Semble alpha is now open! ✨ Check it out at semble.so More details in our leaflet pub! (link in next post > )

being utopian about the web is very 90s but this is like everything people dreamed the web would be. I need to read more about atproto asap overreacted.io/open-social/

*googling uhh who slays hydra?* —and Jared's efforts here have been positively herculean!

appreciate this, and others suggesting leaflet here! the quoted substack meme by @bell.bz as of rn has 9 quotes and 4 of em mention Leaflet…feeling good about that 🙏✨ @tynanpurdy.com @byarielm.fyi @ewancroft.uk thx y'all :)

*adding one more name to my list of incumbent walled garden creator platforms slapping janky social networks atop flimsy foundations to put out of their misery by building better alternatives on open protocols that give users more flexibility and control with a rich ecosystem of interoperable tools*

atproto …🤔 global network 🔀 _blogal_ network 🤯‼️

If you’re out of ideas, invent a place where you could find ideas. An orchard of regret where the fruit on the bough are unsent love letters. A grocery store where you can buy a better childhood. You do not have to begin with something; it is often more useful to begin with somewhere.

Inspired by @joebasser.com to mess around with some AT Proto logos too... Do any of these speak to you?!

> Calvino then takes a sharp detour into topology. > Reading is strength training for labyrinth-solving. great post!

games with not only branching narratives but layered / nesting / "windowed" interactions…cool! > The story here is structured with various small game engines being embedded into eachother (they’re all HTML based, so things like iframe)… Bitsy is embedded in Twine, and all that is running in Unreal.

If you're here now, it's going to be some of y'all's job in a lil bit to make new spaces that bud off leaflet and bring back these cozy vibes

interesting link HT @smarmy.bsky.social! maybe not *quite* the point of the linked piece but now I want my own readerly eclecticism score & comparative ranking against my friends lol culturalanalytics.org/article/1429...

Strongly believe atproto could be the foundation of an *amazing* stack for education infrastructure

this looks great! > Host static sites in your AT Protocol account. You keep ownership and control. We just serve them fast through our CDN. I can def see moving schlage.town [need to update!] to something like this

do you want to play games in the grass with a big group of people? great! then come meet us in fort greene for: - a chill intro & warmup activities on blankets - warm, decaf tea - field games in the "new games" tradition - games with two parachutes - & more (please read on for more details!)

see replies for a poem, a catalog of absence, an emoji playground sketched in negative

great posts from @bront.rodeo — thoughts from 30 days of atproto experimentation & comments on the state of the atmosphere, what could be improved, what feels exciting… lesser-daemon.leaflet.pub

forgot to follow up earlier but: last week's nyc atproto meetup was a lot of fun! ~20 ppl there, great to see familiar faces & meet new folks! we talked about doing another prob early in the new year :) this one was very casual, next time can try maybe a liiiitle more structure / a few short talks

Hell yeah, @awarm.space reminds me of your idea to have like trending topics as blogging prompts in @leaflet.pub Could be nice to mix timely & evergreen topics, serious & fun, daily & weekly, quick riffs & thoughtful slower conversation… If we experiment with this in Leaflet…how should it work?

oh TIL WordPress has a new "Reader"! recommendations seems cool wordpress.com/discover weird / half-baked in many ways though: - inline comments in preview? makes no sense before reading! - but…clicking prompts log in even just to read, wtf? - they have a weird half-assed daily writing prompt?

For #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver in March 2026, we're looking for feedback on what you want to see. Please fill out the call for interest form, including suggesting topics and features.

pictured: leaflet & the atmosphere homies [context: from a session at IETF, working towards making parts of atproto more official internet standards…very cool!]

ALRIGHT FRIENDS, let's get you READY and WRITING! have you hit your MACROBLOGGING MACROS today?? "I WILL WRITE [N] WORDS" "I WILL CREATE [N] DRAFTS" "I WILL PUBLISH [N] POSTS" FIRE UP ALLL YOUR @leaflet.pub PUBS! UNFURL IDEAS over MANY PARAGRAPHS! TODAY your CHARACTER COUNT is INFINITE!

Join us this Winter for an all-levels writing class that explores how poetry and radical, experimental forms of expression can help us remain present amid ongoing global violations against life. ❁ sfpc.study/sessions/win...

. @aaronpierron.com just launched dontblunder.com, a super cool site for getting better at chess. You get a mid-game chess board, make a move, then get a score (as well as see the optimal move). HN thread: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4577...

Caught up in election night madness? Then this post isn't for you, you're busy. For everybody else, this is a really good writeup on how much blogging on Leaflet crushes and why blogging on atproto has juice

nice list of "50 Reasons to Build a Website": frontendmasters.com/blog/50-reas... - via @jimray.net! strikes me that many (~half?) are bc ppl want an expressive Place to Publish, but don't need a whole CMS ofc I <3 custom sites too but I think @leaflet.pub can be great for many of these cases!

Pay attention to the ATProto community in addition to Bluesky the platform. @leaflet.pub, @tangled.org, @stream.place, @germnetwork.com are doing some amazing stuff with the protocol, and the real vision is starting to come to life.

can't believe you just shared our whole roadmap like this @aaronrosspowell.com 😂 but seriously: great piece & hits a lot of incisive points about how we can make the blogosphere better, appreciate it & hope to do as many of these things as we can! notifications coming soon; working on tags too :)

shout out Jake for posting A LOT this past month! a whole creative corpus of handmade games, really fun to see!

I feel like this (or something close to it) must exist?! Like the "my bangers" feed (RIP) but for everyone! It'd be very fun to have that here…and more broadly, a ton of value in surfacing great evergreen content / countering the default ephemerality bias of shortform platforms

current state of our "what blocks to add next in leaflet?" poll lotta footnote sickos out there in the atmosphere blogosphere! haha table, footnote, image gallery have stayed neck and neck (and neck), I think we'll *at least* have to add all three of those lab.leaflet.pub/3m4eb5htqvs2z

Ah yes - my favorite month of the year: Know Cnut November! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut

Unfortunately @tangled.org will be down this month in honor of no knot november

starting on my research for known hut november

bigger q here: we're thinking about how to bring the wider *blogosphere* into the *atmosphere* with @leaflet.pub as conduit, like a way to leaflet-ify your site hosted elsewhere… publishers add external site to leaflet + use as a social layer? personal web + open social on atproto… ideas welcome!

a thought I've had twice in as many days: I wish I could quote *anything* on the internet and share to leaflet…somehow!

love the bit here on *vernacular institutions*, useful lens!

very cool, love the format! > The book is composed of two interwoven booklets… This turns the process of reading into a combinatorial game, with different pairings arising depending on the shuffle. When closed, the book is roughly the size of a passport or modern smartphone, meant to be pocketable.

this looks great! now they just need to make a bluesky profile…and ditch the substack for a leaflet blog 😊

for this week's atproto news I'm comparing todays Dutch election result with how active the politicians are on Bluesky and in other news: - GreenEarth is building personalised algos on atproto, with 300k in funding - more interop between publishing platforms - polls on leaflet

Appreciate the nudge on this & good to clarify. Not sure I agree there's a universal expectation of privacy for polls though—works that way e.g. on Twitter, but common e.g. on Discord for poll votes to be transparent. Curious what ppl think / if we struck the right balance here.

Might anyone know of modern / contemporary artists whose work centers on the sun, light, and the solstice? I'm thinking of Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels, Emily Sheffer's Winter Solstice cyanotype project, etc...

It's a good time to write a book about a single game/series! There's the great work being published by @bossfightbooks.com And now three of the best scholarly presses have joined in ...

I ended up implementing the poll lexicon just scoped under pub.leaflet but could p easily migrate it in the future if we come to a shared one! Would love to use this to bootstrap a general purpose poll tool.

We've got a new block: POLLS! And we'd love for you to test it out by voting on the top block you'd like to see us add — we've got a shortlist, but comment if there's another you'd put first :) Coming soon: publishing standalone docs to atproto, to more easily make one-off polls for anything!

great post! I'm loving @catabush.com's writing on poetry & this is maybe my favorite post so far, getting at how language works differently in rhymed vs free verse, memorization and mystification, finding balance in felt pleasure vs puzzle…

appreciate this from @anirudh.fi re: building @tangled.org ~FOR THE PEOPLE~ something I think captures our approach with leaflet too, more bottoms-up / emergent use cases / supporting a long tail of creative communities vs. chasing enterprise contracts!

this is TODAY! — in just a couple hours :) come hang! sent a reminder msg to all who RSVP'd but this is very casual, feel free to RSVP last minute if you're just seeing this, lots to talk and scheme and dream about, also I will get some pizza

tiny case study for why we need universal atproto notifications! our brooklyn atproto meetup is today — CONSIDER THIS A REMINDER! — but only ~1/3 of total rsvps gave email ideal atproto events app would have partiful-style reminders, but sent as atproto notifs, no email / sms integration needed!