I updated my census of rotation keys on the atmosphere: rob.leaflet.pub/3mr7vhdonuk2i "In total, I found 15,029 recently-active users (0.299%) who have strong control over their identity. This is an increase of about 10x over my earlier census ...
Rotation Key Census, July 2026
rob.leaflet.pubJul 22, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Elena Rossini 🌈 (@_elena@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image 📝 #WSocial state of the network - Friday July 10th 📣 for those who are curious about it, considering the enthusiastic endorsement by prestigious European institutions #OpenData allows me to crunch numbers. On day 23 since its beta launch in Brussels, W Social has 11291 accounts: - 469 new users since yesterday - 899 users have published one or more posts - 72 new users posting since yesterday - 92% have never* published a single post *may be related to #WIdentity and its 13-step process
As many as 48 million Twitter accounts aren't people, says study
A big chunk of those "likes," "retweets," and "followers" lighting up your Twitter account may not be coming from human hands.
2,558 Is Not a Number of People - Ewan’s Blog
Bluesky says I have 2,558 followers. For two years I've treated that number as the verdict on my writing: that many people decided my posts were worth seeing…
Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it “age” verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we̵…
Exposed Persona Frontend Reveals Extensive Biometric Surveillance Stack Behind Age Verification - ID Tech
Security researchers investigating Discord’s age-verification implementation have discovered a publicly exposed frontend belonging to Persona Identities, Inc., revealing that the identity-verification vendor’s platform performs far more extensive checks than users […]
Actually, having one Identity for yourself is a Breaching Experiment
This should really be a comment to Henry’s post, but I have the keys to this car, so I’m going to drive it, too. We have Zuckerberg’s remark:
Revisiting Keyed-Verification Anonymous Credentials
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What the hell is a rotation key? - HItchhikers Guide to the atmosphere
Why it's important that YOU should have a rotation key and backups for your Bluesky/AT Protocol account that is hosted on a third party PDS
This is awesome. I made a PR last week to add better support and display for permission-sets to the OAuth consent screen for @tranquil.farm. Now every time I log in to my Atmosphere account, I can actually see my fingerprints on Tranquil. 😍 #atproto
This is awesome. I made a PR last week to add better support and display for permission-sets to the OAuth consent screen for @tranquil.farm. Now every time I log in to my Atmosphere account, I can actually see my fingerprints on Tranquil. 😍 #atproto
On the weekly posting users per origin chart on my stats page, there's now a checkbox "Show as % of total". And we've quietly passed a pretty important milestone last month: 1% of all users on the network (making app.bsky posts) were on independent PDSes! (13k/1.3M) blue.mackuba.eu/stats/#weekly_origin_chart
ATmosphere User "Verification"
Age verification, ID verification, age verification legislature, and verification indicators as an indicator for account authenticity to increase trust and minimize social issues around inauthentic identities/catfish/deepfakes/etc
On verification and coordination authority - Connected Places
EU Digital Identity Wallet Home - EU Digital Identity Wallet -
Online Age Verification Legislature (by Bee 🐝) — Semble
EU Digital Wallet
Bluesky Made Me Prove I Was An Adult—Here’s How I Did It
Keytrace - You be you, everywhere.
Here is some standard.site docs stats. There may be imperfections in this data but it's interesting nonetheless ~3,820 weekly active authors ~2,200 daily active authors (58% of WAA post any given weekday) 73% day-over-day retention among daily posters Net author growth of ~+200/day
Standard.site - One schema. Every platform.
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