🚨Emergency Update 🚨 @theonion.com

Do you use the term "self-sovereign"—for identity, for keys, for your wallet? If you do, it was ten years ago today I chose this term, using it to describe an inalienable right to control your own digital life. We've learned much in the last decade, so I'm offering an update.🧵…

This sounds terrifying - call an LLMbulance!

IMO it's a good day when fox is forced to double down on their hyper hypocrisy

History in the making I know this may sound just a tiiny bit ridiculous, but: To me this is the equivalent to pictures from the 5th Solvay conference, but more diverse (as it should have been back then I guess, lol) rarehistoricalphotos.com/solvay-confe...

'smart phones = EVIL' 'dumb phones = USEFUL' Article suggests that this is about 'privacy'. IMO, it's about 'business models'. Current smart-phone-app-based industry is driven by selling capability to advertisers/propagandists to change user opinions. Dumb phones do not offer that capability.

In soviet russia, sky blues you.

#ATmosphereConf #atproto if you see a project dedicated to relay operation within russia - please broadcast widely, so we can show support

Was fun while it lasted but I am happy to recognise that @sifa.id is doing what I wanted sooo much better than I was able to achieve, and I would love if @lanyards.app users signed up for sifa.id instead.

i’m not sure about opt out. should it be granular like blocking attie? or block appearing in all “ai” feeds and such? or “block in algorithms” as “algorithm” opposers ask for? i wonder if there should be a declaration like “i only want to be reached via Following”. maybe win win to not see those?

We’ll look into ways to take into account the preferences expressed by people who’ve blocked @attie.ai. The team has been making progress towards private accounts. There was a lot of good feedback on the tech at ATmosphereConf this week, and we’ll have more to share soon.

Germ x Blacksky x Eurosky x Bluesky #AtmosphereConf ❤️ @germnetwork.com, @blackskyweb.xyz, @eurosky.social, @bsky.app

‘The Whole Directory’ Feels like a big step in post-platform history to me. Like a ‘toothpaste is out of the tube’ moment, with respect to this idea: A world without fundamental dependence on one ‘identity provider’ is possible. #atmosphereconf

let’s get them @blento.app tags while they’re hot By @flo-bit.dev #ATmosphereConf

Today's the day. America has no king. Come out and stand together in solidarity for freedom. #NoKings Find your event: www.nokings.org

'pushing for interoperability' seems to be 2nd nature for a critical mass of people at #atmosphereconf 🚀 knotbin.leaflet.pub/3lx3uqveyj22... @knotbin.com @audreyt.org

Lea: A Social App for Researchers Asst. Prof. Maria Antoniak (Uni. Colorado Boulder) @mariaa.bsky.social atscience.leaflet.pub/3mfz526irfs2y #atmosphereconf

Let’s get organized - using @semble.so #atmosphereconf

20k Euro prize pool for active open social projects from the past couple years. atproto app and project devs, get in there and apply!

Blacksky is excited to announce Acorn, a platform for growing and managing communities on decentralized infrastructure. blackskyweb.xyz/introducing-...

cleptocracy 🤝 autocracy 'Pay What You Need to Say What You Want' www.youtube.com/watch?v=nctQ... #media #fcc #uspol #dailyshow

Reinventing fedidrama from first principles 🤭

I really dig the momentum and energy within bsky/atproto! But, please let me point out: ** The DID:PLC directory that currently underpins 'the whole atmosphere' is still maintained by Bluesky PBLLC and hosted by AWS in Ohio ** While this announcement is 6 months old: docs.bsky.app/blog/plc-dir...

"Your research institute on the Atmosphere", my @atproto.science workshop late Friday pm, before #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver, is open for speakers. Would you like to get involved? 🧵 atscience.leaflet.pub/3mfz526irfs2...

Honestly this weekend was when OpenAI jumped the shark for me. I was willing to extend them benefit of the doubt right up to the point where they signed a contract with the government that allows autonomous weapons, while telling everyone that it prohibits them.

Breaking news: @eurosky.social is a 🕵️‍♀️ CIA psyop taken down by a €2.95 request to a Dutch chamber of commerce. Sources have revealed that one of the team is... 🫨 American

Not sure if the ‘Lack of Patriotism’ and ‘Enemy Within’ narrative will work in this context. Goering claimed that it always does: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave... Historically, we know that even zen priests can be whipped up like that, but what about those that are chronically dopamine depleted?

THIS.

What could ‘Anti Proprietary Media’ mean? Any form of mass communication that is ‘based on infrastructure’ that ‘cannot be owned privately’? Seems feasible in all modern non-police-states, doesn’t it?

We've released a self-hostable reference implementation of a PLC read-replica service to make the Atmosphere ever more decentralized. @retr0.id has details on what this all means. atproto.com/blog/plc-rep...

Incredible www.instagram.com/reel/DUtTdIz...

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Join us for an informal AT Protocol meetup February 24, 2026 in Berlin! We'll share project updates, demos, and lessons learned building on ATProto. Please RSVP: smokesignal.events/did:plc:oals... Location: Bitcrowd offices Köpenickerstr 126 10179 Berlin

✨ 𝗗𝗪𝗲𝗯 𝗨𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 + 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻 🛸 Sat 28 Feb we’ll meet at @c-base.org, Berlin with @brewster.kahle.org, @internetarchive.eu, and many new and long-time DWeb allies! Join us to contribute shaping #DWebCamp 2026 🏕️ Free attendance, limited spots! 🎟️ All info + RSVP

‘protocol survival’ sounds a bit like a category mistake to me. So maybe this question doesn’t make much sense, but: What would be the ‘survival rate maximizing strategies’ in this context?

This separates ATP from Bluesky dependency. If Bluesky fails, the protocol survives as internet standard. Same level as HTTP or TCP/IP, not application layer like programming languages. RFC publication takes time. But the charter shows serious commitment.

Just learned about FediSky, a project by @msonnberger.com that adds an ActivityPub instance sidecar to a PDS. Think Bridgy Fed except hosted by the PDS owner or Wafrn except reversed. Still in early dev, but keeping an eye on this space 👀

Voller @concordia.at bei der Gründungsveranstaltung des Netzwerks für gemeinwohlorientierten Journalismus in Österreich - zu Webseite mit Abo-Option für (low-traffic) Newsletter: gemeinwohljournalismus.wordpress.com

My colleague and I wrote a piece about the urgent need for Europe to partner with Canada in building a digitally sovereign ecosystem—one that can withstand the threats posed by US tech authoritarianism:

Im neuen Netzwerk Gemeinwohljournalismus sind Medien, die ihre journalistische Arbeit vor Gewinnabsichten stellen - auch wir. Am Mittwoch stellt die Initiative sich im Presseclub Concordia vor. Wir freuen uns über euer Interesse an und auf den Austausch. gemeinwohljournalismus.wordpress.com

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from 66 international bodies, including the Freedom Online Coalition. With this move, the US has formally stepped away from a core part of its leadership of the global Internet norms it once helped build, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.

I just submitted to present at #ATmosphereConf on the topic of "Advocating for Digital Sovereignty: 🇪🇺 Experiences and Global Lessons" Hope to see you soon in #Vancouver #Canada 🇨🇦

Announcing our first conference! #ATscience March 27, 2026 will happen in conjunction with #ATmosphereConf 2026 in Vancouver, Canada. atproto.science/events/atmos... Speakers will be announced in the new year

Yo #atproto #atmosphere #bluesky folks at #39c3 \o/ Who’s up for an adhoc get-together? How about: #houseoftea Starting around 0:30 tonight (aka early morning of day 4) seqre.dev burrito.space retr0.id wills.co.tt filippo.abyssdomain.expert Alternative proposals welcome 🙏

Four public-interest researchers have been barred from the US for holding tech companies accountable. When governments target researchers, journalists and watchdogs, it is an assault on free speech and we should call it out as such. Researchers are not censors. They are being censored. 1/3

who’s at #39C3 and also interested in #atproto #didplc related meetups and workshops? (or knows someone who might be?) @atproto.science @eurosky.social @atprotocol.dev @tgoerke.bsky.social @wake.st @renderg.host @bmann.ca @bnewbold.net

'our digital public sphere - the actual battlefield of democratic resilience' +1 Also, rough consensus on a common (updated) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaga... seems useful.