The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences
As brands look to hold onto the internet of the past, the term “community” will become a loaded word.
The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences
As brands look to hold onto the internet of the past, the term “community” will become a loaded word.
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
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Food for thought
misc #atdev thought to consider later but we need more tools on both user & viewer side to improve social media experience for people who have audiences of different highly varied demographics... you can't really have an everyTHING account if it isn't smooth and frictionless to have everyONE there
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 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.
Ditch Platforms
Guides, stories, and reasons to leave platforms in favor of protocols
The social meaning of atproto
How do we understand what atproto is?
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....
atproto-reads
blogs and writing about atproto (maybe also open social generally)
Lessons from Tech History
Learning from those who built before us
Technological
Posts about the future of the internet, AI, and anything technological. Hence the name.
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)
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
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
Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable Decentralized Social Media
a native internet protocol for social media - Pastebin.com
bnewbold.net
This isn't over until we all listen to kpop - ATmosphereConf 2026
The political economy of the PDS (by 𝕮) — Semble
Paradigm shift to the Prosocial web
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
Child Predators Turn to Open-Source AI to Make Unlimited Illegal Images
Mac Users Reclaim 12GB+ of Storage With Apple Intelligence Removal Tool
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
Cory Doctorow: AI’s big beasts aren’t really scared of their products. They’re scared of their competition
How AI Chatbots Are 'Deskilling' Human Empathy
Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
