atmosphere.community/atmosphere.community
Website hub for the atmosphere community, aggregating posts, events, regional, and more
Where Does Community Live?
ActivityPub and ATProto both promise to rebuild social life online, but they answer the question of where community actually forms in fundamentally different ways. Protocol design is institutional design, and right now those institutions are being built.
Erlend Sogge Heggen (@erlend.sh)
hey so, @roomy.space is now generally available for real-world use! 🥳 make atmospheric group spaces for friends & community, chat in real-time, progressively structure emergent topics into evergreen threads and cultivate enduring knowledge.
Roomy and community organizing for system change - ATmosphereConf 2026
The evolution of expert communities
A look at how online forums grow, thrive, and then decay.
Roomy (@roomy.space)
Atmospheric co-gardening of multiplayer spaces. About us: https://a.roomy.space Discord: https://discord.gg/mbQYgFVBQx (being replaced asap) Made by @erlend.sh, @zicklag.dev and @meri.garden
ATmosphere technology to support organizing and activism
I’m working on a post about anti-surveillance organizing and activism on decentralized social networks, and one of the points I’m going to make is that the ATmosphere offers a lot of Innovative and very useful functionality for organizers that doesn’t exist on centralized social networks today, and complements decentralized implementations of classic social network activism tools like blogs, newsletters, microblogging, live-streaming, etc. Here’s some of the examples I have so far … custom f...
ATmosphere technology to support organizing and activism
I’m working on a post about anti-surveillance organizing and activism on decentralized social networks, and one of the points I’m going to make is that the ATmosphere offers a lot of Innovative and very useful functionality for organizers that doesn’t exist on centralized social networks today, and complements decentralized implementations of classic social network activism tools like blogs, newsletters, microblogging, live-streaming, etc. Here’s some of the examples I have so far … custom f...
Enter the Dark Forest
If you’ve managed to find your way here, you are likely familiar with the Dark Forest Theory of the Internet. You may not yet know it by name but you know it by vibe. Dark Forests are online gathering spaces that are non-indexed, non-optimized and hidden from public view. They are typically hosted in
Co-creating your physical event with your online community - MyHub Experiments Wiki
Powerful communities, simple sites Event co-creation use case MyHub on the ATmosphere intro to atproto
What Good Is ‘Community’ When Someone Else Makes All the Rules? (Published 2018)
Life online can offer us a sense of belonging in any number of virtual villages. But the power to control those spaces isn’t very communal at all.
made a post in the atmosphere developer forum about timelines for rolling out spaces (aka permissioned data) and community groups to the full network. tl;dr: a couple more months of iteration and prep, then major PDS operators could coordinate to go "general availability" around mid-November
Permissioned Data Spaces Protocol Timeline
discourse.atmosphere.communityThere's a ton of new stuff live on Skyspace right now: 📰 Home page with friend requests, feeds, mail, notifications, and a 👀 covert mute 👀 🔀 Structural edits: lay out yr page your way 💬 Custom blocks inc. chatrooms + a Paint-esque graffiti wall (Supporters only rn) skyspace.me Tell your Top 8! ✨
SkySpace: A Place For Friends (Who Miss 2005)
skyspace.mehey so, @roomy.space is now generally available for real-world use! 🥳 make atmospheric group spaces for friends & community, chat in real-time, progressively structure emergent topics into evergreen threads and cultivate enduring knowledge.
Roomy is generally available
blog.roomy.spaceYes, it's true! @brittanyellich.com crushed it in shipping a v0.1 version of a new community hub at atmosphere.community Features: @standard.site aggregation powered by @opensocial.community, group calendar, regional communities etc etc etc
The Atmosphere is a rethinking of the Internet, with social connections that you control, built in. It allows you to do more with others, while maintaining more control over your own data and experiences.
daniel holmgren 🫠
& you lose if you say the word "protocol", "decentralized", "repo", or "pds" to illustrate: the cloud is "the thing where i keep my photos when i drop my phone in a lake". if you even mention a "server" while explaining the cloud then you lost the thread
