble on why, from a digital industrial policy perspective, this step is deeply bewildering. There's @eurosky.social – open source, non-profit, fully aligned with the EU's open source strategy. It provides all that W has, & more. And yet, the Commission...

I took a crack a trying to capture the chaos of the moment in scientific research—generational change in what happens and how practitioners feel about it, the end of a decades-long program to orient science only toward "productivity," product, and capital. www.scientificamerican.com/article/amer...

i'm starting a diary on atmospheric login as a way to explore the topic in some depth. our login experience is how everyday folks will form their understanding of what the atmosphere even is—and the design space is super rich. the web may also have some tricks up its sleeve for us...

Didn't get to ask my question, so here they are @anna.wsocial.eu (I'm in the room :)) But firstly, welcome to the Atmosphere! It's always great to see another app join the OSW (open social web).

longer posts are the logical end state of a network on open protocols with meaningful adoption and competition between multiple providers best option for bskuy is to give in and stop being so attached to the 300char limit, because it wont be able to stay anyway

In case you hadn't put this together: Your business only needs a moat if you intend to enshittify it.

easiest, lowest-possible-hanging-fruit freebie of a win for @wsocial.eu @anna.wsocial.eu by just signing on here 👇 build some trust with the other stewards of the open web =)

SCOOP: In early June the European Commission unveiled its Tech Sovereignty Plan, which emphasized their commitment to #OpenSource. Just recently, they migrated their main ATproto accounts to #WSocial, a for-profit network that has quietly gone closed-source. blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-pub...

I just published a deep dive about #WSocial - the upcoming European fork of Bluesky, with mandatory age verification. Tech journalists have a habit of rehashing press releases and company talking points. Not me. I dug deeper and found really interesting things: blog.elenarossini.com/the-untold-s...

Did the introduction of group chats silently set everyone’s default messaging settings to ‘allow DMs from no one’? Pretty sure I had mine set to open. Trying to invite some folks I’m already in DMs with now to a group chat, but most of them are clearly set to accept messages from no one.

Just updated Beaver to use the 1.0 release of @iroh.computer in tangled.org/me.webbeef.o... Iroh is what enables all the cross-device functionality in Beaver by taking care of all the low-level side of things: device discovery, sending bytes around reliably. It "just works"!

Explain your @ I am 🥁 Erlend last name Sogge Heggen

I'm wondering about Bluesky group chats - will these be migrated to permissioned spaces when they are ready? And will ownership of those spaces be transferrable (seperate DID)?

Big highlighting and performance improvements in @skyreader.app this week. Also shipped @margin.at integration so with one tap you can save your highlights to margin.

We just released the first stable version of iroh, v1.0! Read about it: www.iroh.computer/blog/v1 We're super proud of where we landed with iroh's 1.0. Since version 0.35 it feels like we've entirely replaced the "engine underneath". Are you a fellow key-dialer? Come tell us how you use iroh!

Forgot to include the all important #atscience & @atproto.science when I posted direct from leaflet.

Unsurprisingly, the new @eurosky.social firehose is much faster for @sifa.id to connect to (compared to the standard bsky firehose) and on-par with the @microcosm.blue firehose (as all 3 are on 🇪🇺 Hetzner servers) Well done team, big wins for atproto independence and decentralization this week! 👏👏👏

Jacquard 0.12.0, the big breaking refactor, is finally released! Since the AtmosphereConf beta, I've reworked the jacquard-axum crate, incorporated fixes and lexicon updates from @pds.dad, @ethanholz.com, and @rwell.org, updated the LexiconSchema derive macro, and much more.

where are the “technology is apolitical” mfers at??

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...

*posting from mu* new client who dis? oh wait I have you all in my contacts, nvm. heckin love me some social graph integrity.

We've spent the last couple weeks deep diving on the permissioned spaces proposal and what it means for Habitat's use case! We plan to release a formalized spec on what we're building soon, but in the mean time appreciate any thoughts on our design.