lots of exciting projects in Montreal this week weaving the ATProto ecosystem ✨ ( @germnetwork.com @stream.place @leaflet.pub @microcosm.blue @atprotocol.dev @smokesignal.events @cosmik.network @skylight.social )

Email you say? 👀

We quietly launched support for facets extraction and rendering in event descriptions. There are some limits, but mention, tag, and link facets are all supported.

Let's start monthly gratitude movement. Join me at the end of each month to recognize and uplift each other. Could be an endorsement on atwork.place or a post with #Gratitude.

Added a @smokesignal.events event for Letta's Stateful Agents meetup. November 5th in Seattle. We'll be talking about ATProto, Bluesky, and the future of artificial social intelligence. smokesignal.events/did:plc:gfrm...

Announcing ATmosphereConf 2026, coming to Vancouver March 26th to 29th. We've got the full announcement and future news and updates on our new site news.atmosphereconf.org/3m3cwwz4mpk2j

You can just do things, together

Looks fun @alt.psingletary.com and @baileytownsend.dev! #ATProtocol

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RSVPing to an event on smokesignal.events, another ATProto app

If This Then AT:// is getting close folks! We've added some great new actions on our way to a full release. What other workflow automations do folks want to see?

Or for those that prefer @smokesignal.events, we have the event up there, too! smokesignal.events/did:plc:eje5...

Recently there has been a lot of dividing & heated discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol. Yesterday at the Social Web CG meeting, I proposed releasing a statement on this discourse, you can read the full statement here: github.com/swicg/genera... #activitypub #atprotocol #atproto #SocialWeb

Who's interested in automation?

🔐 our discourse instance has also been updated to use more secure ATProtocol OAuth scopes.

🔒 Do more with less! We've upped our game with OAuth scopes!

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We're also on @smokesignal.events: smokesignal.events/did:plc:rnt6...

Come check out the first LIVE stream on @skyligh.social 🙌🏽 Shout out to @thelotradio.com, a non-profit radio station that champions DJs and creators! Thanks for letting us use your space and for being the first account on LIVE!!

If you’re in Brooklyn, check out the launch of Skylight Live — live streaming on the AT protocol that can connect with your Bluesky account!

Members of the community from NYC to Seattle are in town for hack day, including startups and hackers like @skylight.social, @graze.social, @stream.place, @sprk.so and @blackskyweb.xyz, as well as @piss.beauty, @cosmik.network, @tynanpurdy.com and @smokesignal.events!

Cloud Native and Kubernetes Edinburgh is back on the 17th September. I created a @smokesignal.events event for funsies: smokesignal.events/did:plc:4bxl...

The new OAuth scopes feature is looking pretty great! 🎉 Holding off on updating @smokesignal.events ke for now since self-hosted identities (like mine) can't use it quite yet. But wow, the permission system is impressively transparent. #atdev #ATProtocol #OAuth

Support for the legacy events.smokesignal.* types and supporting types will end on August 15th, 2025. Read more on Discourse.

Yes, definitely would be great to have a small honorarium for some design work on Smoke Signal We don’t have a dedicated “design” tier but donations gladly accepted opencollective.com/atprotocolde...

✨ Updated the localdev repository to include instructions on running jetstream in a local development environment. #atprotocol #atdev tangled.sh/@smokesignal...

LAUNCHING LIVE: Join the @stream.place and @skylight.social teams at @thelotradio.com in Brooklyn on Sun, Aug 24 to celebrate the launch of Streamplace livestreaming in the Skylight Social app! RSVP on @smokesignal.events: smokesignal.events/did:plc:rbvr...

A new tasty treat for all of you lovely Bluesky folks. The @overcommitted.dev podcast interviewed @ngerakines.me recently and it was a super fun conversation! Learn about #atproto, why it's so incredibly cool, and how to get involved in open source projects: overcommitted.dev/ep-19-at-pro...

Walled gardens are killing the open web 🪴 Smoke Signal is different: MIT licensed, ATProtocol-based, your data stays YOURS For the price of coffee, fight back → opencollective.com/atprotocolde...

It's August 1st and here's the breakdown of how much Smoke Signal costs and where money is going.

Tired of Facebook Events knowing more about your party than you do? Smoke Signal: open source, YOU own your data, not some billionaire in a hoodie. Help us keep the servers on for $350/month → opencollective.com/atprotocoldev/projects/smoke-signal

this week's bluesky and atproto news: - age verification in the UK is here due to OSA, including workarounds - e2ee messaging with your atproto account with @germnetwork.com - lots about pds migration tools this week connectedplaces.online/reports/blue...

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Brief hiccup during a deploy.

If you want to get involved with @smokesignal.events there’s lots of work to do - design design design and lots of UX - run a local instance - include the Lexicon into your bsky client - extend and integrate - eg tie it into Ghost email sending or make a Wordpress plugin And organizer usage!

Thanks to everyone who joined us for Nick's @smokesignal.events turns one Tech Talk. This was our first time using Smoke Signal RSVPs and manual emailing, but we did get most folks onto the video call. Here's the recording from the call.

Thanks to all the current Open Collective contributors towards @smokesignal.events infrastructure - @kayrozen.com @librenews.bsky.social rektide @ezraboeth.com Join us over on the Discourse forum to get involved in features, function, self hosting, governance, and more!

I've been thinking about a new ATProtocol record type to solve a common problem in decentralized calendars: event ownership transfers Picture this: you create an event for someone not yet on-network, then they join and want to claim it. How do we handle that transition smoothly? #lexicons

🎉 .ics downloads are back! 🎉 When you RSVP "Going" or "Interested" to an event that is scheduled and has a start time, you'll see a "Download .ics" button appear under your RSVP status.

In just over 30min, we'll be kicking off our @smokesignal.events tech talk. Zoom link in your email for those who RSVP'd, or available on the blog for subscribers atprotocol.dev/tech-talk-sm...

WOW! From our traffic logs and usage analytics we can see that widgets are really popular. The user fingerprinting data shows that ... JK we don't do that shit. opencollective.com/atprotocolde...

this says 20 going 8 interested there's gotta be at least 1-2 more protocol enjoyooors among y'all that will be in NYC on the 22nd, u should come. a bunch of cool people will be there, I'll present a bit about payments stuff.

🚀 Your events. Your data. Your rules. Smoke Signal is an event platform where YOU actually own your events - not some tech company. Built on ATProtocol, it's time to take back control. #OpenSource #EventManagement

Please join us for our next Tech Talk, this Thursday, July 24th at 9am PST / 12pm EST / 1800 CEST. We'll be hosting @ngerakines.me, founder of @smokesignal.events, to celebrate the one year anniversary, re-write, and re-launch with community lexicon, and open sourcing!

Woo hoo! Feels great to be using ATProto built events. Many more things we can build and integrate directly into different Lexicons and apps. RSVP on @smokesignal.events for the Smoke Signal Tech Talk with @ngerakines.me this Thursday!

Next week BHNT 105 "MechaHacker" is planned to happen on board of @c-base.org bhnt.c-base.org/2025-07-29-n... Please register on @smokesignal.events and bring your hacks! smokesignal.events/did:plc:mho5...

❌ Facebook Events: Your data helps them sell ads ✅ Smoke Signal: Your data stays yours Built on #ATProtocol for true identity and data ownership. Support open source event management: opencollective.com/atprotocoldev/projects/smoke-signal

We just shipped Smoke Signal XRPC Webhooks! Real-time notifications for your community events are here. Our experimental XRPC webhook system makes building custom integrations super easy. Guide: discourse.smokesignal.events/t/webhooks-u...

ATProtocol gives us strong identities, authenticated XRPC, and typed interfaces. But what about ephemeral event data that's protocol-adjacent? I've been exploring XRPC webhooks — a new way to handle real-time events while leveraging ATP's strengths. 🧵

New Blog Post! XRPC Webhooks: Protocol-Adjacent Event Streams is a blog post that explores evolving webhooks with ATProtocol primitives like identity services, service credentials, and lexicons.