Another Guardian story on Substack hosting Nazi newsletters. Here's something I wish more academics knew: There's a Cambrian explosion happening in atproto world. Where your data is yours. New apps every week. Including @leaflet.pub, a blogging platform, newsletter functionality coming soon. 1/3

use @leaflet.pub or @pckt.blog or @offprint.app or whatever just don't use substack

@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.

added @standard.site support to obsidian-atmosphere - Publish notes to @leaflet.pub and @pckt.blog from within obsidian - Browse your subscribed publications and clip to your vault semble and margin interop is so good now that I need to update how I display the two 😄 github.com/treethought/...

This is breaking my brain slightly, but... it does appear to be a good idea. That already exists, it's not a wouldn't-it-be-nice-if-someone-did-this. I appreciate that lots of you Bluesky people already knew this. But I didn't, and I figure lots more of you don't.

Posts? Documents? Why not both? (Blogs too!) ICYMI — you can publish *Looseleafs* — standalone Leaflets with all our atproto social features :) Make a new doc instantly at leaflet.pub/new Publish to a blog, publish as Looseleaf…or just share the view/edit link, like a gdoc!

Starting to think more about what a *Leaflet Pro* option could look like & getting some good replies here — appreciate your thoughts on this! Any other things you'd most hope to see?

We made some nice improvements to our Bluesky thread viewer! ~ nicer formatting ~ easier to navigate ~ view post quotes ~ easier to open bluesky links ~ More info / demo: lab.leaflet.pub/3mabsropbo22q This collection of atproto ideas from @tynanpurdy.com is a fun example to browse too!

I’m excited to try @leaflet.pub and @pagebound.bsky.social later this year! What new sites are you excited to try as the social media landscape shifts?

This looks cool; great to give people more expressive spaces to publish and foster communities… HOWEVER: Substack is not and never will be "your corner of the internet" — it's a walled garden: no API, opaque algo, a platform you don't own In the Atmosphere we build on open data + open networks ✨

A few months back we did a series exploring how Leaflet could be better for different communities — artists, scientists, and fandom ✨ Here's a brief update thread on progress so far! If you're in one of these communities, appreciate a share 🙏 Who else should we make Leaflet great for?

Idea for a Leaflet tag experiment to try: If you're starting a new blog & want folks to say hey, tag your first post "Hello Leaflet" Then the tag page — leaflet.pub/tag/Hello%20... — can be a lil collection of blog intros & a good place for others to find you & post welcome comments!

We're doing a workshop at AtmosphereConf — on *Atmospheric Publishing*! Excited to share the state of the atproto publishing ecosystem, what standard.site makes possible, and what we might explore next. 1) are you planning to attend? 2) what would you be excited to do in a hands-on workshop?

This is so cool — we added notifications when someone links one of your Bluesky posts in Leaflet, and… @drearicheli.bsky.social linked one of *our* Bluesky posts in this great post with Leaflet feature suggestions: drearicheli.blog/3mdgnp5dp622y …so we saw it, and can reply here + on the post!

don't forget @leaflet.pub as a Substack replacement too!

Great post on feeds to follow for film buffs on Bluesky!

Oh damn I used this today and didn't even realize it was new! Felt natural, great new feature.

New: "cover image" — set an image to use for social previews for your Leaflet posts! From a publication draft [to do: looseleaf support], click from image or toolbar & "set as cover" ✨ Just for social share img right now, but we *could* show in post previews on publication home, Discover, etc too!

We're kiiiinda bringing some ~gdocs on atproto~ energy! Leaflet actually started as an app for quick fun shared docs, before we added atproto blogging / publishing Some limitations e.g. only published docs are on atproto b/c all data's public — but you can share Leaflet docs even w/o publishing!

We fixed our feeds! Broken for a couple days after our @standard.site migration, but working now ✨ To try em, see "Feeds" on @leaflet.pub's profile — Discover, Reader (your subscriptions), Bluesky Follows, & Quotes Next up: improving our in-app Leaflet Reader! What would you like to see there?

On the publishing side, it's worth looking at @offprint.app @leaflet.pub and @pckt.blog, who are all doing interesting things that may be relevant to publishers. I spent some time this weekend digging deep on this, and it's very cool: standard.site

This is the real promise of the Atmosphere: a seamlessly interconnected network of social apps working together. Look out for Streamplace's integrations with @smokesignal.events and @leaflet.pub, landing soon!

I am very excited about the work being done by standard.site @standard.site along with @pckt.blog and @leaflet.pub. This is the energy of the LiveJournal days, only better. Bring back personal small blogs that are easy to set up and manage!

Already flowing into docs.surf 🔥🤘🏻

This is *huge* A while back, I was concerned about ATProto platforms using different lexicons diverging and fragmenting the space, but the long-formers (@leaflet.pub @pckt.blog @offprint.app) are setting an incredible example of how to build together 👏🏼 More of this, please!

This is a very big deal. It might just look like random tech stuff not worth caring about, but @standard.site, the platforms building around it, and the tech approach it represents are how we fix the Internet and fulfill its promise.

Leaflet is on @standard.site! A big joint effort — and we're finishing a big migration to get Leaflet records standard-site-ified :) Log in to Leaflet & you'll be migrated automatically. Read this post for details, and let us know any q's. Social publishing. Atmospheric publishing. Together!

New: improved block handling! TINY RELEASE NOTES: - Nicer delete & reorder for non-text blocks - Easier to select / move / delete blocks in canvas - Removed rarely used block 'lock' feature - Prettified some buttons & toolbar layouts Let us know if you notice any lingering block issues :)

Fun tool for playing with color palettes based on images…nice for Leaflet theme tinkering! okpalette.color.pizza

🌀🌐 2026: the year of atmospheric publishing! 📝✨

👀🍃✨💙🙏

Awe shucks 🙇‍♀️ look at us all inspiring each other ❤️

ICYMI we have @-mentions, and we tweaked the styling to give them a bit more emphasis vs inline links :) *also* adjusted behavior when you click a handle in a mention or byline — we now show preview cards on tap/click (prev only on hover) for easier shortcuts to publications & bluesky profile

New: edit post dates If you've imported posts to Leaflet, or otherwise need to rewrite history, you can now backdate* posts! - on publish: edit date/time, default = now - published post: edit in meta & hit "update" *You can't yet publish in the *future*…but scheduling is on our list of ideas!

Cool use of Leaflet canvas — timeline w/ Bluesky post embeds!

We'll see if we can make this happen at ATmosphereConf 🤔 Hit us up if you'll be there!

Custom domains are lowkey (as my kids say) a killer feature of Leaflet in that most places you might host a blog or newsletter charge you a big up-front fee or hide the option behind a paid tier, while with Leaflet, if you have a domain, you can just use it, and it costs nothing.

Hey! Friends! What features have we built that you don't know about yet? You know Leaflet has profile pages? Bluesky thread viewer? tags? mentions? blogs and standalone publishing? polls? notifications? subpages? canvas pages? quote sharing? comments? custom domains? custom themes? ………yes??!

@leaflet.pub mentions cookin' too ;) coming soon 🍂

New: prev / next & more post options! (1) See prev / next posts linked in footer — default on, but turn off if you prefer, with… (2) New "post options" menu in publication settings You can *also* opt to show comments (Leaflet only), mentions (Bluesky + more to come), both, or neither!

The biggest misunderstanding about ATProto is thinking it’s a social protocol, rather than a new internet protocol. I say this because until recently that’s how I viewed it. @standard.site was the gateway to understanding the ATProto, lexicons, and how a simple protocol can open the web again.

Yes! A workflow that could be nice in Leaflet: - make a new doc (leaflet.pub/new) - make a subpage for relevant Bluesky posts - click a Bluesky embed to view full thread - draft in the main page; refer to posts as you go - make other subpages for notes, links, etc - delete/move subpages & publish!

Need one of these 👀🍃✨

Join our community on Signal to discuss Standard.site implementation and more ! signal.group#CjQKINS5Lrgq...

Cool new tool for migrating a blog from Tumblr --> Leaflet!

New: *small* and *large* text in the Leaflet editor! We already had h1, h2, h3, and p (text) — now you can use: ~ Small, e.g. for captions or fine print ~ Large, e.g. for intros or callouts Also new — keyboard shortcuts for all sizes! [cmd] + [opt] + [1/2/3/0/-/+], see in the editor "?" menu :)

Cool to track our progress on @aaronrosspowell.com's Leaflet wish list here :) ✅ Mentions (authors, pubs, posts) Longer shared quotes ✅ Notifications Email / bundled digests Navigation to pages & external links ✅ Tags Recommendations Stats Monetization Design options

2026 ins: grocery store receipt blogs

New: page width — set maximum page width in Leaflet! Great for published blog layouts *and* even just for docs & drafts, e.g. to have multi-column view when editing subpages! Set max width in your theme, from 320–1200px, with a couple presets *or* exact value e.g. to match an existing site ✨

Good resolution for us all — both to read more blogs, and to talk about what we find interesting…on Leaflet and beyond 🙌✨