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GreenEarth will be the first fully transparent, controllable, open-source feed. Does this diagram help you understand how the core algorithm works? Try the pre-release version now! survey.qualtrics.com/jfe6/form/SV...

The best discussions about how feed transparency should work, starting with this diagram, are happening over on X. C'mon folks we can do better here.

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I had a terrifying thought/moment. You know how the more we get to know people, the more we model them in our subconscious and some of us even start to hear their voices in the back of our heads as we simulate them and they blur into our social identities? (Cogsci stuff.) 1/2

The same-origin paradigm has unfortunately become a local maxima of the web. I'd argue the capture of the internet's search, social spaces, and data lock-in, as well as the lack of open protocols counter this capture can be directly attributed to building on top of the same-origin paradigm.

This was always one of my favorite statistics. Not just recommending contacts and groups but actually suggesting that Facebook groups *be formed* for white supremacist organizing

You may remember we did a 10,000 person experiment testing AI-powered healthier feed algorithms. Well, now we’ve built it as a product for BlueSky/ATProto. We are currently recruiting pre-release users to test it out and give us feedback. Want to try it? survey.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I have had real-life conversations with regular people about this now, about 100+ times. Regular people don’t care about this at all. They pretend that they do. In reality, they see moving away from the status quo as a huge chore, comparable to switching banks.

An app using atproto should be a quiet implementation detail most of the time and not a selling point im ngl

Bsky needs a meta level. Feed sets as content. Essentially copy the old Tweetdeck multi-dashboard design to organize feeds into sets. Then make these dashboards collaborative & shareable. Then add a dashboard discovery feed of feed sets. Somebody plz make this. @mu.social? @graze.social?

Okay folks. People are interested in this idea – it has legs and I want to make it happen. If you're a digital professional and interested in being part of such a freelancer collective, send me a message. Nothing set in stone yet, but I've got concepts of a plan and would like to establish this.

Is this a good logo for the GreenEarth feed? It's a healthier, user-controllable, open-source, LLM-powered, transparent feed we're building -- now in alpha testing. Try it? Tell us what you think! bsky.app/profile/did:...

@astral100.bsky.social Who follows your blog and content and finds value in it? Are you a part of human workflows?

@trezy.codes while I'm working on my lexicon, for the sake of learning, would it be easy and make sense to make an app view with happyview for another lexicon? Say, @teal.fm for example? I want to experiment a bit. Also, can appviews live at subdomains?

On the weekly posting users per origin chart on my stats page, there's now a checkbox "Show as % of total". And we've quietly passed a pretty important milestone last month: 1% of all users on the network (making app.bsky posts) were on independent PDSes! (13k/1.3M) blue.mackuba.eu/stats/#weekl...

and just as much to @jaydip.me who deep dived into some of the UI thinking in this gorgeous article. both of these two have put so much care and thoughts and ideas and feedback into the Roomy design and it's so much better for it

Just want to especially call out in appreciation of @felinus.fish who wrote this wonderful reflection on our work process

I can't tell you how much this project has been and continues to be a labour of love. I will write more about it when I'm less in the thick of it, but I'm so excited to be able to share more with you about the work we've been doing - I'm so proud of how far we came in the last few months

I'm so hyped about this! Roomy is one of the projects I've been most excited about in this ecosystem, in no small part due to who the team is! Congratulations @meri.garden, @zicklag.dev, and @erlend.sh on this huge milestone! 👏 👏 👏

@essentialrandom.bsky.social hiya! 👋 Can I message you on Signal? I want to share some stuff I'm working on related to community/groups and while I'd typically invite you to virtual tea first, given how fast things advance I'd like to voice note an intro to me if that's cool! I'm @captaincalliope.11

Accounts (particularly huge ones like media orgs) should be able to set a "default feed" where, when you visit their profile, instead of seeing the reverse chron, gives you a feed they've created for their audience. This is a killer differentiator and @bsky.app needs to have built it a year ago.

Vibe.

@thisismissem.social Is this the girli you've been recommending? I went to go check out her music only to find I've been listening to her for years without realizing it! 😆

Turns out there's whole ecosystems of professional/business development like this out there. @chaosgreml.in I can't remember if we've talked about this yet, but I think it'd be cool to identify entrepreneurship programs of this flavor of dev+delivery+cost and raise funds for some scholarships.

The discourse around replacing Substack is based on what Substack was 2-3 years ago. There doesn't seem to be a clear understanding of what Substack is today, or where it's going. Substack isn't a tech stack problem. It's a media business model problem.

Getting called out in dm for commenting on everybody's threads in rapid succession. My apologies if I've taken over one or more of your feeds. I've fully caught up though, so done for now, I guess. 😆

@admin.atpcraft.at I'd love to join ATPcraft! I like to explore people's builds, hype them up, and gather resources for people to build with! My most toxic minecraft behavior is I also like to build hidden tunnels to connect everything. I do try and put signs up tho.

Can we reach 1000 followers in 2 days? here's a kitty

I’ve not seen anyone talking about this? but AI glasses are terrifying for doxxing reasons… it already can be scary to leave your house if your face is out but your name isn’t. I dress and do my hair differently IRL than I do online so I’m not so recognizable at a glance.

thoughts 1/3: when bluesky refactors social-app for permissioned data, they should store saved posts as lexicon.community bookmarks within the user's personal space

Gonna use this next time there's some heated atproto discourse flying around

@beaconbits.app when permissioned data drops, any plans to create a migration path for Swarm/foursquare check-ins? I've got like a decade of data in there. And another decade in Google maps placemarks too, but that's potentially a bit more involved.

Recently, we escaped the AT-Bubble to chat with some of the world's most successful game developers and publishers. The whiplash was sharp... 😅 Beyond this network, The Atmosphere is largely unknown and there's some scary risks keeping others from joining the FUN. Our reality check, in blog form:

@juliana.me Hiya! Old timey mozillian here. Was just looking into the new firefox design system cuz I'm thinking about doing some extension dev stuff at some point. Naturally ran into you and your comic! Thought it'd be weird to follow without saying hi! 👋🏼

Candace is the expert on kids and social media that politicians and the media pretend Jonathan Haidt is. And here she is debunking his whole schtick.

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Remember when Gavin Newsom got busted for partying at the French Laundry during the pandemic lockdowns? It was a birthday party for his favorite lobbyist and close friend. That lobbyist/friend's firm now works for California Forever. And Andreessen Horowitz. And Coinbase. 🤝

A reminder that my Speaking Truth to Power feed lists non-profit news that speaks truth to power in the United States, and is available -- on @surf.social (a superb app you should be using), on the web at speakingtruthtopower.surf.social, and on Bluesky as a feed at bsky.app/profile/did:...

We just increased the maximum number of pinned chats from 4 to 10, so you can show 6 more people how much you love what they have to say.

@aetheros.computer group chats are fun to click on!

Read through atproto proposal-0016 and took some notes on important points that I think are worth sharing and talking about.

"Importantly, this means that Atmospheric app builders no longer need to direct their users to the Bluesky app for account management."

@ezraboeth.com Nausicaa! 😻

Hey indie authors. Bluesky account? ✅ Books to sell? ✅ New ATProto site to try? ✅ Go to byline.pub, apply to get verified, then add your ISBN and claim your book. Bob’s your uncle. Indie books. Real authors. Portable records. ☕📚 #Indieauthors #authors

I’m so excited for this! So much of the atmosphere has been English-first or English-only to date; but we can build for so many more people, and this is a superb foundation for doing just that!

Blacksky is building ~the intercommunal net~ where communities create virtual spaces collectively managed by their members -- from moderation policies to recommender algorithms. We're hiring a Founding Engineer (Rust) @ $180K base who will report directly to me and lead our atproto implementation.

@mu.social Plz become a PWA I can install and maybe also take advantage of all PWA platform features pretty plz! 😻

Allow me re-introduce myself! My name is JD Lauwerends, I’m 30 years old, from Amsterdam and I’m the (now fulltime) Head of Trust and Safety for Blacksky. 🤓🎧