i wonder how much of this can be prototyped in userland with no new ui eg just a thing that creates “collection” accounts operated by bots. curators can post stuff there by dm’ing the bot. as a reader, you follow the account, so naturally it plays into your Following and For You etc
dan
“semble for bluesky inside bluesky app” is a good way to articulate exactly what i’m missing in the product. custom feeds are like half of that but they’re a readonly interface
Apr 6, 2026 at 4:52 AM
Holding Hands with the "Fediverse" – ActivityPub at SFO Museum
SFO Museum has joined the “Fediverse”. We have begun to operate a series of automated “bot” accounts that are published using the ActivityPub protocols which can be subscribed to from any client, like Mastodon, that supports those standards. These are automated, low-frequency, accounts and they currently only support a limited set of interactions: Accounts can be followed or unfollowed, individual posts can be “liked”, “boosted” or replied to but those replies will not be answered (yet) or published on the SFO Museum websites. To get started we’ve created three “groups” of accounts: Things which have happened recently involving the SFO Museum Aviation Collection; Things which have happened in the terminals (new and old) and; Things from the collection which are related to flights in and out of SFO.
Designing Grok Bot for a world of persistent agents
How we designed Grok Bot for agents that persist beyond a single session — from a chat history to a Bot roster, presence, a computer of the Bot’s own, and work that starts without a prompt.
Proposing Botwatch: Trust-Based Community Bot Detection
Is this account a bot? This question’s importance is only growing in a world of LLMs and state-backed influence campaigns. Proposed here is Botwatch, a community-based system for personalized bot detection. In Botwatch, users publish records indicating whether they think others are bots and records indicating trust in a user’s scores. By analyzing this network, we can create useful signals to help users distinguish between bots and humans. Such a signal would consider your trust relations and o...
Botender: Supporting Communities in Collaboratively Designing AI Agents through Case-Based Provocations
AI agents, or bots, serve important roles in online communities. However, they are often designed by outsiders or a few tech-savvy members, leading to bots that may not align with the broader community's needs. How might communities collectively shape the behavior of community bots? We present Botender, a system that enables communities to collaboratively design LLM-powered bots without coding. With Botender, community members can directly propose, iterate on, and deploy custom bot behaviors tailored to community needs. Botender facilitates testing and iteration on bot behavior through case-based provocations: interaction scenarios generated to spark user reflection and discussion around desirable bot behavior. A validation study found these provocations more useful than standard test cases for revealing improvement opportunities and surfacing disagreements. During a five-day deployment across six Discord servers, Botender supported communities in tailoring bot behavior to their specific needs, showcasing the usefulness of case-based provocations in facilitating collaborative bot design.
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i wonder how much of this can be prototyped in userland with no new ui eg just a thing that creates “collection” accounts operated by bots. curators can post stuff there by dm’ing the bot. as a reader, you follow the account, so naturally it plays into your Following and For You etc
dan
“semble for bluesky inside bluesky app” is a good way to articulate exactly what i’m missing in the product. custom feeds are like half of that but they’re a readonly interface
Made a simple Discord bot for the userandagents.com community which archives all messages and links from users who opt-in to a specific role, so we can distill into a model ( aggregate community brain) or make daily link digests or etc and whatnot. github.com/autonome/phenomena
GitHub - autonome/phenomena: Discord bot for userandagents.com
github.comWho is writing this idea up? I think we’re going to need it. There are a lot of objects out there being created as regular database entries or associated with the PDS of person who first entered them, but ideally we want to allow the creator or publisher to claim them and redirect without recreating
Paul Rohr
Ah, you're brute forcing this without asking @bnewbold.net + @dholms.at for the AT equivalent of an HTTP 301 or 308 response Mad respect
Yesterday we launched a new feature and now our existing web users can bring their own DID or we can be a temporary custodian of a new identity. Either way, now every user's PDS is the source of truth for public events and rsvps. openmeet.net/your-identity-your-events #ATprotocol
Your Identity, Your Events: How OpenMeet Gives Every User an AT Protocol Account
openmeet.netThe computer now has a natural language interface and a replicator for software You think I’m going to do anything other than ensure this technology gets into as many people’s hands as possible? The fight isn’t whether we use this. It’s whether we can self host these models
posts inspector
I am basically radicalized about this. We fight now for personal computing and personal agency or we lose another decade at best
there's 180?!?! of them listed here, not including general tools or bsky clients (those are separate collections). some are beta, alpha, or pre-release i also have a bsky list of apps/orgs that have accounts in my profile too. and @proto feed shows their posts + relevant posts from devs+enthusiasts
atmosphere-apps (by Ariel M. (she/her)) — Semble
semble.sothis is what I am *TALKING* about. I'm sure I'm late but this is such a cool idea from @semble.so. Collections are not new but mapping the specific kind of relationship between two things?? And this is publicly usable shared knowledge? Social knowledge as a service, beautiful.
taurean
to be fair we are also getting that from projects, I am just greedy and want to see even more. For example with @germnetwork.com, E2EE messaging is not new but multiple sub-identities in one inbox is. Show us something weird and new if/when you adopt an existing experience but for atproto.
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