Big improvements to @skyreader.app making it more social! Articles you share are now published as a @standard.site linkblog. Follow Skyreader linkblogs in any @standard.site reader (or traditional RSS reader!) Finding your people in Skyreader is also now much improved. Let me know what you think!

Shouting out @quillmatiq.com who reminded me a couple of weeks ago that it’s okay to take your time on things, especially when you have a strong moral center to the work - people will choose you because it’s what is right, even if it’s not what is first.

I like my code Small-batch and Clinically proven

I like my code grass-fed and free range

It’s been a while since I’ve written to my dev blog. I wrote a little bit about why I built @mackinac.social

i'm not good at communicating it, microcosm services continue to support a significant (and growing) fraction of all atproto apps. pretty sure i (indirectly) serve one of the largest user-bases. usage keeps growing, stuff keeps getting more expensive

Huge migrations updates to Bridgy Fed and Bounce today, including a credible exit from the bridge! We're also helping you reconnect with unbridged profiles and Fediverse migration improvements as well. So. Many. Improvements. Dive in 👇

Incredibly proud to be a founding signatory as @anew.social! We're stronger together 🤝🏼

I’m pretty sure other pictures will come out and videos of us receiving the Excellence Award, but this one means a lot to me. This is the first award I’ve been physically present for that Blacksky received and it’s in Amsterdam, the city I grew up in and call home and that’s special to me.

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

Apparently I was on to something 9 months ago when I penned the Statement on Discourse About ActivityPub and AT Protocol open letter, nice to see it pop up again in the materials for https://european.social

🏆 Congratulations to @newsmastfoundation.org, @sill.social, and @blackskyweb.xyz, the winners of the first ever Open Social Awards! 👏👏👏 New_ Public, @publicspaces.net, and @waag.org are proud to award them in recognition of their excellence and innovation on the open social web. newpublic.org/OSA

Did a little cleanup on my bsky-conversation web component, which is extracted from the atproto.com blog. If you're looking for an easy way to add comments to a site, take a look. There's even a helper script to hide bad replies (like from @jcsalterego.bsky.social) tangled.org/jimray.bsky....

I am interested in surfacing people and organizations who are available for paid consulting around atproto. Ideally the community can help vouch for folks as interest grows.

So honored that Bounce is on this list of amazing projects 🫶 And congrats to @newsmastfoundation.org, @sill.social, and @blackskyweb.xyz for winning awards today!! So very well deserved!

And congratulations to the honorable mentions: * Bounce * Dandelion * Streamplace * Leaflet * Bonfire Network at today's Open Social Award.

Huge huge huge congrats to @michael.eurosky.social & the @newsmastfoundation.org team for winning the Open Social Awards! And to the excellence award winners: @tylerjfisher.com for @sill.social & @rude1.blacksky.team & team for @blackskyweb.xyz! Couldn't imagine folks who deserve this more 👏

"Our data is soil" - @audreyt.org at @publicspaces.net Love that. Definitely using that analogy from now on.

auth: it's just a list! authorization tends to bring out Strong Opinions ™️ so we decided to try to keep it as simple as possible in the protocol & let the applications build higher-level abstractions give it a read & let me know your thoughts!

@rude1.blacksky.team speaking at @publicspaces.net! You can watch it live here: stream.place/publicspaces...

Also great to see acknowledgement of the prior work of @thisismissem.social shown prominently!

This is massive for the future of un-enshittified Social Media in Europe. Atmosphere ❤️ Fediverse ❤️ Matrix

Just look at what @michael.eurosky.social and @bjoernsta.eimsbuettel.social.ap.brid.gy pulled off today. Two years ago, everyone would've laughed in our faces if we said all these folks would shake hands. Unity is the future. If you don't get it yet, you'll get it soon enough.

You're either with us or you'll eventually be with us, it's really that simple

New_ Public is proud to sign on to the European Social Stack. We need a thriving ecosystem of social media and social networking apps that are completely free from the destructive control of Big Tech. This is an important step in that direction. european.social

Today, we're announcing THREE migration-focused updates! We now support every kind of migration on all the networks Bridgy Fed supports (including web!): into Bridgy Fed, out of it, through it, and around it, all while keeping you connected with your people. Let's dive in... 1/🧵

Huge migrations updates to Bridgy Fed and Bounce today, including a credible exit from the bridge! We're also helping you reconnect with unbridged profiles and Fediverse migration improvements as well. So. Many. Improvements. Dive in 👇

The European Social Stack declaration is a big step in bringing European players together - launched today thanks to the efforts of @michael.eurosky.social and Björn Staschen. Check it out and add join us european.social

Catching our own @cjtait.bsky.social as she describes how Facebook began blocking Canadian news _just_ as a wildfire was threatening remote indigenous communities. The folks in remote Canada rely on FB Lite for internet access and lost access to fire alerts. #PubConf2026

This is such a crucial milestone for the open social web. Around here, we build Bridgy, not walls. And with this coalition of incredible organizations and individuals, we're going to break a whole lot more walls down together 🤝🏼💪🏼

🫶🫶🫶 I'm delighted that we managed to land this. 🫶🫶🫶 Many many thanks to Michael & Björn for the coalition building.

Incredibly proud to be a founding signatory as @anew.social! We're stronger together 🤝🏼

Just launched at Public Spaces in Amsterdam, The European Social Stack Open Declaration! A set of common principles agreed by complementary technology leaders 🫶 Read the declaration, add your signature, and share: european.social #EUSocialStack #Europe

but what if, get this, we give a creator one account for all their different social media, ready to be put together without the need of a third party api? hmm i wonder what protocol lets you do this easily? maybe an @ and a domain to identify and verify users? hmmmmm 🤔

if you're feeling burned out on dev these days, watch this and feel your soul mend in real time. full episode on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Xy...

@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/...

FYI: If you have a custom @standard.site blog and want an easy subscribe button, you can use @sequoia.pub's subscribe page! Your subscription link should be sequoia[dot]pub/subscribe?publicationUri=<your-pub-at-uri>

There's a lot more of us than there are of them. Let's get it 🤝🏼

Yes we stand on the shoulders of giants — but we also lift & hold each other up Unity is power Why would I go dollar for dollar or feature for feature with a better resourced enemy? In my head community will prevail & If my community is in community with other communities we‘ll win as a coalition

🗣️ COOKIES, NOT CONTAINERS

Whoa, those stickers on the top right look pretty cool 👀 (we'd eat from both plates btw, maybe even make a double decker sandwich with one from each)

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Persepolis changed the way I think about graphic novels and was such a formative read for me. Part of my first read-through was on a plane, and I burst into tears next to a bunch of strangers who had no idea what I was experiencing. Read it three times since, and probably will many times more ❤️

I know Xteink is all the rage right now, but I love my Boox Color 7 so much

"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:

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

...and let the people who create the information own it

Google: Organize the world's information Atmosphere: Let the world's information self-organize

In some ways, atproto, bluesky, @semble.so, @sill.social, @standard.site and so on are building new indexes for the web. I really hope atproto succeeds and goes fully mainstream. Think of the amazing search engines that can be built on such rich index data. Maybe web3 can actually happen.