i think the core problem is that the ecosystem was lacking another client that had the institutional gravity to say 'were here longtime, were serious, and were gonna be competing with you on features' without that, the default incumbent trends towards safety (for good reasons)
dan
yea honestly it's a huge L on bsky side that this obvious growth hack is always killed by bikeshedding "how to do it properly". @alexbenzer.com @esb.lol pls just ship something here, change it later
Jun 17, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Composable Trust, Part 1: Communities Without Credible Exit - Eclectic Corvine Muses
We guarantee that users aren’t subject to platforms. Yet communities are still subject to their stewards. Can we fix this?
Ecosystem Plugins - Wesley's notes
Bridging the interop gap and addressing the long-tail of user needs
The trust boundary moves inward - Sensemaker
GitHub's poisoned-extension breach, Railway's GCP account suspension, and SpaceX's AI-heavy S-1 all point to the same thing: the inside of infrastructure is now the story.
Mathew Lowry's Hub | MyHub.AI
Tom MacWright has "been around long enough to have tried previous attempts to decentralize the web... lived through ... open source optimism and seen how it can get weird... this relatively new and energetic community gave me renewed hope... also made me wonder where this is all going."Atmosphereconf attendeees were "far more diverse across multip…
Scale deep — The Systems Sanctuary
The world calls us to shift our mindsets and values from outdated ways of being and doing rooted in dominance, hierarchy and harmful systems, towards new ways rooted in relationship, collaboration and innovation.
Vibe Check: Effort, Risk, and Games in The Atmosphere - rpg.actor Updates
What Do "Real" Devs Think? — We left our bubble to chat with some world-class indie developers and experienced a sharp whiplash from The Atmosphere back to terra firma and developed a better understanding of the future both near and far in terms of game development on the AT Protocol.
The Missing Middle of Open Source
Why serious, maintainer-driven projects struggle to sustain themselves—and what it will take to fix it.
Sometimes the most exciting discoveries happen by accident. While reading this thoughtful field report from GainForest https://lnkd.in/eihbfggg, I was reminded why I've been so impressed by the way… | Tricia Stapleton
Sometimes the most exciting discoveries happen by accident. While reading this thoughtful field report from GainForest https://lnkd.in/eihbfggg, I was reminded why I've been so impressed by the way they approach their work. Their commitment to accompanying community-based partners and building place-appropriate frameworks feels deeply aligned with the kind of infastructure many of us in bioregional work are striving for. Curious, I headed over to their website and interactive globe and zoomed into my own bioregion. Right there in Puerto Jiménez was a pin. I clicked to see which organization was connected to GainForest—and discovered it was us, Los Higuerones Opening the profile (see the screenshot below), I had one of those wonderful "aha" moments. Not only was it beautifully presented, but I realized the information had been pulled directly from our MaEarth project profile. Then another piece of the puzzle clicked into place: both MAEarth and GainForest are part of the HyperCerts Certified ecosystem. I thought to myself….This is what a truly networked movement does. It's more than interoperability between platforms. It's infrastructure for trust, visibility, and connection. It allows organizations doing meaningful local work to be discovered, recognized, and linked into a broader ecosystem in a way that is does not put a burden on the grassroots partners to make ourselves legible. And this sense of support is also what we experienced throughout the first 21 days of July—motivated, accompanied, and reflected as we engaged in the @Ma earth crowdfunding campaign Huge appreciation to Holke Brammer, @certified, Matthew Monahan and Ma Earth , GainForest.Earth team, and everyone building these interconnected systems. Thank you for creating the kind of infrastructure that strengthens credibility while supporting the people doing the work on the ground. This is the kind of network our bioregions need…stregnthening trust and collaboration within, between and among.🙏.
Issue tracking is dead – Linear
The next era of product development is built on context and agency. Here's how Linear is evolving. And what we're launching today.
Why craft-lovers are losing their craft
Les Orchard made a quiet observation recently that I haven't been able to shake. Before LLM coding assistants arrived, the split between developers was…
Why does every platform rebuild the same safety tools from scratch, behind closed doors? Our Head of Product @julietshen.bsky.social joined the Won't Fix pod to talk open-source T&S infrastructure, AI vs. human judgment & safety for the decentralized web: youtube.com/watch?v=RxFV7VwxkLs
Won't Fix Episode 9: With Juliet Shen, Cofounder & HOP at ROOST
www.youtube.comyk the atproto space is kinda a great example of how corporate involvement can be a double edged sword. its gotten a lot bigger relative to how long its been around compared to a lot of other similar tech stuff. but god the corporate and hustle culture that exists in big parts of the community is 😭
One thing I hope to see after this is more than just the reference implementation of it. An Atmosphere Account ecosystem where PDS providers compete on UX, features, and extensions can be a whole new brand of competition in the open social web, and everyone should lean into it.
Anuj Ahooja
"We plan to add basic account management functionality directly to the PDS reference implementation." LFG.
Many builders in the Open Social Web are discouraged by the lack of funding in the ecosystem, slow pace of feature development (e.g. private accounts), and “low” adoption relative to incumbents like Meta. In my keynote I emphasized multi-generational struggle & movement building. People who faced…
it's not abandoned. we iterated on the communities concept after you left. it's on the horizon. events are top of funnel. goal is to harness these to draw people into communities. come for the event, find your niches (communities), and then connect with people in more siloed / private spaces.
