Hi Bluesky! We're Modal Foundation, a new nonprofit dedicated to making open social tech viable at scale. We grew out of the @freeourfeeds.com campaign and support @eurosky.social. Our work will connect experts, strategists, builders and communities to create a human-centered internet.

Are you in media or open tech? Interested in exploring the future together? Based in the UK or Europe, or willing to travel there? @protocolsforpublishers.com in London next month should be awesome - and the conversations are ever more important. I’d love to see you there.

We have created a #SotB26 starter-pack of Speakers and Organisers. go.bsky.app/Di7jHyZ We'll others involved soon.

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Happy New Year! 🎊🥂 It is time to cast our eyes forward. protocolsforpublishers.com/how-web-publ...

Happy New Year! 🎊🥂 It is time to cast our eyes forward. protocolsforpublishers.com/how-web-publ...

🌎 Today, I'm happy to release "First Basemap," a free tutorial that shares one of our most valuable recent innovations at Reuters. https://palewi.re/docs/first-basemap/

I'll be co-hosting the ATProto London meet up on 28th January at Newspeak House, come join us for everything ATProto! #ATProto #Bluesky

My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions: includes fediverse predctions focuesed on work being done by: @bsky.app @ghost.org @surf.social @wordpress.org @ap.brid.gy @anew.social @leaflet.pub @smokesignal.events @altstore.io www.timothychambers.net/2025/12/23/m...

Shoutout to @betaworks.com for giving #PfP✨London a shoutout in their newsletter. Betaworks is an early supporter of the PfP✨ mission 🤝 mailchi.mp/7cdce934e6ea...

Here is our bonus newsletter for the end of the year. Happy hols everyone! 🍾 protocolsforpublishers.com/more-pfp-lon...

We promised to only send 1-2 newsletters per month, but it's the holiday season so we have a bonus newsletter 🎁 coming out tomorrow. It will include some announcements for #PfP✨London as well as whole 🎅 bag of goodies about AI-mediation and hyperscaler consolidation. Joy! 🎊 Signup below 👇

Very happy to add @aendra.com to the speaker list for #PfP✨London 🎉🎉🎉 Pre-registration is open now: protocolsforpublishers.com/london-2026/

Very happy to add @aendra.com to the speaker list for #PfP✨London 🎉🎉🎉 Pre-registration is open now: protocolsforpublishers.com/london-2026/

Excited to be speaking in London! Last version of Protocols for Publishers was awesome (so Ive been told, fomo on not being there), and honored to do a deeper dive into the current state of Open Social

Ben has been a previous attendee and a great supporter. He will be MCing the London event and bringing some of his experiences from PfP✨NYC 🇺🇸 🤝 🇪🇺🇬🇧

I see current issues as growing pains & immaturity. Building out ATmosphere, @graze.social, @blackskyweb.xyz + initiatives like #FreeOurFeeds, @protocolsforpublishers.com, & @eurosky.social can make this ecosystem far more universally tunable to all communities.

London! I'll be there! Will you?

gonna take all them FOSDEM learnings and put em straight to work

When we were planning the August edition of @protocolsforpublishers.com we knew that being in the US wasn’t going to work for a lot of people. @chadkoh.com is running with it & now has set a date for London in early February.

Join us in London on Feb 4-5, 2026 to discuss how we can preserve an open, equitable web, where no one company holds the keys. Here are the initial announcements 🎉 #ProtocolsForPublishers protocolsforpublishers.com/pfp-london-d...

PfP✨ NYC sponsor @betaworks.com has announced their latest camp. If anyone is applying with ideas related to web publishing, please let us know!

The internet runs on creators, and creators depend on their fans. But that relationship has always been locked inside platforms who didn't build it and don't deserve to own it. We're taking the first step in changing that with a new experiment: ATProtoFans 🧵

“The media outlets of the Fascintern — X, Meta, Google — are all structured to exert strong editorial control according to their business and political preferences. These systems … [are] _not at all_ like a public space.” Robin walks through the faulty mental models for staying on Fascintern media

okay this prediction thing is fun from @niemanlab.org (just wish it used standards that work across ALL browsers) www.niemanlab.org/collection/p...

Here is the prediction: The platforms own the pipes, but publishers can own the intelligence that matters most to our communities. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/publ...

And an engineering role to be announced shortly 👀

We are coming to London 🇬🇧 to Italy 🇮🇹 Express your interest below: protocolsforpublishers.com/pfp-europe20...

Pivot to clickbait Pivot to native articles Pivot to video Pivot to metaverse Pivot to no news bc news bad Pivot to AI

Next time someone asks you "what is the atproto killer app?" show them this meme. There is no killer app, there is a killer ecosystem

Just back from this year’s European Media Summit. Many journalists expressed a sense of urgency, growing threats and pressures. But also: commitment. #Mediengipfel

You had me at proto

I was interviewed about how media can use new social platforms Happy that they explicitly mention why I do this work: sure, big tech bad, but the main point is that social media are collective sense making tools, and thats what makes them so extraordinarily valuable www.svdj.nl/nieuws/stapj...

Are we moving towards two civilizations? One uber wealthy, an enclosed economy of AI driven demand and supply, and another agrarian, artisanal, poor? How should journalism work against that scenario? Join me, Heather Chaplin and @rushkoff.com on a wild podcast exploration #journalism2050

Rust, CBOR, DASL/ATProtocol, iroh, quic/webtransport, and webrtc are all at the top of my list of production tech these days. They are the starting points.

As requested by @bnewbold.net, a trip report of the first year of serving up content to the ATmosphere, heavy on the details of how we use @clickhouse.com to power our feeds

New: ATmosphere Report #145, with collections of links to interesting atproto articles for November This time, the links are on-protocol, as a @cosmik.network collection, with a page that lets you follow the conversations on @leaflet.pub and @bsky.app traverse.connectedplaces.online

I have written this thread up into a blog post, it has more extensive links to sources & previous conversations about fake content & users on the internet. It's easier to share, if you want to make sure your friends don't get caught in that honeypot of a corporate blogpost aramzs.xyz/microblogs/d...

(Someone replied appreciating the "Oakland Bay Area" shoutout 😘)

Some vague (😅) updates on our next event, a call for help, #Eurosky, AI journos caught in the act, users showing their own agency, and much more in this edition of #ProtocolsForPublishers! protocolsforpublishers.com/dont-let-tec...

We co-sponsored @protocolsforpublishers.com, gathering a group of publishers and technologists to build strategies to support information creators at a critical time. www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/the-...

Big Tech continues to control our online spaces, threatening free speech and democracy globally, but we’re doubling down on our commitment to support decentralized open social technology. For #GivingTuesday, we're asking for your support: www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fr...

Growing energy for @freeourfeeds.com. #FreeOurFeeds!

Special thanks to the developers building our decentralized future. Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed, IPFS, Matrix, Solid, and countless other projects advancing open standards and keeping the internet weird, resilient, and truly shaped by its users.

Prepping next week's newsletter now so here is a reminder of the mid-month newsletter. Sign up for more #ProtocolsForPublishers news

this week's fediverse news is about how Newsmast is building apps for local news publishers that combines their articles with social media feeds, combining news with the fediverse into a single app connectedplaces.online/fediverse-re...

Finland uses “Russia-gauge” rails. They are going to move to European compatible rail gauge for their own resilience. This is what we should be thinking about for moving to open social away from American platforms: it should come with significant spending commitments & is absolutely necessary.

Takeaways from #eurosky: big tech social media displaced journalism, a core pillar of democracy, and has been bad for society. EU lawmakers want European, privacy-centered tech. There are still questions of whether the internet is worth building on and what to build. But they are talking about it

Milestone alert: We're celebrating our first anniversary today! In just one year, we went from an idea on a blog post to sending 8.6 *million* users 23.5 *billion* posts across thousands of feeds created by thousands of brilliant, creative people who are working together to create a better internet.