Supporting the ATmosphere 👍🏾

We have some news you can use on the blog this fine Monday! Ozone, our mod tool, is adding a new *report-based* moderation workflow, which enables higher-context moderating, better collaboration, auditing, and more! Check it: atproto.com/blog/report-...

rpg.actor is quickly turning into one of the most interesting projects on atproto. im stuck in the mines of writing about eu policy stuff this week, wish i had more time to dedicate to writing about the fun stuff people are doing on atproto

Juvenile wren is having a bit of a struggle this morning, they hit the window and got pretty lucky they didn’t fall into the canal below

Indian PM Narendra Modi: “Friends, we have to reduce the use of petrol and diesel. “In cities where there is metro, we should decide that we will use only the metro. At the most, I will travel by metro. “If it is necessary to travel by car, then try to carpool. Bring more people along. 1/

@flashes.blue is now interoperable with @grain.social and @sprk.so displaying stories that were created in any of these apps.

AI to detect birds has been around for many years and is widely used around the world to classify bird sounds. But the AI can still be fooled by an animal with a very small brain. ❤️

I love the spotvogel (icterine warbler) so much. They are amazing mimics, so once you’ve spotted one it is very funny to see how well it can trick the Merlin Bird ID app. These are all the birds that a single spotvogel managed to imitate and trick Merlin with in like 2 minutes

On the occasion of Europe Day - I've got updated language statistics of @eurosky.social users 🙂 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺

Yes there are many regional meetup groups around the world! atmosphere.community/communities We’ll have an update to share next week about the website. Now on @tangled.org, translation and theming plans underway What do you want from a community hub?

"At the end of the day, specifying a new protocol scheme is basically owning up to the fact that, while we may re-use many primitives and roles from the public data protocol, we are specifying a new data and sync protocol, not just an extension to the existing protocol. " 👀👀

If your Atmosphere Account lives on @eurosky.social then your rpg.actor will unlock this Europa Cape next time you login. Very happy to spread some #atproto delight and fun to everyone broadening our wide web, across the whole world.

What do streets think about being able to read long form content / blogs from within blacksky.community (powered by standard.site) @pckt.blog @leaflet.pub @offprint.app in the below rough demo.

@greens-efa.eu secured major wins in the EU Competitiveness Fund vote in the IMCO Committee. Stronger support for Europe’s tech sovereignty, open-source software, backing for core digital infrastructure, and explicit support for European alternatives to dominant online platforms and social media.

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

This is the first part of what we worked on this week at @unbreaking.org. These short briefings are our best attempt to turn the flood of events we record in our timelines into something you can understand and pass along without putting your whole brain in front of the firehose of bad news.

Every other week I hear from yet another European clone of some big tech social media, except with "European values" (which are conveniently never detailed). We need something different, because we can do so much better. That's why we're building Eurosky.

If you're a @firefox.com or Firefox-based browser user, @disperse.social is now available as an extension 🦊 Disperse links across the Atmosphere with just a click of a button!

hi! i'm looking for projects in the ATmosphere whose users are people in *organizations*. if that sounds like you or something you know about please reach out!

A writeup of two conferences about the fediverse this week, with @fediforum.org and the German 2MR.social conference from this week, and how they are both dealing with bridging work to both EU politics as well as atproto and the atmosphere connectedplaces.online/reports/fr16...

laurens you're a tremendous writer but please do not ever become a physician

Excited to announce that I will be giving the opening keynote for @newpublic.org + @publicspaces.net Open Social Award Show in Amsterdam next month! My keynote will discuss how we do community governance at @blackskyweb.xyz Best of luck to all applicants and hope to see you there!

In policy circles I keep hearing about "horizontal" and "vertical" interoperability, notions that I haven't encountered in tech standards. I sat down to write about why it's a limiting understanding of interoperability and how we can do better. berjon.com/interoperabi...

Had a few hours to spend in Hamburg so went to the miniature wonderland, and the way trains allows for the representation and idealisation of infrastructure seems relevant to all the data center discourse going on here

New from me: Federation Has a European Legal Problem on what the recent Russmedia ruling means for open social protocols like ActivityPub and atproto warning: do not read if you value your sanity connectedplaces.online/federation-h...

Absolutely bonkers footage of Ukrainian soldiers shooting down Russian drones in prop planes with shotguns. Not ai, came from an official Ukrainian account and verified by the WSJ.

New from me: Federation Has a European Legal Problem on what the recent Russmedia ruling means for open social protocols like ActivityPub and atproto warning: do not read if you value your sanity connectedplaces.online/federation-h...

“Amsterdam isn’t Black enough” That statement makes me laugh every single time.

Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors. Out now :) > neal.fun/cursor-camp/

If we had pan-European media, this is what the analysis and opinion pages would be discussing, in detail, from every possible angle and country, every day. Instead we Europeans are reading the NYT and the New Yorker who will NEVER discuss this. Nor will the Economist or the FT, for that matter.

Hot take: everything should be a planet. Where is the love for Makemake, Sedna, Eris, Ceres, and more Hotter take: moons are planets. Triton isn't really functionally different to Pluto, except for who its friend is. Hottest take: "dwarf" is a dehumanising word and we shouldn't use it in science

Gemma 4 runs best with liquid cooling

Growth has slowed on the open social web. We can’t win fighting Big Tech on their own turf: we need to move sideways. New ‘holdfasts’ (see @kissane.myatproto.social) won’t grow from protocols alone: we need to build communities. Some paths emerging here: www.blog-pat.ch/moving-sidew...

Reminder: the Open Social Awards submission deadline is this Friday, May 1st! It's part of The Next Socials program track at the PublicSpaces 2026 Conference with a €10,000 grand prize, put on by @newpublic.org @publicspaces.net @waag.org

@laurenshof.online proven right, as usual. atproto developers are a subculture. those have norms and rules, spoken and unspoken. this is a good thing! If we want to build a better social web, we need norms that push us toward that end, where pure tech cannot suffice.

I think more of us have discovered the limits to the "we can just do things" slogan today. There are many reasons to ask, and to engage socially, and to have care and intentionality, and to do things right, do things better. We don't have to live like this.

Got a new Gouda pottery plate for my collection at koningsdag vrijmarkt. Already had the wall plate, and new one turns out to be from same painter, dating from 1920. Very happy with this find

OMG. 🇰🇪 Sabastian Sawe becomes the first man ever to break 2 hours in a marathon (legal conditions) in 1:59:30 at the London Marathon! Yomif Kejelcha 🇪🇹 runs 1:59:41 in his DEBUT. Jacob Kiplimo 🇺🇬 takes third in 2:00:28 All under the previous WR.

Another great piece of analysis of the new social web from @laurenshof.online "Networks become resilient when people decide to actually build them. And it seems that the main open question is: what will be the shape of the organisations that will actually build the future of the social internet?"

> Acorn lets people form communities on @blackskyweb.xyz itself, which turns Blacksky into the substrate for a federation of communities rather than a single community.

new from me, on network resilience and protocol eschatology connectedplaces.online/reports/fr16...

carousel discourse is how i find out my apps don’t update automatically

We Want You!🫵 New_ Public, PublicSpaces & Waag Futurelab are teaming up to launch the game-changing Open Social Awards.🏆 ▶️ conference.publicspaces.net/en/award ▶️ app.formbricks.com/s/cmn3lqvw6b... Apply by May 1, 2026✅ Let’s terraform our social mediascape & #FreeTheFuture — together!🫂 #LLAP🖖

behind-the-scenes 😉

👀 We’re doing this for our news app, a native in our app feed based on Bluesky/ATProto

For anyone building new apps and tools on ATproto that are … 🌐 on the Open Web 🌱 past the prototype stage ✨ reimagining the social internet New_ Public, @publicspaces.net and @waag.org are investing up to €10,000 in alternatives to Big Tech Learn more, share, or apply by May 1st newpublic.org/OSA

I'm excited to announce another guest post on the atproto.com blog! This time, we're featuring @spacecowboy17.bsky.social, the maintainer of the popular For You Feed (bsky.app/profile/spac...)! atproto.com/blog/serving...

Training people to participate in platform governance exclusively by hollering and then letting them into an ecosystem where the only real change lever is exit has sure produced a wild demonstration of “if it fails, do it harder.”