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I'll be on a panel discussing the future of social media from a European policy angle on the 22nd at the European Union's San Francisco office, with some distinguished other panelists. www.eventbrite.com/e... It's open to the public, but registration required. Say Hi if you are coming.

Latest Protocols for Publishers ✨ issue is live 🎉 Are you interested in coming to a PfP event in Toronto 🇨🇦 ? Also inside: digital sov, courts on Google & AI, pubs losing to platforms (and what might actually help), plus wins for open social protocols 🏆 protocolsforpublishers.com/pfp-toronto-...

Latest Protocols for Publishers ✨ issue is live 🎉 Are you interested in coming to a PfP event in Toronto 🇨🇦 ? Also inside: digital sov, courts on Google & AI, pubs losing to platforms (and what might actually help), plus wins for open social protocols 🏆 protocolsforpublishers.com/pfp-toronto-...

We're the Grand Prize Winners at the inaugural #OpenSocialAwards 🥳🍾🥂 @newpublic.org @publicspaces.net

Honored to be recognized with an Honorable Mention at the New_ Public Open Social Awards! #OpenSocialAwards Huge congrats to the winners & other honorees!

It is 1:15 am here in the Netherlands, and I am tired but grateful. Plenty more to say in the coming days, but I’m so honored by the Excellence Award from the #OpenSocialAwards by @newpublic.org and @publicspaces.net

"I can't leave because they've locked me in" Once again, Substack is the opposite of independence. Also, classic @molly.wiki breakdown of how you win when you leave Substack:

"Let's make connected community spaces our mission for the next year." A bold call to action to connect community spaces within the year from @michael.eurosky.social Read the full blog now 👇 www.blog-pat.ch/connected-co...

Learn about @standard.site's integration with @bsky.app, controlling AI crawlers, micro-payment infra and experiments, and how the @openmarkets.bsky.social Institute is not a fan of the AI content license market protocolsforpublishers.com/june-2026-ro...

v1.122 is rolling out today, featuring a better way to discover and share articles, blog posts and newsletters across the Atmosphere via new, dynamic Standard.site link cards. 🧵

No you don't have to migrate your CMS. No you don't have to put your full content on protocol (though we should talk about that too). But you can get better branding, publish dates on your link cards (fight context collapse!), and better paths to subscriptions, donations, etc. It's a no-brainer.

Hello journalism friends. Do you want your news organization's links on Bluesky to look fancy like this? Get in touch, I can help. blog.euphonos.studio/3lyfwrx7zn222

Bluesky are in #Toronto for #ttw2026 #TorontoTechWeek doing some events with @gandersocial.ca and also a Pub night with @arshy.bsky.social of The Hatchet #journalism Added to the PfP✨ Luma too for our community. If you are in the area tonight and tomorrow check them out! luma.com/protocolsfor...

Hey Toronto pals, the folks from The Hatchet (one fo the best investigative journalism podcasts in Canada) are teaming up with some folks from Bsky for a tech + journalism pub night. I likely won't be able to make it but you should go! luma.com/bdfykdfj

My analysis of Google I/O: Google laid out a big, not always coherent vision for making the web more agent-ready. The strongest signals came from Chrome, while Gemini Spark and AI search raise questions. Also: could Parallel’s Index solve AI’s publisher economics? agenticweb.news/google-agent...

Congrats to @wordpress.org & @pfefferle.org for shipping the first 1.0.0 version of an Atmosphere plugin for WordPress. WordPress posts are published as microblog posts as well as @standard.site long form posts. Read all the other features in the blog post

From @dxcsummit.bsky.social in Toronto, the Journalism Technology London Meetup, and the @cjf-fjc.bsky.social event in Vancouver protocolsforpublishers.com/democracy-ne...

Am here meeting some very interesting folk and having some sparkly ✨ conversations on news and AI

In the last section of this @parismarx.com interview of @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com they talk about the ideological danger of an AI-mediated infosphere, especially in higher ed and journalism, the exact kind of thing we discuss at PfP✨ youtu.be/MsO8zFQKHxw&...

A peek into the room at the IETF's interim meeting on AI Preferences: how websites communicate to genAI models how to treat their content. Also, more upcoming events, the latest in AI-assisted publishing processes, and everyone's fav topic: money. protocolsforpublishers.com/ietf-aipref-...

Tonight in London! luma.com/qjj9c8d7?tk=...

A very PfP conversation from our friends @betaworks.com on Apr 28th. If you are near NYC, check it out! www.betaworks.com/event/softwa...

I’ll see you all next in London 🇬🇧 @newspeak.house for luma.com/qjj9c8d7 /cc @protocolsforpublishers.com

Stressful day when checking into my flight realizing I was not allowed to check any luggage! Full flight! And me on middle leg of a 3 country journey 😵‍💫 Came to the airport 4 hours early and they were able to squeeze my bag (with my wedding suit!) onto the plane! Relaxxxing now 💆‍♂️

Felix, CEO of Mastodon, and I hope to collaborate more. Mastodon has wide adoption in Europe and 8k communities (servers) running independently. The customization they give communities is inspiring to me. Public squares should be a gathering place for you to discover cozier corners/communities.

#ijf26 journalists, why do you think more journalists aren't on Bluesky?

View from our meeting room for IETF AIPREF working group this morning

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.” 🎯