Staying in the game I'm four months into my interim CEO role at Bluesky, and it's time for an update. Most importantly, as of today, the interim part of the title is gone. I'm... https://toni.org/2026/07/10/staying-in-the-game/

just in the nick of time! github.com/bluesky-soci...

Looking at all the tech burnout chat today and realizing that I think getting involved in ATProto has really saved my career. The future is bleak but having something hopeful about it in ATProto and the promise of the open web is keeping me going and excited.

All Roads Lead to Om Yesterday, my best friend and brother from another mother, Om Malik, passed away. They say that blood is thicker than water, and what we had was way thicker than blood.... https://ma.tt/2026/06/om-2/

❤️ Om Malik toni.org/2026/06/25/o...

as a little pre-show surprise, here's an early draft of the permissioned data proposal! github.com/bluesky-soci...

communities are coming to Bluesky this year. today, Bluesky is one big space. communities will be smaller spaces inside that where you can go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff.

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

I've worked in Democratic digital comms for a long time and pay attention to campaign metrics across platforms. Increasingly I'm seeing Dems who crosspost on X, Bluesky, and Threads get better engagement on Bluesky even with far fewer followers. Here's @jamestalarico.bsky.social's clip last night:

so it turns out the new papal encyclical has a pretty good diagnosis of why the fediverse and the atmosphere keep struggling to govern themselves. guess were doing catholic theology in a protocol blog now connectedplaces.online/reports/fr16...

v1.122 is rolling out today, featuring a better way to discover and share articles, blog posts and newsletters across the Atmosphere via new, dynamic Standard.site link cards. 🧵

More WordPress + Bluesky + atproto goodness.

WordPress joins the Atmosphere 🙌

Thread. I've found Bluesky engaging, fun and *alive* since the first day I got here, in part because I went out of my way to engage with it, not just expect some algorithm to platform what I do. Also because, fundamentally, I'm here to be social, not just to market, and that has a long-term effect.

Hi Bluesky 👋 I finally deleted my X/Twitter account today after years of going back and forth about it. Walking away from nearly 4k followers was honestly terrifying. Washington photographer obsessed with wildlife, ferries, storms, and dramatic Pacific Northwest light ❤️

Patrick Bailey, destroyer of Dodgers, discarder of bats

v1.121 is live! We've increased the quality of photos in posts by doubling the max file size to 2MB and the resolution limit to 4000x4000. Plus, posts with multiple photos now appear in a carousel so you can show off your photography in all its glory.

I recognize that @attie.ai is tremendously unpopular among some here, but I wanted to talk a little about how I've used it in a way that gives me way more control over my own social experience... Open to constructive discussion on it. Not really open to pure vitriol.

wip map of standard.site docs: pub-search.waow.tech/atlas

Conference Takeaways I’m back from ATmosphereConf in Vancouver, and I'm processing what I saw and heard. The atproto developer community could not have been nicer and more welcoming. Here are some takeaways. ... https://toni.org/2026/04/03/conference-takeaways/

Today some of the most innovative creators & podcasters are launching social websites that will bring millions of their fans to the social web: verge.surf.social decoder.surf.social versionhistory.surf.social vergecast.surf.social wired.surf.social 404media.surf.social poweruser.surf.social

We hear the concerns about AI. Our goal is to use this technology to give people greater control, not to generate content. Attie uses AI to help you create custom feeds without having to know how to code.

A recap of #atmosphereconf 2026 as well as an overview of why I'm spending my very limited free time in my life betting on ATProto (and why I think you should, too!) This isn't just for developers. This is for everyone. brittanyellich.com/atproto/

We showed off an exciting new product at ATmosphereConf today:

About the Atmosphere I’m writing this from the beautiful UBC campus in Vancouver where ATmosphereConf 2026 is taking place. It’s a gathering of developers, researchers, and entrepreneurs who are passionate about keeping the... https://toni.org/2026/03/27/about-the-atmosphere/

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

The Atmosphere is a new open network. The features: - Your account works on all atmosphere apps - You can switch to a new provider with no fuss - Easy to make your own apps on it - Works great with personal websites And, Bluesky is an atmosphere app.

Week 2 at Bluesky Happy to report that week 2 has been just as energizing as week 1. I’m still meeting lots of new people and learning the ropes. In addition to spending time... https://toni.org/2026/03/20/week-2-at-bluesky/

I wrote about why @knightfoundation.org invested in @bsky.app: philanthropy can act when mission & opportunity align. We believe in @jay.bsky.team's vision for a better social web—& in ideas (like @masnick.com's) that grow out of the research ecosystem Knight has long supported. kf.org/kfbluesky

More Bluesky news today - we appreciate our investors who have joined us to help build out Bluesky and the Atmosphere.

Week 1 observations: toni.org/2026/03/13/i...

Me as well!

Jay is the reason Bluesky exists and has gotten to where it is today - thank you!

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining Bluesky as interim CEO. I deeply believe in what this team has built and the open social web they're fighting for. More here: toni.org/2026/03/09/c...

Coming Off the Bench for Bluesky I'm excited to tell you that I will serve as interim CEO at Bluesky, a company whose mission I believe in deeply. I've been a partner at True Ventures for... https://toni.org/2026/03/09/coming-off-the-bench-for-bluesky/

Introducing Wireservice. Today, it's a WordPress plugin in alpha for publishing to @standard.site. Tomorrow, it's... another longform content lexicon? A news aggregation app on atproto? We'll see. wordpress.wireservice.net/index.php/20...

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

us older generations like to characterize gen z and younger as having attention span problems cause they're on phones/tablets all the time, but there's a pretty strong case to be made that us on our phones are the real problem

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

Day 1 of our release sprint 🚀 CascadeFlow shipped, open source AI cascading that cuts costs 30-65% in 3 lines of code. Small models handle 80% of workflows. Python + TypeScript. MIT licensed. Try it & leave a ⭐ github.com/lemony-ai/ca... #OpenSource #AI

Celebrating Sandbar’s Stream Launch trueventures.com/blog/celebra...

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

Before Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, we had NASA's Virtual Interface Environment Workstation (VIEW)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=24ux... Happy Friday!

"Venture is dead." I've heard this same prediction in every tech wave Web 1.0, crypto, and now AI. The argument is AI's capital efficiency makes VC obsolete. I believe the opposite. AI won't just save venture; it will restore value to the entire startup economy. trueventures.com/blog/the-tra...

The next decade of enterprise AI is being defined now. Meet the people building it. Sept 10 in SF: Connected Stack. Hear from founders of 11x, Arcade, Baseten, Chronosphereio, Cresta, Decagon, Deeptrust, Exa, @joinhandshake.bsky.social, @letta.com, Nectar, Nooks @semgrep.com, Veza—and more to come.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Automattic turns 20 this month! 🎂We’re celebrating with a look at some of the stats behind our story. First up: @wordpress.org powers 43% of all websites on the internet. Nearly half of the web!

the feminine urge to

Fantastic piece by @whittledaway.bsky.social on rewilding. Nothing else represents such sheer, distilled hope at a time when that can be in very short supply, and it's our primary weapon against nature loss in highly depleted places like Ireland.