Recently, we escaped the AT-Bubble to chat with some of the world's most successful game developers and publishers. The whiplash was sharp... 😅 Beyond this network, The Atmosphere is largely unknown and there's some scary risks keeping others from joining the FUN. Our reality check, in blog form:
Vibe Check: Effort, Risk, and Games in The Atmosphere
rpg.actorJun 28, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Bridges & The Last Network Effect
We're in an exciting moment for the open social web. As Elon makes one bad decision after another on X, we've seen waves of users leave the platform for alternatives. Three obvious beneficiaries of these, ahem, lapses of judgment are Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon. What's particularly interesting about these three
Opinion | The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun
We’re entering a new renaissance of software development. We should all be excited, despite the uncertainties that lie ahead.
Opinion | The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun
We’re entering a new renaissance of software development. We should all be excited, despite the uncertainties that lie ahead.
The nerds are building a new internet, and I could feel it in the room
The AT Protocol is a quiet attempt to rebuild social software the way email was built — open, portable, owned by no one. A meetup in Portland this week made the stakes feel real.
How Slack and Discord became tools for worker revolt
Lots of tech worker movements got their start on Slack and Discord, even if the creators of those apps would rather not talk about it.
TISM
Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.
Astrarium Digital (@astrariumdigital.bsky.social)
✨🎮Helping indie games find their players! 🎮✨ We help indie developers grow wishlists & launch with confidence - games don't fail because they're bad, they fail because no-one sees them. 📅 Let's chat: https://calendly.com/accounts-astrarium/30min
Anil Dash on The Web We Lost
One of my biggest concerns is the rumble(.)com equivalent on AT Protocol taking off. And bad actors understanding the protocol enough to leverage it as a way to never be deplatformed. (I sit with the tension that its purpose is to be ‘the new web’ and you can’t be deplatformed from the net)
kottke.org
Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.
There aren't a lot of us here, and I might break the service on occasion, but in case you want to chat with a few really nerdy people about everything from decentralized chat to future of software architectures, here's where we tend to be! irc.freeq.at/join/%23freeq
#freeq on freeq
irc.freeq.atWe're launching a community server on Discord! It's a space for folks who contribute, build on, or use Bridgy Fed and Bounce, and a place for folks to support each other through any issues they may run into. That said, we know Discord isn't everyone's ideal choice - it's not ours either... 1/🧵
Join the A New Social Discord Server!
discord.ggWe're back from #ATmosphereConf 2026 and we're still thinking about it. @cassidyjames.com and @julietshen.bsky.social gave a trust & safety crash course, introduced Coop to the atproto community, and hosted an unconference session on what a minimum safety stack looks like for indie devs.
ROOST at AtmosphereConf 2026
roost.tools
