Hot off the internets — there's a brand new kid on the DASL block: Web Tiles! It's still early days, some key features are missing, and there are some rough edges, but you can publish tiles to AT and play with the idea! webtil.es

Trust is multi-layered. To trust a claim, you must be able to trust the chain that relayed it (cryptography helps, but isn't enough), AND the originating institution. When claims are AI-generated, who do we trust? Our new piece argues that trust in AI providers equals trust in incentives and values.

Who took this photo? When? Where? You can answer these questions with cryptography. Read our new post to learn how: https://hypha.coop/dripline/who-took-this-photo/

Relatedly-ish, a2ui.org and json-render.dev. I don't know if either will go anywhere but it seems to be getting some attention

@makeworld.space spends a lot of time correcting our use of words here at Hypha, so we thought we'd ask him to write a glossary of some commonly used terms in the spaces of provenance and digital trust. Never let a good deed go unpunished!

A reflection: a dedicated person who does this work helps, yes, but it's not sufficient unless they're able to operate in an environment where there are trodden paths from money to work. That's not where ATproto is rn. The challenge is shaping a funding environment to create funnels.

Gotta figure out how to make atproto a full time gig. I know several of us are in a similar boat. It would be sweet to be doing what I’m doing now, and a bit more and as the 9-5.

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Today I'm excited to announce @sequoia.pub: a CLI for self-hosted blogs to publish @standard.site lexicons to the ATmosphere sequoia.pub/blog/introdu...

Our members <3 open source!

Meet Osprey V1.0, a new open source online safety tool designed to help platforms investigate and address their priority threats at scale, without sacrificing data privacy or performance. roost.tools/blog/introdu...

This is why we need open platforms.

Adding to Anil's reminder, as atproto becomes more robust, there's increasingly less reason for any "alt" social media site to build its own technical infrastructure from scratch. Social interaction deserves to be built into the fabric of the web.

ATProto devs did you know you can use selfhosted.social for users to create brand new accounts on the atmosphere in your applications? Both deckbelcher.com and blento.app uses our PDS. A user's journey into the atmosphere does not always have to be started from Bluesky. It can start from your app.

a huge congrats to @skylight.social for building an amazing alternative to TikTok on ATprotocol. Excited for your growth and success!

message integrity and provenance capabilities are table stakes going forward

Big Update to the Big DASL: it now supports streaming verification with range retrieval. Many thanks to @b5.bsky.social for bringing that in! dasl.ing/bdasl.html

I'm particularly excited about a lot of the indie and coop media that's sprung up as a natural consequence of platforms centralizing and squeezing journalists out. But we're still in the early stages of knitting new info infrastructures together in places like the Atmosphere.

Oops, I started a new project: Skyreader, an RSS reader on the AT Protocol. Share cool articles like it's 2010 and Google Reader would never die. skyreader.app www.disnetdev.com/blog/2026-01...

atproto question: do we have a standard lexicon for cross-app notification consent yet? specifically: “this app is allowed to mention me” as a portable, revocable record in a user’s repo. it feels like a useful primitive for interop without spam.

I've gotten this question from a lot of #GameDev: "How can I, a game developer, make use of ATProto in my games?" So I wrote an article to address my work in a way that makes more sense for game developers, especially those that don't know (or care) about ATProto.

worked pdsfs example into the article: overreacted.io/a-social-fil... i've been cutting it in and out but couldn't quite find the right placement. i think i'm happy with this section now

Anthropic is eating everyone elses lunch right now because they focused on making a good coding agent and their alignment mission isnt bonkers. "Sane, boring and useful" is going to win.

Thanks for the shout out! We've had a lot of fun working with you on DASL.

We talk about importing social graphs and at the same time many of us also keep thinking about eg Google Circles and the general difficulty of maintaining different degrees of friendship/maintaining/presenting different facets of personality. People hack around this by having pseudonymous alts...

This is vital work and it's really exciting to see NorthSky take it on! Kudos, friends!

(To be clear, streamers could do this themselves before, but soon you can promote other people to moderate your chat! Thanks to Hypha for the implementation and @thisismissem.social for review on the design)

We just added moderation to @stream.place! Soon streamers will be able to assign moderators who can manage chat messages and livestream metadata. github.com/streamplace/...

Interested in how the co-op model works for creative studios? Check out this free webinar coming up Jan 20: buff.ly/zrNMYnA

I am so glad Moxie is building again. We all benefit. The architecture described here is how to use cloud for compute in a privacy-preserving way.* In this case, for a personal AI agent. *Yes, I'm aware TEEs have been broke in the past... confer.to/blog/2026/01...

For decades, Canadians eagerly rushed onto US tech platforms and services. But now the drawbacks of that dependence are on full display. For @policyalternatives.ca, I explain the economic and political consequences of a US-dominated internet — and why digital sovereignty is imperative.

A very comprehensive overview of the Cooperative AI conference we attended last month in Istanbul. Love that the group photo has a cat in it - so typical. 🐈

Imagine a __________ AI. Fill in the blank with your choice of inspired adjective from this new Metagov zine -> Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention buff.ly/TMQCQ1l

This year, we wrapped a huge milestone on our Distributed Press project. Read our reflections on the highs and lows of running a multi-year open source project. Sending love out to the team that made this work possible - ¡Gracias a todos! and thank you 🪴

We're at #NeurIPS2025 with papers, posters, workshops, fireside chats, & talks across the conference. Come learn about our latest research + see live demos!

To celebrate, we’ve partnered with Parasail to offer free access to Olmo 3-Think (32B), our flagship fully open reasoning model, through Dec 22. Try it here: www.saas.parasail.io/serverless?n... & openrouter.ai/allenai/olmo...

"Instead of building our own clouds, I want us to own the cloud. Keep all of the great parts about this feat of technical infrastructure, but put it in the hands of the people rather than corporations." This article prompted a bunch of discussion at Hypha - what do you think?

It's the final days to complete our Cooperative AI survey. Love AI? Great, fill in our survey and let us know why. Hate AI? Great, fill in our survey and let us know why. You get the idea. Help us develop better tech! buff.ly/jsbEheV

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Can't wait to see your talks!

Some vague (😅) updates on our next event, a call for help, #Eurosky, AI journos caught in the act, users showing their own agency, and much more in this edition of #ProtocolsForPublishers! protocolsforpublishers.com/dont-let-tec...

What are some good conferences for us to attend in the coming year? It's been fun meeting you all IRL in November

Our platform is here for you to test. After a year of building with 15,000+ co-op members, our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor is live for testing at alpha.subvert.fm Join today to help test it before public launch.

“[open social] must be funded like infrastructure, not consumer apps. In fact, given the scale of hybrid threats, it should be funded from defense budgets, not innovation leftovers. The strategic layer of democracy is the information layer. And right now, it is outsourced.” @seabass.bsky.social

And here the reflections after the event platform.coop/blog/when-wo...

Welcome back, Outland! We're excited to see what comes out of this new nonprofit art-tech publication.

@getdweb.net gave us a shoutout in their recent newsletter because we host their website, and a Discord-Matrix bridge. We like running infrastructure for our friends :)

Survey is still open! Give us your opinions 📊

Hypha ❤️ @stream.place ❤️ C2PA

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