Finally time to drop the thing I've been working on for weeks: Bluesky without Bluesky – I ran a full stack PDS/Relay/AppServer/Client stack using no bluesky code!

I want organizers to be as excited as I am about the phase shift happening on the web right now. If we nerds can help the organizers see what we're seeing, which is the potential for a systemic overhaul of the web as we know it, the organizers will understand what they can ask us to build for them.

Announcing: keytrace.dev Take your @bsky.app / @atproto.com account and connect it to your other accounts around the internet. Keytrace cryptographically verifies your connected accounts so other social apps can trust the data. Learn more: keytrace.dev/blog/introdu...

We've got an updated protocol roadmap out, covering the next few months. Look forward to seeing folks at AtmosphereConf later this week!

wrote a blog post about a 2015 keynote by @mikecaulfield.bsky.social that stuck with me and how it relates to atproto. with AtmosphereConf right around the corner I wanted to get this (and my next one) out there so it could contribute to the conversation. would be honored if you'd give it a look :)

Blacksky is excited to announce Acorn, a platform for growing and managing communities on decentralized infrastructure. blackskyweb.xyz/introducing-...

@dholms.at motivated me to make a follow up post on Stratos, @transrights.northsky.social approach to permission data on ATproto! This one is a bit of a brief technical overview and as a nice bonus, I've made the code base public.

On your profile page, you will now see a (for developers familiar) activity graph. It shows your @atproto.com- wide activity (so not just Bluesky), colored by the most dominant app of that day.

Improved onboarding flow: instead of going straight to the LinkedIn import page, after your first login you can now choose your next step (friendlier flow for those that don't have LinkedIn to begin with). h/t @patak.cat 🙏

The startup pundits all proselytized go-to-market technique while ignoring ownership. Conventionally-owned companies have a survival probability of 10% after 40 years; foundation-owned companies have a 60% survival probability over the same period. A measure of success worthy of our aspirations.

Please share this primer on open protocols with your favorite government officials. protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/a-governme...

You can now save articles from @skyreader.app to your @semble.so and @margin.at collections!

1/X I made an atproto proposal around PDS to PDS repo migration that gets around all of the pain points of account migration today and intentionally builds a migration flow for users to go to the PDS that they want to move to and commence the migration from there.

Jacquard 0.10 release is up on crates.io! Bug fixes, docs updates (yes, I fixed the docs.rs build) & one BIG set of breaking changes. I migrated Jacquard's internal URL type from the url crate to fluent-uri, which is lighter & doesn't add trailing slashes everywhere. tangled.org/nonbinary.co...

Very cool to see a WordPress -> @standard.site plugin under the Automattic name! Awesome work @pfefferle.org! TBH, I think this looks a lot better than Wireservice, and I'd rather work together than duplicate the work. You should use this! github.com/Automattic/w...

mutuals == consent to archive clusters of mutuals == p2p archive mesh prototyped here. non destructive, just posts+saves. tangled.org/burrito.spac...

Thrilled to be working with @bad-example.com, whom you know from the excellent @microcosm.blue tools, on making the atproto network ever more resilient atproto.com/blog/introdu...

here it is folks! lots of details to still nail down, but this is roughly where our heads are at for the design of a permissioned data protocol give it a read and let me know your thoughts!

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

I just got my first messages over the firehose / jetstream! Thanks to @mary.my.id for the nice atcute libs! I've been here for over a year now, so I suppose it's about time I tried this out myself! 😄 I'm pulling @stream.place messages that _might_ end up in @roomy.space somehow. 👀

This is all the production-use I needed to justify a purchase of Leaflet Pro. ✨business expense✨

I just made a pitch deck in @leaflet.pub and it felt so right to make a series of pages (slides) strung together that way in a cohesive story. The only thing I'm missing is left-right keyboard shortcuts for going to the next/previous page.

yay it works! go to this #ghost blog and you can login with your Bluesky OAuth! It will politely only ask you for identity. But when you comment, you have an option to grant scopes to comment as yourself and it syncs back and forth! demos.linkedtrust.us/blog/at-prot...

spaces, meet cliques! how we built a minimal calendar on pear (our permission-enforcing ATProto repo) and what we had to build to get there.

We've converted all the talks to atproto records using the @lexicon.community events format, owned by the @atmosphereconf.org account You can search and RSVP to talks wherever you get your events e.g. smokesignal.events/did:plc:3xew... or atmo.rsvp/p/atmosphere...

okay, officially launching the first (alpha) version of atmo.rsvp!

Over the last two years we spent tons of effort into writing a #rust QUIC multipath & NAT traversal implementation. Beyond iroh, we're now ready to share it as a building block for others to use! www.iroh.computer/blog/noq-ann...

Some very exciting news - it looks like the working group for AT Protocol at the IETF has been approved! (though not formalized in the datatracker just yet) This is a big milestone in the standards process. But is also just the start of the actual process - years of meetings & work ahead!

Paul's article prompted a long one from me: What is the purpose of protocols? connectedplaces.online/the-purpose-...

First pass at first-class support for webvh identities. This is just resolution and doesn't include some of the MAY / optional resolution behaviors. Thinking about what an atpdid tool looks like for broad atprotocol identity management. More at didwebvh.info.

zick is studiously thinking through the atproto+ucan combo here: discourse.atprotocol.community/t/musing-uca... @expede.wtf (ucan editor & maintainer) chiming in 💖 @dholms.at also co-authored UCANs so his input here would be greatly appreciated!

Big news! Igalia (@igalia.com) is partnering with @eurosky.social to develop the next generation of the open social web. Let's stop waiting for others to fix our problems and start fixing them ourselves. We can just do things. More: www.eurosky.tech/s/Eurosky-Ig...

Protocol globally Platform locally

I wrote my first #atproto community discourse topic. Pretty simple idea, but can be a good groundwork for private data, group-owned data or off-protocol data.

I've been working on a network of webrings to connect people's hobby sites! I have multiple lines that I visualize as subway lines, so I call it the Smallweb Subway! Every station is someone's website. You can explore it here: gusbus.space/smallweb-sub... #smallweb #webdev #webring

Apparently @gui.do is unable to reply to this thread: bsky.app/profile/rend... @renderg.host is on @eurosky.social so might be that.

@sifa.id development update for day... 10-ish?. You can now import your LinkedIn data into your profile, see for example sifa.id/p/gui.do. #BuildInPublic

imo git should adopt DIDs officially as an alternative to the email based commiter identities. gits identity model is simple yes but painfully so if you ask me. its not very robust and email is a slog honestly ...

We have new help resources! Please add any questions that are not answered in this 🧵 help.eurosky.tech

Wrote down some thoughts about making @roomy.space more ATProto-native. It's not an established plan or anything, but I think there's a possibility that we make Roomy as "on-protocol" as possible, and I'm excited at the thought of getting to contribute more to the ATProto ecosystem than we are now.

8 months later, Digg has called for a time-out. «We underestimated the gravitational pull of existing platforms. Network effects aren't just a moat, they're a wall.» /surprised-pikachu.jpeg If only there was another way, like some kind of protocol that open social apps could build on together…

Getting together in here, # roomy-feedback, in 5 minutes! roomy.space/did:plc:ik6z...

30 mins ahead of today's office hours we're running a stress-test of @roomy.space to make sure the atconf space can handle many concurrent users. Please join us in the roomy-feedback channel of the real ATmosphereConf space at roomy.space/atmosphereco... in 2hrs! RSVP: blento.app/erlend.sh/ev...

Recently I've been looking through the plc.directory logs, and one thing that surprised me was finding that nearly every DID:PLC identity created by Bluesky uses the same rotation keys. That seems fragile to me. WDYT?

this week's news is about how @tangled.org @npmx.dev and @alt.store are using open social networking protocols to build, distribute, and discover software, and how the most important part is not the code but the community building part connectedplaces.online/reports/fr15...

alright tanglers, it's back to shipping 🛳️ 🌐 Tangled Sites is here: serve websites straight from your repo. grab your `tngl.io` domain at tangled.org/settings/sites. already have a `tngl.sh` handle? that's your domain—ready to go! 📄 docs.tangled.org/hosting-webs...

🔔 first pass on unread message tracking in @roomy.space is launched, making everything feel more alive also this week: - the app is a lot faster to load now! - nicer, less Google-coded UI typeface - prettier replies getting ready for the conf 💓

continuing to build up our permissioned data protocol! this one asks what a bucket actually is and where the data that constitutes a bucket is stored. it argues for maintaining the atproto ethos in the permissioned data protocol as always, looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

introducing 👀 💨 atproto-smoke 💨: one of the most comprehensive smoke/e2e test suites, primarily for PDS developers clone the repo, write a very small adapter, give it two accounts and start the test! tangled.org/alice.mosphe...

Open source software is free to download. But the infrastructure behind it is not. Most Open Source projects are funded through a fragile mix of donations and goodwill. Open Source infrastructure deserves a business model! dri.es/open-source-...