Guess who's responsible for today's #AtmosphericUX tour de force: embedding "Don't have one? Buy one!" directly in pckt's domain picker? While we wait for a brief case study explaining *how* this integration happened so quickly, peek at the minimal lexicons used: pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...

To figure out the magnitude of the current beef between @eurosky.social and @wsocial.eu, I wanted to know: How much traction is each European service getting when it comes to hosting active users on their respective PDSes? Is their PDS value-add any bigger than other independent apps?

Three brilliant things about community infra services from @microcosm.blue et al: 1. They're famously efficient enough that most still run on (beefy) RPis 2. Folks don't need to run their own instance 3. The etiquette is to use an existing one + tip whoever's running it so it stays up but ...

Easy AT heuristic for distinguishing TID vs CID strings Timestamps are shorter, starting with '3f' thru '3m' (2022-now) now = retr0.id/stuff/atclock/ code = mary.my.id/tools/tid-co... spec = atproto.com/specs/tid Content ids are longer, starting with 'bayfrei' spec = atproto.com/specs/data-m...

Quick terminology note on a pair of hashtags I occasionally use: #AtmosphericUX = maximizing the impact of a clever lexicon choice #BrilliantUX = surfacing one key interaction (or phrasing) In both cases, the goal is to inspire other designers by focusing attention on great UX details. Enjoy!

Today's #BrilliantUX answers the question: what's more user-friendly than storing data in your own PDS? Not storing anything anywhere except your local browser

open protocols: if anyone builds it, everyone thrives

When I say: "I'm really interested in the at protocol" What people hear: "I post a lot on liberal Twitter" What I mean: "I'm interested in building highly interoperable apps on a global scale, distributed database, with decentralized data ownership"

If you're a fan of CRDT-based science projects, here are some intriguing 🧵s for you

Plenty more to come for bsky sports, but beyond anything else I appreciate that our culture here is one of celebration and enjoyment vs. dunking, rage bait, and harassment. Bluesky: we actually like sports.

Asking first, and listening for real, is the closest thing to magic that we have, and I think we should damn well use it

Vernacular theories of data, like vernacular theories of politics, are incredibly important, so YES to this and so very much.

i'm starting a diary on atmospheric login as a way to explore the topic in some depth. our login experience is how everyday folks will form their understanding of what the atmosphere even is—and the design space is super rich. the web may also have some tricks up its sleeve for us...

I feel bad proposing this while @bnewbold.net is on sabbatical, but ... How much would it reduce the design pressure for floats if we added support for fixed-precision decimals to the lexicon spec? (See below for a minimal spec change + examples)

US had overweening POTUSes before. But only Trump has attacked every element of our constitutional operating system, note @andycraig.bsky.social and moi at @thebulwark.com. We'll need a 2nd Reconstruction and Dems will have to lead it as a cultist GOP can't. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

One downside of having a private data plane (hi @michaelblack.xyz) is it makes it harder for outsiders to debug subtle issues In trying to figure out whether moderation played a role in some recent notification spam, I just wasted time reading REPLY_NOTIF_DEPTH logic in the wrong repo

Handy 🧵 measuring latency for various firehose topologies It's always nice when infra teams have optimized away every other bottleneck + you're down to the pure physics of geography

"If UI looks good, that means developers had time to polish it, which means that they probably spent a comparable amount of time to iron out the code. It’s a heuristic, but a reasonable one." -- @tonsky.me

Canada is the New York of North America🤡 "Fast as gas" charging. Pull your EV up to the "pump." Plug in. Go into the "gas" station to buy a sparkling water and pack of gum. Come out, unplug, and drive off at 85% charge. Fast as gas.

The latest #AtmosphericUX from @brookie.blog, who again shows how far a designer can get by: 1. identifying a common problem, 2. describing it using minimal lexicons, + 3. shipping a tidy UX to solve it In this case, a simple board for capturing, filtering, + making decisions from user feedback

Happy SpaceX-Grok-xAI-Twitter-X IPO day www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...

A timely demonstration of the design pressure to improve account management UX at the PDS level Both bsky.app + mu.social currently need the same permissions, but by supporting OAuth earlier, the fork highlights the security implications of blurring whether the app or the PDS manages your account

Interesting take on a feed builder UX: 1. start with a category (news) 2. classify accounts (region, topic) 3. toggle filters from step 2 4. review filtered accounts 5. display the resulting feed Note the division of labor between: - individuals (3 + 4) vs. - whoever built the clusters (1 + 2)

one of the things i sneaked in while working on mu.social is a first version of a custom embed for events that allows you to directly rsvp

by this, I mean: I've been using a cms for a long time to store things like: ⚪ #ama questions people ask ⚪ talks I'm planning to give (or have given!) ⚪ my current location (which I track and expose publicly 👀) ...and so on 👉 but atproto means your pds = your data so … why not use it as a cms?

Today's example of #BrilliantUX is this nifty new tool for making atproto auth scopes more legible at design time Should really help app developers use them better as a tool for communicating permission sets with user

Folks, you know what I realized just today? If someone subscribes to my standard.site publications, it can actually outlast my domain. 😲 You can change your handle without losing your followers. You can change your whole blog's domain, without losing your subscribers. 💫

Any bets on how long before we start seeing folks design useful cross-cultural lexicons? 😉

Lexicons have cultures Cultures have lexicons #atproto is a substrate for legibly expressing social coordination (as it emerges) both within + between cultures

atproto is not a social network but a plurality of social networks that can work together. Embrace it.

I need to write more about this, but one of the core benefits of atproto is that it (dramatically) lowers the cost of coordination, both in divergence and convergence.

🗣️🗣️🗣️ THE OPEN SOCIAL WEB IS THE LONG GAME If we win, it'll be for the next generations. Sit with that thought, move accordingly.

I made an atproto dashboard to see what's going on on the network in realtime. Runs entirely in your browser. Take a look. What would you like to see? atproto.nrempel.com

@dholms.at and I pushed up IETF draft text for atproto repos and sync: www.ietf.org/archive/id/d... www.ietf.org/archive/id/d... these are versioned in github (per norm) over here: github.com/ietf-wg-atp/...

Something amazing is happening in Astoria. We're in the early days of a major shift, you can feel it

I just want to purchase something from your store. I do not want to make an account first nor do I want to do a survey afterwards. Take my money, give me the merchandise, and disappear. That is all you need to do and all I want you to do.

There’s a difference between being busy and being operationally stretched. One is volume. The other is systems breaking under pressure 🎯 #Operations

Nice distinction between three modes of interaction: - social graph = who - interest graph = topic - engagement graph = buzz Each is illustrated by legacy platforms who tried to refine one such mode into the core mechanism for filtering attention

Filing this short 🧵 here for future reference I have a longstanding bias for defining terms whenever conversations go awry. (Cross-training in philosophy, literary theory, + abstract math tends to do that to you) A few things to know when discussing design issues with protocols + UX with me:

Lately, we've been going down a rabbit hole of data about place names in the US. Here, we can take our New England town establishment data into Rowboat and do two cool things: see a detailed county map and play it over time to see the northward spread of towns in the area, all in just 15 seconds.

Excellent 🧵 with nitty-gritty details on how scientists can band together + apply institutional leverage to fight back against the unlawful actions of unelected ideologues The key idea? Preload ammunition for federal judges + elected officials who have the power to foil Vought's plotting

Unless you're Bob Langer, probably the highest ROI thing you can do is pressure politically powerful players — e.g. universities, professional associations, organizations, institutions — to get involved by 1. submitting their own comment and 2. getting their gov affairs to lobby against this change

New project! I recently needed feedback on a doc I was writing and didn't have a good place to post it. So I built requested.fyi. Post docs, get comments, all on the Atmosphere. www.disnetdev.com/blog/rfcs-on...

Lesson for CEOs trying to dodge personal responsibility for their actions: As Casey Muratori eloquently points out, that passive voice doesn't function as the exonerative tense you're looking for. Anyone who pretends it does is just pandering to you

Bluesky isn't a bubble or an echo chamber, it's a garden. You plant some seeds and pull some weeds, you tend to it with care, and you make it into a space that pleases you when you come to sit in it a while. Other people can plant and tend to their own gardens, if they like. This garden is yours.

"The fediverse does not need more servers, it needs reasons for them to act like they owe each other something. The atmosphere does not need better tools, it has those, it needs the autonomy those tools enable to actually be taken up." Yes 🎯, and... 1/

Sophie's Choice (1982) quality film to be sure -- Meryl Streep + all -- but it's an incredibly rough way to unleash your cortisol

I am not (a) from or resident in Maine, nor am I (b) Black, so this is a good moment for me to be silent and let voices like Shay's be heard. This piece is worth a read.

Something I've been meaning to build for a while. Conformance testing for your PDS. Includes read-only, read/write and OAuth tests. Checks against specs as well as reference implementation where the spec is unclear. check.cirrus.earth

Case study on how a small business owner (Ryan of hownot2.com) is sustainably using AI to give his employees raises + better jobs He only spends tokens to build tiny bespoke tools which make his business operations more efficient, freeing his staff to do more creative work 1/2