One of the action items out of #PfP✨London was the need for #Wordpress and #Drupal plugins to make publishing @standard.site docs to the ATmosphere easy. @tylerjfisher.com and then @pfefferle.org gave us a WP plugin, and now @affinitybridge.bsky.social a Drupal one 🙌 This is progress folks! 💪

Here is a Drupal module that implements standard.site and will backfill posts from your Drupal CMS to the atmosphere. Big thanks to Automatic and @pfefferle.org for the ref impl github.com/affinitybrid... @protocolsforpublishers.com @drupal.bsky.social @standard.site @atmosphereconf.org

Am vergangenen Wochenende fand auf dem Uni-Campus in Vancouver die #ATmosphereConf statt. Dabei gab es auch einen Themenbereich zu #Journalismus und #Zivilgesellschaft. @protocolsforpublishers.com empfiehlt hier ein paar der spannendsten Vorträge und Diskussionen zu diesen Themen: 👇

🌊 🌊 🌊 Today, we’re launching social websites, a new kind of online destination. These blend posts from Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon and more, plus YouTube, podcasts and your favorite publications to create community sites based around the things that matter to you. about.surf.social/surf-launche...

Possibly of interest for our PfPeeps in #london nsmg.live/event/future... @edsaperia.bsky.social @atproto.london @monkchips.com @tristanwerkmeister.com @marcelakunova.bsky.social

Today we're also introducing surf.social to let anyone surf the whole social web including over 130K feeds that bring together people, podcasts, YouTube channels, newsletters, blogs and images for whatever you're into.

Reporting from #ATmosphereConf protocolsforpublishers.com/atmosphereco...

On March 29th, we held an in-person meeting to check in with the community and discuss potential updates to the standard.site spec. A huge thank you to @cozylittle.house for putting together a detailed summary of everything we discussed. leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:ky...

Gitesh Gohel, Chief Product Officer at The Atlantic, explains why the comments section is failing both news orgs and their audiences – and he suggests nine ways that media orgs can reinvigorate meaningful discussion among readers. We’ll share some of our favorites below! youtu.be/Guu-pv6jPR4?...

A demo of @bluenotes.social a Community Notes (or peer moderation) solution for #atproto by @jonathanwarden.com Here are some of the goals: #ATmosphereConf

Good morning #ATmosphereConf! Welcome to Day 2 (or 5 in some cases 😅). @jimray.locket.computer is hosting a convo with @aendra.com and @tylerjfisher.com about How and Why News Orgs Should build on #atproto

For the last journalism talk of the #ATmosphereConf Media & Civics track today is @aendra.com bringing the 🔥 🔥 🔥

Some ideas 💡 from @joe.germuska.com and @werd.io - media membership card on your PDS - improve resilience against censorship - newsrooms to create and share feeds for good journalism - algos to recommend permissioned posts - more Bristol Cables! #ATmosphereConf

In our last leg of Media & Civics track today @joe.germuska.com (and the disembodied voice of @werd.io) present on why a Free Press needs Free Protocols #ATmosphereConf

Community calendaring in Oakland on #atproto with @pop.pe #ATmosphereConf

Hey #atmosphereconf we just proved that the right feed algorithms can reduce political polarization. And now we're building open-source recommender infrastructure that you can use for your ATProto app. rankingchallenge.substack.com/p/its-possib...

Get in the waitlist here: attie.ai

The #ATmosphereConf keynote with @pfrazee.com quoting @quillmatiq.com

The opportunities and risks of open networks. Food for thought for designers and developers #ATmosphereConf

Conversation with @knowtheory.net @bankonjustin.com and @laurensaks.bsky.social about News Creators #ATmosphereConf

Panel discussing the Creator economy with @joebasser.com from @sprk.so on the mic #ATmosphereConf

“Technology has democratized access. It has not democratized economic value.” 🎯

Thinking through the economics of Sovereign Media with @eclecticcapital.bsky.social in the Media & Civics track at #ATmosphereConf

To learn more about the Atlas, check out our interview of Justin protocolsforpublishers.com/independent-...

For the second year @kissane.myatproto.social opens #ATmosphereConf with a deep meditation on what is going on in the world, and why we are here (and how kelp is awesome!)

You will find Chad MCing the #ATmosphereConf Media & Civics track if you want to connect about protocolsforpublishers.com ✨

On Friday 3/27, I’ll be participating in a half-day @knightcolumbia.org event —“Can Middleware Save Social Media?”—at @pressclubdc.bsky.social in D.C. and online. We’ll explore the future of middleware as a tool that could reshape social media and #freespeech online. RSVP: bit.ly/3P3Uf6M

This shit is why I’m a Journalism On ATProto extremist. We need to own the distribution layer.

yay it works! go to this #ghost blog and you can login with your Bluesky OAuth! It will politely only ask you for identity. But when you comment, you have an option to grant scopes to comment as yourself and it syncs back and forth! demos.linkedtrust.us/blog/at-prot...

Okay not only am I *going* I'm also *hosting* this workshop / discussion / tiny exploratory symposium on atmospheric publishing, should be a lot of fun :) RSVP if you're planning to join!

@bankonjustin.bsky.social’s talk at ATmosphereConf is up: atmosphereconf.org/event/J9yOpYz

Hello from WordPress! 👋 This post was published directly to my PDS! In the best case it show up on bsky and standard.site compatible sites! https://matthiaspfefferle.blog/2026/03/19/hello-from-wordpress-%f0%9f%91%8b/

Big news! Igalia (@igalia.com) is partnering with @eurosky.social to develop the next generation of the open social web. Let's stop waiting for others to fix our problems and start fixing them ourselves. We can just do things. More: www.eurosky.tech/s/Eurosky-Ig...

We hear a lot of, "I really just need..." when we ask developers about their platform safety challenges. While some are platform-specific (so won't be shared w/o permission), so many are universal requests. We started a "safety tools wishlist" for more ideas and upvotes: github.com/orgs/roostor...

This week's newsletter features an interview with @bankonjustin.bsky.social about The Independent Journalism Atlas, along with many links about web monetization and efforts to make AI companies pay 💰🫰 protocolsforpublishers.com/independent-...

Registration for the next #FediForum is now open. Come join us and your peers from around the world, learning, teaching, debating, and making plans for how to move the Open Social Web Forward. April 28-30, 2026, online. More info and registration: fediforum.org/2026-04/

one account wherever you go ☺️ your handle isn’t just for one app anymore ! we took @hello.pckt.cafe for a walk across the atmosphere

Did you know @propublica.org maintains a Bluesky feed of its reporting partners? bsky.app/profile/did:...

One solution to solving web publisher revenue? Touch grass 🫳🌱😉 “A Tour Guide for Journalists is a digital guide to help local newsrooms, niche publishers and independent journalists plan and execute a walking tour pilot.“ www.futuretides.org/how-to-tours...

For You, For Everyone: we're thrilled to announce that our feed personalization engine is now live — and fully open source. Read our @leaflet.pub announcement below, or follow the 🧵:

Cool developments with the Nanopublications project, they are now sharing individual news updates as FAIR nanopublications (~RDF triples) Lots of potential Atmosphere synergies (@atproto.science @protocolsforpublishers.com etc) knowledgepixels.com/news.html

Thanks to @chronotope.aramzs.xyz and @pixeline.be that’s likely to be Schema-dot-org rather than OGP Iterating quickly!

A good a time as any to say the review process is underway to get Wireservice in the WordPress plugin directory. Hopefully I can list it soon!

Since we got back from PfP✨London there has been a lot of activity in the #atproto ecosystem. This week's newsletter gives a roundup for #publishers, including: ✨ Wordpress plugin for @standard.site ✨ Byline discussion ✨ extending Open Graph in fun new ways for AT ✨ and more!

#atproto could potentially become a future replacement for RSS. With projects like @standard.site and native permissioned data it could fix main RSS limitations like discovery, interactions, monetization

Nice post on models enabled by more open & intentional social ecosystems, w/ standard.site as example of a shared vocabulary for *portable social objects* I'm excited to see things like memberships w/ granular roles & capabilities, more direct audience relationships, new types of bundling, etc etc…

Recommendation Systems came out of our “AI & Discovery” conversation at #PfP✨London. Knowing where your traffic comes from and under what context is valuable insight, that has slowly been chipped away over the years by big platforms.

If you were laid off from Block (or anywhere) and want to stay remote, @roost.tools is hiring for multiple SWE roles and levels. If you're the kind of person who's deeply satisfied by figuring out why a service has multiple databases and ripping some out, we might be for you! roost.tools/careers

Just shipped the Exec Summary for the #PfP✨London Stakeholder Forum, the invite-only session that gathered publishers and protocol devs for close discussions. This is a private 5 page report but we'll discuss the 14 action points that came out of the event on the PfP✨ Newsletter in the future.

“A subscription to news outlets doesn’t just have to provide access to journalism, it can feature participation in journalism.” 👏👏👏 @techdirt.com’s @karlbode.com notes that online comment sections can actually help bring new life to a news organization.