







Discover and follow blogs across Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and the open social web.
Platform Stats — blogs.social
Discover and follow blogs across Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and the open social web.
The State of the Open Social Web
A comprehensive look at Mastodon, Bluesky, and the growing ecosystem of open, interoperable social networks.

bsky.blog
Welcome to bsky.blogThis project is an independent community initiative and is NOT affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Bluesky Social, PBLLC. The bsky.blog domain serves as a prototype to demonstrate automated custom domain issuance on the AT Protocol.
Mastodon - Decentralized social media
Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.


Making a Ghost Blog a Valid standard.site Publication
This blog federates over ActivityPub through Ghost so Mastodon users can follow @index@subaud.io. standard.site is the counterpart for the AT Protocol side: a set of lexicons that describe a blog as records in an atproto repo, the same identity and data layer behind a Bluesky account. Anything

FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web:<br>An Online Un-Workshop
Since the Twitter takeover by Elon Musk over three years ago, the Open Social Web has been adopted by an enthusiastic community. People world-wide are building and using open social platforms and open social protocols to better interact with others online.

Recently I’ve been thinking about a couple of... - Adam Wood
Recently I’ve been thinking about a couple of different tech-related things that sort of overlap. One is the (emerging) shape of the new social web; the other is a pull I’m feeling to try and lessen reliance on American companies. I’ve been interested in / concerned by what became of social media for some time.1 Since the sundering of Twitter in 2022, I’ve kept an eye on the various alternatives, with particular interest in Mastodon and Bluesky. Actually, to be more accurate, my interest has been in the protocols behind those platforms: ActivityPub and AT Protocol respectively. Both have their...

Using Bluesky posts as blog comments
As a fast-follow to the blog post from earlier today on the benefits of an open network, here's a concrete example. Your blog's comment section can be pulled directly from Bluesky.
Collective Social | Track what you love. Share what matters.
Curate lists, track your progress, and share recommendations across books, movies, TV shows, and more — all on the open social web.

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Why and how I'm embracing open social blogging (and less traditional social media). I've been working on this post for ages, rewriting etc because things keep changing/improving! Have decided to just post it as is. 😁 #Atmosphere
Embracing open social blogging in the Atmosphere (and less traditional social media)
debbieohi.leaflet.pubIf you're wondering what this means: blogs that support the protocol Bluesky is built on will soon be embedded in posts on the feed. This is bc of hard work + collaboration b/w @leaflet.pub @pckt.blog & @offprint.app who pioneered a blogging standard for the protocol. But wait, there's more! 1/
Eric
✨ Atmosphere devs ✨ Bluesky is integrating Standard Site, and our initial work should be released in the next few days. Here's what that means for publishers and apps in the ecosystem: github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discus… If you have questions or comments, please leave them on the GitHub Discussion thread!
Today some of the most innovative creators & podcasters are launching social websites that will bring millions of their fans to the social web: verge.surf.social decoder.surf.social versionhistory.surf.social vergecast.surf.social wired.surf.social 404media.surf.social poweruser.surf.social
good heavens, she's BLOGGING now?? i've been playing around with migrating to independent, open-source social networks for a while now. the tech is really maturing! but the space is still awkward to discuss. i talk about this issue here, and how it applies across matrix, activitypub, and ATproto.
communicating open social networks to normies
spacegirl.pckt.blog