W Social: Hello World!

Hello World! 🙂 This category is for discussing W Social, a new member on the AT-protocol federation. Launched in conjunction with the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 19, 2026, the project has sparked a lot of praise, interest, rumors and slander. In fact, our social media monitoring console registered 1 billion post views (across all the main social media) for posts mentioning #wsocial within the first week. As I write this, W Social is not yet open for business. There i...

PLC Organization

The PLC Organization is a small Swiss Association ("Verein") which provides open network identifier infrastructure. It serves as a neutral steward for the Public Ledger of Credentials (PLC) system, which provides persistent identifiers to over 40 million accounts in the atproto social web ecosystem.

PLC Organization

The PLC Organization is a small Swiss Association ("Verein") which provides open network identifier infrastructure. It serves as a neutral steward for the Public Ledger of Credentials (PLC) system, which provides persistent identifiers to over 40 million accounts in the atproto social web ecosystem.

There is One Fediverse. There are a Million Fediverses.

Over the past several years I’ve listened to admins, mods, and community managers from across the decentralised social media landscape. I’ve been in the chats, attended the conferences,…

New blog and first release of Atmosphere Community | Offprint

We are in the midst of making a bunch of changes, so your first intro to the new blog was likely the August 2024 Tech...