Better technology starts with democratic organizations. That's why we co-founded Tech Co-ops Canada, a new coalition promoting worker ownership in the tech industry. Join us!

The new episode of Future Mending Radio is about a worker coop in Toronto -- @hypha.coop -- that is implementing image verification technologies for journalists. www.buzzsprout.com/2396702/epis...

This is an extremely concerning development. Designing systems to be insecure makes everyone less secure, no matter who holds the keys to the backdoor.

We’re live. Two years ago, we released a plan. Today, our collectively owned music platform is open. Explore. Support artists directly. Join the co-op. It’s only the beginning. Sincerely Ours, Subvert

one of my favorite things about the atmosphere community is that so many of you also love coops

what an incredible turn out! can't wait to see you all next time!

Added a real Pollen claim for the first time thanks to this post

excited to share lichen.page, a cms for static site generators, built on atproto there are also a number of other strange things about it. I would describe it as a sort of software as research, but you can also use it, and curious what people make of it

Really looking forward to this!

My project for the last year, Orbital Studies Issue № 0 is available now! Orbital Studies is a literary science magazine. We publish writing and art in service of a more beautiful scientific culture. Includes work from @philipcball.bsky.social, @spencer.place, Michael Levin... orbitalstudies.com

Our Pollen browser extension is now live on Chrome and Firefox! It's an experimental tool for adding "claims" to images on Bluesky (commentary, provenance, facts) directly attached to the image content itself. nectar.hypha.coop

Come hang!

In case you missed our talk at #AtmosphereConf, it's now up on YouTube!

this is honestly THE best write up of how CSAM detection and perceptual handing works. the visual aids are very helpful in understanding how content is transformed and how detection methods work mahmoud-salem.net/the-invisibl...

If anyone believes their project should run as public infrastructure - come talk to us. If you believe that running components as public infrastructure is beneficial to the ecosystem and you have institutional funds available - come talk to us. @modalfoundation.eurosky.social Please RT

excited to peer-pressure @makeworld.space and @udit.bsky.social into organizing some atmosphere meetups at @hypha.coop back in toronto! (i will help)

would like to see pollen claims or some version of community notes on perceptual hashes widely adopted

Great example of ATmospheric dev infrastructure by @hypha.coop.

@hypha.coop is at #AtmosphereConf and launching Nectar, a new API that allows searching for similar images across the Atmosphere. Use it to track reposts, make image annotations, watch social trends, and more. Learn more here: nectar.hypha.coop/

Reminder we are giving a lightning talk on Saturday! Come watch @udit.bsky.social and I talk about fighting misinformation with perceptual hashes! atmosphereconf.org/event/7Rr2zW6

Journalism coops give me — and most of the journalists I know — a lot of hope for the industry. But I've been curious: What's it like to actually work at one? I spent the last few months talking to a bunch of brilliant worker-owners to find out. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/jour...

If you want to put perceptual hashes on ATproto, this is a draft spec explaining how to do that. Let's chat!

folks it is not every day that you get to post a 4500-word essay on communications theory on the corporate blog. pls go read it so i can go back to coding for our clients.

suuuper cool and fascinating. didn't realize mp4s were so non-deterministic. Also plays into perceptual hashing which @hypha.coop has got me interested in and will likely be really important going forward in identifying AI generated/modified video content.

Excited to announce our collaboration with @ipfs.tech and https://dasl.ing on two new standards for the next thousand years of decentralized social video: S2PA and MUXL! Together they give us a standard for self-certifying and content-addressable media in the decentralized social ecosystem.

love this! web ring as virtual garden is great (collect & plant flowers! search for & steal spores!) also, @standard.site spotted :) 👀

really excited about the perceptual hashing projects Hypha's currently working on. stay tuned for more!

very nice to see you tending your spores.garden

We built you a garden! Spores.garden is a personal site where you can curate your thoughts and explore other people’s gardens by following a trail of digital flowers. We’re still building and adding to it, so let us know what you like and what features you’d want to see!

Trust is multi-layered. To trust a claim, you must be able to trust the chain that relayed it (cryptography helps, but isn't enough), AND the originating institution. When claims are AI-generated, who do we trust? Our new piece argues that trust in AI providers equals trust in incentives and values.

Who took this photo? When? Where? You can answer these questions with cryptography. Read our new post to learn how: https://hypha.coop/dripline/who-took-this-photo/

signal and atproto, the two genders

the claw is meant to symbolize that all agents carcinize into known attractor states: perpetrators or victims of crypto scams

🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...

(1/n) A question to ask when building or evaluating software: Is this a feature, a product, or a business? Mistaking one for another leads to heartache for both you and your users (I speak from experience).

💯 Thanks a million to the Bluesky team for the integration and to the @stream.place and atproto communities for always being in our corner. Onward!

This isn’t true, we’re fully compatible with atproto moderation and have internal tools to flag unexpectedly popular streams. “Streamplace doesn’t have moderation” would be the worst possible meme to come out of today.

Next newsletter is dropping soon with all the finalized details for #PfP✨London Be sure to sign up here: protocolsforpublishers.com

the only proper canadian way to start your day is to shovel your way out of three feet of snow

If you are Canadian media, public figure or politician, I need you to read this article by @laurenshof.online "You cannot out-compete ‘where the ruling faction radicalizes and coordinates’" connectedplaces.online/reports/a-po...

the danger with AI slop and deep fakes in the feed isn’t simply that we’ll start to believe things that aren’t true. it’s that the truth needs to fight that much harder to come out. when everything *could* be fake, nothing *needs* to be true

This got me curious about a .toronto TLD. Seems like it was being seriously considered at one point but does anyone know what happened? www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...

truly tragic loss of beauty

Hypha ❤️ @stream.place ❤️ C2PA

Also, a documentation drop: if you want a deep dive into how Streamplace's C2PA segment signing and metadata actually work, @makeworld.space has you covered! stream.place/docs/video-m...

"Decentralized public broadcast" is something we can definitely get behind, and we're proud to be working with Eli and the @iroh.computer team on this release.

💡Huge project partner milestone! @openarchive.bsky.social and @hypha.coop just shipped a privacy-first, decentralized storage backend for the Save mobile app. Communities can now preserve and verify mobile media without relying on centralized platforms. www.open-archive.org/news/oa-hyph...

🚨Publication alert! Learn about the first decentralized, p2p mobile backend we built w/ @hypha.coop in our white paper. Why? 🌍Distributed Storage. 🤝Community-Run: by us, for us. 🧱Redundancy, by design. 🫶🏼More autonomy & integrity. 🙏w/ the support of @ffdweb.org www.open-archive.org/news/oa-hyph...

Was chatting with @b5.bsky.social and @makeworld.space about validating their DASL libraries so I've gone through and created the CBOR NAUGHTY LIST of repositories that contain data that doesn't validate against the atproto spec (This is only users that have interacted with Streamplace)

🌱👒 Toronto Saturday, August 2, 2pm–5pm Dovercourt Park Organized by Garry More info: html.green