Bridges & The Last Network Effect
We're in an exciting moment for the open social web. As Elon makes one bad decision after another on X, we've seen waves of users leave the platform for alternatives. Three obvious beneficiaries of these, ahem, lapses of judgment are Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon. What's particularly interesting about these three

Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges
A libre networking project that's designed to bridge protocol spaces together announced its progress and intentions, and Mastodon users freaked out.

Semble โ Make sense of the web, together
A place for mapping the web, connecting ideas, and building shared knowledge.
A Lament For The LAN Party
Before broadband and the connected world of information, we found different ways to mix our social life and our games. โฆ

Building At The Edges
Technology Podcast ยท Updated Weekly ยท In Building At The Edges, Jess Sloss, instigator at Seed Club, holds intimate conversations with top innovators building irresistible web3 communities. We surface insights from DAO experiments and digโฆ

The Case for Open Sovereignty in a Fragmenting Internet
Once, the Internet promised to dissolve borders. It was humanityโs great experiment in connection โ a place where ideas, innovation, and communities could move freely, unburdened by geography or...

SO cool to see features on our @semble.so roadmap (auto sync from bsky to Semble) getting covered by ecosystem development. Ecosystems are rising tides that lift all apps and this is just the tip of the iceberg of their potential github.com/cosmik-network/semble/issues/โฆ
Bluesky integration: auto-sync links from your bsky posts (exclude historical posts) ยท Issue #110 ยท cosmik-network/semble
github.comspooky bubba
oh yeah. this is working. with @airglow.run I now have my likes with links auto bookmarked on @semble.so , and then @treethought.xyz 's beta Atmosphere Obsidian plugin pulls them into an easily accessible list - I no longer need to paste links into one dump file. Excellent.
Exosphere

Using Ozone - AT Protocol Docs - AT Protocol
roostorg/osprey
Community owned infra (by Ronen Tamari) โ Semble

Introducing Acorn: Community Infrastructure That Grows With You

Open Source
Eternal September (by Bee ๐) โ Semble

Usenet
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....
Atmosphere Gaming (by Bee ๐) โ Semble
Gaming by @sweetbee.vip

Child Predators Turn to Open-Source AI to Make Unlimited Illegal Images

Mac Users Reclaim 12GB+ of Storage With Apple Intelligence Removal Tool

โDoom Loopโ: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

Cory Doctorow: AIโs big beasts arenโt really scared of their products. Theyโre scared of their competition

How AI Chatbots Are 'Deskilling' Human Empathy
Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) โ Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Widget
Library ยท disnetdev
rumor has it, this transform is already live in an unofficial @semble.so mcp server (free for MCP clients to use!) tangled.org/zzstoatzz.io.โฆ
The Paper Pilot's Digital Garden
Wanted to take a peek at @semble.so and didn't knew where to start. I built this as a static explorer of all the links in there. sites.wisp.โฆ
If somebody else would like to easily and quickly save all Tangled Stars to Semble, using the *permalink* (so the link won't break if theโฆ

Inclusive Design for a Digital World

Mindful Design

Brutally Honest Advice About Web Design in 9 mins
UI/Design (by Brady Hawkins) โ Semble

Design outside the computer
Tailwind CSS (by Bee ๐) โ Semble