Everywhere there's a social layer online, there can be atmosphere...

What are people's favourite niche tools/apps to showcase ATproto? Things like coral.waow.tech or @flushes.app

I wrote about what I've been calling "The Everything Account" If you're familiar with The Atmosphere, you already know how to get one, and this should hopefully help you explain it to others. For those of you who aren't, you'll be surprised to know you already have one; here's how you use it:

🎥 Arco (2025) ★★★★★ Absolutely beautiful in animation and story. Might be my favourite film of 2026 so far.via @popfeed.social

Movin fast.

blog.joebasser.com/3mdvuirqog22... People here might in particularly interested in this section of my latest leaflet! Exploring follows.

Yeaaa @upscrolled.bsky.social this just isn’t correct.

Testing something. (My friend’s band)

It’s true @schlage.town spits bars.

Starting a band just so I can upload tracks to @plyr.fm

@alexbenzer.com ships

Every time someone tells me that interoperable protocols are too complicated for the average person, I point out that they use email and the web. The goal needs to be to get atproto to the point that it is just "how the internet works" and the details fade into the background like https & smtp.

We're delighted to be hosting @richferro.com's NFL Playoffs custom feed in collaboration with @bsky.app today! This is a shining example of something only the open social web can do, and why open social will win 🧵

Didn’t realise @pfrazee.com also plays QB for the Seahawks

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

The answer….is 42. Congrats @bsky.app 42M lesgooooo

Weekend explorations

I have been and continue to be, team Atmosphere. Also Atmosphere account.

My thoughts on the TikTok acquisition: 1/6 We’re entering a media plutocracy. The most powerful systems of information distribution are controlled by people deeply entangled with government. When that happens, censorship doesn’t arrive suddenly. It seeps in, slowly, until control feels normal.

TikTok is dead. Use Spark instead.

@rokhanna.bsky.social's office putting out a resolution that includes supporting creators owning their own data and social graphs. H/t @tynanpurdy.com

“My worry all along is that we may have traded fears of foreign propaganda for the reality of domestic propaganda,” @anupamchander.bsky.social Alternatives built on open protocols are inherently more censorship resistant.

Things are feeling very Atmospheric…

www.theverge.com/tech/864768/... Great article by @allisonjo1.bsky.social. Open algorithmic choice and competition is the way

W is a new European platform aspiring to be an alternative to X. What if we told you that it may actually be launching as an ATProto powered app? This is a W for ATProto atprotocol.dev/w-for-atproto/

Any ATProto T&S people have much experience working with Tremau?

This is a thing that @bmann.ca and I talk about constantly. Building with joy for other people where they are today and tomorrow is why we're here. Being informed by the past is important, especially in this moment, but we can't go back to the past, even when we want to do things differently today

Absolutely rapid

Uhh X for you algo now open source… github.com/xai-org/x-al...

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Happy birthday to THE PRODIGY @knotbin.com

⭐ A ★★★★½ review of The Sopranos - Season 1 (1999)

why was @stream.place not mentioned or highlighted here?? feels like a truly huge oversight and L

“the everything app” is a stupid, hopeless, harmful, no good, toxic, impossible idea “the everything ecosystem” is good, natural, resilient, attractive, sustainable, achievable, and currently within reach thanks to @atproto.com

Any fitness social apps on atproto being worked on? Strava-esque. Would use a lot.

@lopatto.bsky.social based.

Something is happening on @bsky.app. For the first time *ever*, we're seeing durable, modest, realistic growth, and it couldn't be happening at a better time. Are we about to hit escape velocity?

It’s so wholesome 🥰

Popfeeeeeeeed

OAuth got hands, but this is @knotbin.com

I fear a blogpost is required

One of the things must folks don't appreciate is that platforms like X and FB & Tiktok have pixel trackers embedded everywhere around the web. They gather your preferences based on what other sites share about you with them. Sites do this to get better ad targeting. BSky doesn't have that.

Short answer: we actually already tried doing bluesky lexicon and the whole debate over it and different implementations took months so i'm honestly so over this debate. Long answer: i'm actually not over it and our whole journey with it is what my talk proposal at atmosphereconf is about

Proud of this. A lot more Bsky integration coming so do not fret. Particularly proud of the fully custom editor, great for editing stories! Speaking of which - there is a story manager. You can decide whether they’re deleted from your PDS or just not shown after 24hrs (for potential future uses).

A great little thread for distinct social graphs. @sprk.so will definitely be taking ‘hints’ from existing ones (like Bsky), already in the works.

Let’s 100 Davids vs. Goliath this shit.

Spark Social is now looking better to me as the ATProto TikTok alternative @sprk.so Needs more creators, but the overall feel has improved

Spark is now in open beta. Download here: iOS: testflight.apple.com/join/uYpnjh37 Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...