Something’s Rotten in the State of macOS Icon Design
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Beyond Microblogging: AT Protocol for Building Unique Social Apps
Boris Mann's digital garden and personal site.
Mastodon's Eternal September
Figure 1: A ‘joke’ t-shirt made in 1994 commemorating Eternal September, taken from The Eternal September Wikipedia page The latest round of Twitter nonsense (changing the way “blocking” works) has caused another wave of people to abandon that site for pastures new. Nearly every one of them went to Bluesky instead of Mastodon. 1.2 Million people joined Bluesky in 48 hours. I wonder why that is? I bet there’s something about where people draw the line on Twitter’s behaviour and where they choose to go next. But I bet there’s something else to it too.
Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, and Enduring Polarization
The social media ecosystem appears to be in flux. Twitter’s rebranding to X has come to symbolize a broader reorganization of online publics – political reshuffling, user attrition, and uncertainty over the role of legacy platforms. Simultaneously, the shift from text-based, networked feeds toward algorithmically curated, short-form video has accelerated, with TikTok setting the pace for the wider ecosystem [18, 14, 16]. At the same time, everyday communication increasingly migrates from large, open networks to semi-private spaces such as group chats and messaging apps. Commentators describe a digital public sphere in transition: smaller, more fragmented, less dominated by traditional social networking sites, and rise of more broadcast-oriented forms of media – with some even suggesting that we are seeing the beginning of the end of the social media era.
Reclaim the internet: Mozilla’s rebrand for the next era of tech | The Mozilla Blog
Mozilla isn’t just another tech company — we’re a global crew of activists, technologists and builders, all working to keep the internet free, op
Was thinking about posts made by @rude1.blacksky.team & @zeu.dev this weekend and been thinking about the Atmosphere needing a logo. While I don't pretend to speak for the entire community, wanted to throw my 2 cents that we should seriously consider adopting a "spherical" logo for the AtmoSPHERE.
Lexicon Community needs a proper logo. I'm leading the effort to commission one and looking for a co-lead. Please volunteer, suggest someone, or repost. discourse.atprotocol.community/t/lexicon-community-icon/853
Lexicon community icon
discourse.atprotocol.communityTweet so good I printed it out and put it on my wall. I referred to it in a conference talk today @hypervisible.blacksky.app
Which logo would you put in front of your ATprotocol handle if you had to put it on a poster or website? Mostly I've seen people using the Bluesky logo, but now there's mu.social, @eurosky.social, @blackskyweb.xyz and others, all with their own logo's, it's starting to get confusing.
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Joining the atmosphere I don't post to or visit the social network formerly known as Twitter, but as a very early Twitter user, I can't quite bring myself to delete all my old... rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2026/05/31/joining-t…
Joining the atmosphere
rachelandrew.co.uk✏️ ATblogs
Blogging (long-form) apps and services in the ATmosphere network.
Inkwell
AnyPub
SkyPress: a writing studio for the open social web
lemma.pub
standard.horse
Longform — Long-form writing on the AT Protocol
