This is a *fantastic* read, anyone who cares about Bluesky should certainly be subscribed to Connected Places, 👏 @laurenshof.online!

This is a fantastic article. Still trying to digest it, which means it got all kinds of pistons firing. I have so many questions too. I hope more analysis is coming!

Great post by @laurenshof.online. This stood out as an incredibly succinct summarization of what has been going on in the culture and why even using Kirk’s own words gets people pilloried. connectedplaces.online/blueskyism-p...

There’s so much to dig into here: content moderation as a societal good, the need to fight not only enshittification but also authoritarianism. If you’ve ever wondered why we need competitive, open social networks, this one’s for you.

‘Blueskyism’, Political Violence, and Open Social Networks Under Authoritarianism on how the last weeks have shifted the threat model for open social networks: from fighting platform decay to the threat of authoritarianism connectedplaces.online/blueskyism-p...

you know things are great when @matt-levine.bsky.social is posting this warning in his newsletter, and the section above it is about xAI valuations

excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service

hello from my own PDS

sick album www.youtube.com/watch?v=novs...

Fediverse Report 134 - this week's #fediverse news - @Mastodon#fediverseshows their quote post implementation, coming next week - @anewsocial 's Bridgy Fed makes it easier to see interactions to your post on other networks with a new DM feature https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-134/

turned off auto updating for ios just in time so i dont get stuck with liquid glass

for atproto devs, all the atproto tech news of the last week or so

Saw a ringslang (grass snake) today on my hike!!

Keenan Mundane is legit

this week's Bluesky Report has some thoughts on how I'm writing about the news, and also: - How Bluesky continues to become an integral place to discuss academic research - @graze.social finds Bluesky to be highly effective for promoted posts in custom feeds connectedplaces.online/reports/blue...

what a lovely day, I sure hope nothing bad happens

i know facts dont matter and this is about creating a permission structure, but still: custom feeds like the Catchup Feed, which shows the most liked posts of the last 24h on the entire network, make it very easy to see what the actual zeitgeist of bsky is bsky.app/profile/did:...

Conversations around decentralisation and the open social web have gotten fairly unproductive, resulting in a letter calling for mutual respect Im signing it, and with that, I have thoughts regarding discourse, decentralisation and why this space matters. connectedplaces.online/on-discourse...

damn Weval's new album is great, dopamine is a banger open.spotify.com/album/3Hqy5F...

This weeks fedi news is about how the Nepali government shut down virtually all social media over the weekend, leading to massive protests. Included in the list was mastodon, leading to mastodon.social becoming unavailable. Bluesky was not included. connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

whats interesting this is happening while kpop still functions on assumptions of the old world order, and it is actively pandering towards america see apple+ new kpopped documentary which has kpop idols in duets with western pop idols, or aespa's visuals for rich man

uhhhhh these geopolitical alignment shifts are happening crazy fast

so why did bluesky even bother with making bookmarks private then? - private bookmarks are still accessible by bsky pbc in case of t&s stuff - bookmarking is still are displayed with public engagement statistics

a new platform to make introductions for other people to potentially follow. Takes a much more personal and intimate direction to solve for user discoverability, in contrast with starter packs

me every time im playing league

the atproto tech news of the last two weeks, with the first small steps towards atproto becoming an ietf spec and a lot of cool new tech stuff

the tradition of clients implementing bluesky's own new features before bluesky has them continues the TOKIMEKI client has implemented bookmarks via bluesky's new api before the bluesky-social client has them

i think the actual optimal outcome here is that we end up with 2 text-based atproto platforms: - one with a character limit of 300 (or even lower) and no media - one with a high/no character limit and media

all the atproto software news and updates of the last week or so, with new book tracking platforms and more longform writing platforms starting to appear

trump's truth social and erdogan's next sosyal federating with each only other (they both use mastodon) would truly be the most cursed and funniest timeline

www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti... i think about this piece by @himself.bsky.social a lot

this week's fediverse news is about Next Sosyal, a new social media platform with close ties to the Turkish ruling party that is based on Mastodon, but does not federate connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

atproto Subreddits atproto Facebook Groups atproto Usenet Groups Lemmy for atproto These are analogies you can think of for what I’m trying to do with Blacksky Algorithms long term.

private bookmarks are coming 👀

EU was scheduled to release a fine against Google. It was pulled at the last minute due to EU-US trade tensions. Great scoop from MLex.

a grab bag of links related to atproto and bluesky

i think a more useful metric to understand the impact of any of the new social platforms, including bluesky, is to see how many popular posts there are discussing the ongoing protests in Indonesia

What happens if Substack continues with their lock-in of writers, but other platforms on the open social web can offer better distribution and discovery?

The Netherlands is a lovely place! The cities are charming and walkable, the people friendly and honest, the food is often sufficient for typical calorific needs.

I'm reminded of @laurenshof.online calling this post format "hashtags for people who cannot read" lol

anyone has any thoughts on this new did:nostr did method? nostrcg.github.io/did-nostr/

'group consciousness powering initial infrastructure' gets to the core of it all. his article is about art and culture, but it can apply just as much to new emerging subcultures, for i dunno, people building new social networks

a deep dive into the messy substrate and coordination layers below decentralised networks, and how authoritarian thinkers like peter thiel view this substrate as a way to capture networks connectedplaces.online/socialhub-an...

this week's fedi news, with stuff worth paying attention to for atproto ppl: - google's requirements for clients with user-generated content seem to increase, which is impacting app development - age verification law compliance is messy connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

New Scientist @newscientistnl.bsky.social schreef een leuke recensie over mijn boek Koolstofkoorts: 'Crezee toont zich een gedreven onderzoeksjournalist, die aan de hand van gedegen uitzoekwerk kritiek uit op de schimmige wereld van de koolstofhandel.' www.newscientist.nl/recensie/koo...

You can read @laurenshof.online's latest long-form post directly on @anisota.net thx to the fact it supports @leaflet.pub documents/posts. You don't even need to sign-in... so if you want a taste of anisota, check it out: 🕯️ https://anisota.net/profile/laurenshof.online/document/3lx2sjrgqj22s 🕯️

bluesky and atproto news of the last 2 weeks: - A new ToS and community guidelines for bsky - @anisota.net pushes boundaries of what a bsky client can be - @cosmik.network gets 1M funding to build a knowledge network for researchers on atproto connectedplaces.online/reports/atmo...