This isn’t new news as such, but people keep being surprised by it, so it’s worth repeating. Substack hosts, profits from, and promotes explicitly Nazi content, and if you are adding value to that network, you are helping them to do so. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

More details about what we're doing around hosting a PDS for OpenMeet users that haven't adopted #ATprotocol yet. Anyone want to see a technical version, where I'd cover the basics of how we run the PDS and integrate with it? Could cover things like monitoring the PDS and backups. Any value?

Apps that get DNS verification functionality wrong really cause a lot of pain for their users. Having explained the problem a number of times, I finally decided to write it down so now I can just share a link.

@npmx.dev is an incredible feat of distributed coordination! @danielroe.dev @patak.dev is there something written down somewhere about how you merged nearly a thousand PRs in a matter of weeks? I’m super curious to know more about what that has looked like for you as the reviewers.

Yeah if you want to make an atproto app that has other off-protocol features that’s fine If you want to have private posts exclusive to your app like Blacksy did that’s cool You don’t need to slippery slope everything

Will AI save us time? Some thoughts:

Just wrapped releases of the UI and API for OpenMeet. Big change is that all users must have a PDS, and if they don't, we supply it. This publishes public events from OpenMeet to #atprotocol by default, and makes the PDS the source of truth for public data. Live now at platform.openmeet.net.

Anyone wanna have a go at making an autonomous author of weekly updates for the Atmosphere? To my great delight the atproto feed(s) are so full of buzz I can’t keep up with it. I need something slower to maintain a sense of ecosystem overview. Could our friendly neighborhood agents cook smt up? 🧑‍🍳

I wanna do a @semble.so collection by means of a @leaflet.pub or any other supported @standard.site. I wanna mark a document as a Collection, so that every single link I add to that document is also part of a Semble collection. Then we can co-author an exhaustive ‘all about Open Social’ doc.

Just published a landing page with step‑by‑step setup for standard site in the Ghost → ATProto bridge (enable, sync, publish, verify).. link: cooperation-org.github.io/ghost-atprot... Happy to help anyone testing. please ping me with questions.

Why is end-to-end encryption so important? Because we either have private lives, or we don't. Up now on my @leaflet.pub rhosf.leaflet.pub/3me3kcylgzk2k

@skyreader.app now has experimental support for @standard.site feeds! Follow users and see all their posts across @leaflet.pub, @pckt.blog, @offprint.app and any other app that publishes standard.site documents.

Been mulling over @bnewbold.net's recent post on community spaces and atproto's next frontiers. I wrote about why building for organizers (not just users) might be the key to making it all work.

@semble.so search is getting really good! The cool part is that it will just get better as the community continues to curate content Thoughtful curation + user owned data + real social networks >> SEO slop I just saved this piece and found great stuff thru "Similar Cards" semble.so/url?id=https...

some thoughts on how to implement public community spaces in atproto. I think it is important for us to stretch what the protocol can do; and there are some great opportunities for self-hosting, moderation, customization, etc

Agents out here making every day hacktoberfest in the PR queue.

I wrote about what I've been calling "The Everything Account" If you're familiar with The Atmosphere, you already know how to get one, and this should hopefully help you explain it to others. For those of you who aren't, you'll be surprised to know you already have one; here's how you use it:

How do you protect 39M users from AI-driven abuse? We’ve just published a deep dive into how @bsky.app uses Osprey to handle the scale of the AT Protocol firehose. roost.tools/blog/how-blu...

spectra.video/w/7hsRkrevhu... "Centralised systems were made with the best of intentions, but were turned against us anyway. And peer-to-peer systems will be exactly the same.” Here’s a recording of my #FOSDEM talk on willowprotocol.org. This talk was a real labour of love, hope you enjoy it!!!

In this episode, Nate widens the boundaries of the AI conversation to incorporate the biophysical reality and institutional systems that support these technologies, including energy, materials, infrastructure, governance, and incentives. www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-orig...

Update on the Skyreader improvements I've made over the last week and a peak at the roadmap

Dries Buytaert of Drupal fame blogged https://dri.es/ai-creates-asymmetric-pressure-on-open-source

almost forgot but blento launched on producthunt today too, an upvote or comment would be much appresh 👉👈

i didn't know about @greengale.app until reading @penny.hailey.at's and i put some big feelings into words shoutout to ostrom, arendt, habermas, mills, polanyi, and giddens greengale.app/julietshen.b...

My just-in-time submission for this month's IndieWeb Carnival, hosted by @vhbelvadi.com on the topic of the IndieWeb in 2030: dominikhofer.me/social-indie-web #indiewebcarnival #socialweb #atprotocol #activitypub

> What is one thing that you would change in your favorite reader to make it even better? Make it about subscribing to people, not feeds. Very Online persons (and orgs) have more than one feed available for subscription, and I wanna opt into them individually. blog.erlend.sh/follow-anyone

Emancipatory pedagogy "Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects which must be saved from a burning building; it is to lead them into the populist pitfall and transform them into masses which can be manipulated"

if you're interested in #atproto getting a better sign-in flow in browsers, please give this a thumbs up. #FedCM also if u know more about how this would benefit you, leave a comment following their template! github.com/web-platform...

We'll reach 50 open PRs soon! Come help us review and hash them out together so we can all start using these features 🙏

Help prioritize the web features you need most → goo.gle/4iVDhCk The WebDX Community Group is launching a direct way for you to upvote features on sites like Can I Use and web.dev to signal demand to browser vendors.

v0.2.0 is here! The biggest update to our extension yet, now using wxt.dev Changelogs: - New UI and better UX. - Shortcuts for opening the sidebar, highlighting/annotating selected text, and bookmarking a page. - More amazing bug fixes and features Now available for Firefox, soon to be in Chrome

official public beta launch of blento.app 🎉🥳 lots of new features and cards added and (mostly) works on mobile now too share it with your friends, family, neighbors and random strangers on the street!

gbl08ma.com/didplcbft A very experimental PLC implementation which uses BFT consensus for decentralization ⭐️ 22

Hello world (kinda?). I totally revamped my abandoned for 14 years personal page, and as I'm getting it set up, I'm connecting it to Bluesky. This is a test of the Bluesky broadcast system. (https://masnick.com/posts/2026-01-31-connecting-to-bluesky.../)

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My take on the "explaining atproto" discourse is that all the UX/filesystem/etc metaphors are still very verbose and that you can explain the same idea in a lot less words: It separates data from apps, so any app can use data from any other app. That fits in a tweet, with other sentences around it.

We can talk to them now! Devs to devs. Please be nice. If we all get along well this will amount to being a Very Good Thing for the atmospheric web.

If you haven't seen it, a great mini documentary by @cultrepo.bsky.social was filmed last year at @localfirstconf.com, and just released today Lots of familiar faces from us at the lab, and other great collaborators.

adding social features to our websites will accelerate atproto adoption faster than building pure atproto apps

@roomy.space - our digital community garden for knowledge cultivation - has taken a long time to get right. Long enough that some people lost faith in us along the way, and that's fair. We'll try our best to earn it back. Spare me a moment to reflect on *why* this thing needed to bake a bit longer.

European social media alternatives need more than EU hosting. They require decentralized architecture, robust safety mechanisms, public funding, and business models beyond surveillance. Read more in @aditya.myatproto.social latest: openfuture.eu/blog/what-is...

Introducing our remote & hybrid co-leads, @erlend.sh and @psingletary.com . We've got three video streams from @stream.place , and @roomy.space for extended talk discussions and activity coordination.

Have just written up this proposal to standardise `prompt=create` as a part of AT Protocol's OAuth specification, since account registration is a critical component of growing the atmosphere: github.com/bluesky-soci...

Custom feeds are not communities. But they can become commons.

new from me: Musk buying Twitter has strongly impacted the cultures of the atmosphere and the fediverse. What impact will TikTok's new US ownership have on the open social web? connectedplaces.online/reports/fr15...

Meet Osprey V1.0, a new open source online safety tool designed to help platforms investigate and address their priority threats at scale, without sacrificing data privacy or performance. roost.tools/blog/introdu...

We've got a huge list of updates ahead of the end of early bird tickets, including announcing confirmed workshops for Thursday & Friday

just published my latest newsletter 🙈 stephenreid.substack.com/p/in-corresp...

Discovered a ghost-atproto plugin today that was developed by @goldavelez.org & co. which could now be greatly simplified with the introduction of @standard.site Give some ❤️ here if you want Ghost in the atmosphere 👇 github.com/Cooperation-...

Financial security eats up so much of one’s productive capacity (and well-being). Imagine what Emelia could do in a safe and steady work environment. I see her helping someone in the atmosphere every single day with anything from tech support on Discord to critical security disclosures. Hire her!