How Bluesky earned its reputation — and why it could be the way of the future
Bluesky COO Rose Wang on how her company got to 40 million users.
How Bluesky earned its reputation — and why it could be the way of the future
Bluesky COO Rose Wang on how her company got to 40 million users.
Can Puck reinvent the news business for the influencer age?
CEO Sarah Personette’s risky bet on journalists as influencers
How to Create a User List (and Custom Feed) in Bluesky Social
Want to create a custom feed for yourself on Bluesky Social? You can do just that with Lists. Here's how to set one up, start to finish...
Making a feed is really easy
Friends of Backyard Habitats - greater Portland, OR area | I did a...
One alternative too -- if you know who you want in your feed, you can make a list and that can turn into a feed for you, and then others can 'pin to home' your list so it shows up for them as a feed...
Omegle
X, Bluesky and Reddit in France’s crosshairs amid porn clampdown
The government wants platforms to remove adult content or implement stricter age verification controls.
For Bluesky to thrive, it needs sex workers and Black Twitter | TechCrunch
If Bluesky wants to be a genuine rival to Twitter, it needs to protect sex workers and its Black community.
The Marshmallow Test - Bluesky signals it's willing to eat its young
At AtmosphereConf, Bluesky celebrated its community, then signaled it's willing to eat them alive. No context. No acknowledgment. I was in the room.
Collection
Updated 4mo
Food for thought
I wrote about what I've been calling "The Everything Account" If you're familiar with The Atmosphere, you already know how to get one, and this should hopefully help you explain it to others. For those of you who aren't, you'll be surprised to know you already have one; here's how you use it:
The Everything Account
www.augment.inkThe ATProto community built a ton of great features and products over the past year. For our next trick, let's mature them into products and businesses.
Mosh Lee
(2/n) A feature solves one problem well — even delightfully well. But features get copied easily or absorbed into larger products. They have no distribution or adoption model. If your whole thing can become a pane in someone else's app, it's a feature.
The forced global adoption of puritanistic American cultural norms vis sexuality and nudity via app store/payment processor rules is one of the least-discussed free speech issues of the last decade and this lack of attention is going to hurt online expression so much in the years to come.
♍ Bee 🐝
I think also we cannot ignore the potential social and cultural ramifications of normalizing the demonification of anything adult or sexual The whole system is stacked against any sort of movement in the other direction and it's not something the porn industry can handle alone at this point
The social meaning of atproto
How do we understand what atproto is?
Technological
Posts about the future of the internet, AI, and anything technological. Hence the name.
Ditch Platforms
Guides, stories, and reasons to leave platforms in favor of protocols
Lessons from Tech History
Learning from those who built before us
atproto-reads
blogs and writing about atproto (maybe also open social generally)
Bridging the Net
Building bridges, breaking down barriers. Creators are spread too thin between too many platforms - how can we take this work and make it more seamless and automatic so that creators can focus on creating, not playing the exposure and anti-suppression game....
Take back the web. Make it weird again - soulcruzer
Social Media and Anti-Social Pluralism - Aaron Ross Powell
Technorealists, the silent majority? - open self
Skyreader Vision - Skyreader Dev Log
Road to a book lexicon (Part 2) - Nick The Sick
The Turing Collapse | Jason G. Butterfield | Offprint
The Bluesky ecosystem has the juice (ATProto for normies) - Nate Spilman
nothin' but blue skies from now on
What It Means for Universities to Run Their Own PDS: The Potential of DID as Academic Infrastructure - Nightflight
From Attention to Intention - The Open Garden
Practical Decentralization
A conceptual model of ATProto and ActivityPub
ATProto ideas
Wesley Finck (@wesleyfinck.org)
Copyright and DMCA Best Practices for Fediverse Operators
The Shape of Apps to Come, Devin Ivy, ATmosphereConf Seattle 2025
FediForum Talk: Atproto: A Technical Introduction
The Music Industry is Broken
Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet
How to ACTUALLY Quit Spotify.
Kill Yr Substack | Jason Cosper
EFF is Leaving X
An Explanation (Which I Would Be Very Grateful If You Took The Time To Read)
Burnout in Open Source (by Erlend Sogge Heggen) — Semble
Linux distributions worldwide targeted by the Copy Fail exploit
GitHub Alternatives (by Kai Jellinghaus) — Semble
Death of GitHub? (by Kai Jellinghaus) — Semble
Before GitHub
Cohere + Aleph Alpha — sovereign AI's first $20B deal (by Sensemaker) — Semble
Tynan Purdy (@tynanpurdy.com)
Jasper — Import Instagram photos to Grain
The Garden (by Paul Stephenson) — Semble
Sill
Ditch Platforms (by Tynan Purdy) — Semble
Lqm1/X-ActivityPub-Bridge
