Don't want to start Discourse, but tbh it kinda annoys me when every time something is launched here, some people complain: meh, this is stupid, bad design, vibe coded, you can tell by the colors it's from Claude, it relies on app.bsky lexicons, still uses Bluesky AppView, not decentralized enough,
Jun 11, 2026 at 9:48 PM
The Universal Rules of Civilized Discourse
With Discourse, it was clear that we needed to totally reboot the software to create next-generation forum software. But code is only part of the story. Any reasonable attempt at delivering a Civilized Discourse Construction Kit has to provide a safe, simple default set of guidelines for civilized discourse.
BlueSky Trending Topics: Past & Present Conversations in One Place
Explore BlueSky's trending topics, from past to present. BlueSky is becoming the next big thing—a moderated space where people gather to discuss what's happening, free from hate speech and disruptive behavior. Stay updated on the latest trends.
Clouded skies for open networks
Last week, I finished an essay about platform design affordances and content moderation expectations and community-level context collapse on Bluesky for Tech Policy Press and set it aside to cool before a last read-through. An hour later, the Trump administration brought to Bluesky a propaganda-zombie army made
The Discourse Encouragement Fund
News about about the next-generation open source Discourse forum software.
On discourse and decentralisation
Over the last year, as Bluesky got more popular, conversations about whether Bluesky and ATProto are really ‘decentralised’ have gotten more “popular” as well. These conversations ranged from high-quality, productive back-and-forth articles to people just saying a lot of dumb stuff on the internet (shocker, I know). As time went on, this discourse has grown […]
A Quick Guide to the Bluesky Social Media App | Aspire
What is Bluesky and why are X users flocking to the app?
Bluesky Is Not The Center of The Atmosphere | Sam Clemente | Offprint
The Bluesky app is not—and should not be—an everything app
Bluesky is scared to commit to making a universal app that works with any atproto lexicon. I am not. And am pretty committed to our social-app fork being able to work with more and more content types (short video, fintech, blogs, music, etc.) Acorn customers get this for their communities too.
Richard Ferro, MD MSc
Also, will any platforms using acorn have access to these integrations as well?
Everyone on here is arguing about X and Bluesky again. But no one ever talks about the two major issues with this platform, one cultural and one technical. And until both are solved, people are going to keep arguing about whether its relevant or not! garbageday.email/p/safe-and-cozy-in-your-dooms…
One way to mitigate these effects is to move social discourse out of the high-velocity feed entirely—to use something like @skysquare.app where you can read conversation in context without subjecting yourself to the rapid novelty, constant switching, and algorithmic mechanisms of the feeds. 👀👇🤷
Skysquare — Public conversation, anchored to the web
skysquare.app
T.W. Simpson
I have an MA in broadcasting and early in my career worked in corporate filmmaking. One through-line from my studies through the industrial practice of audiovisual communications was that the shorter the asl, the easier it was to capture the viewer's attention. This effect is what is "addicting"...
