The conversation in this 🧵 between @anna.germnetwork.com, @sgo.to, + @bnewbold.net has me hopping in my chair with excitement Can we finally implement the full potential of the @-ness of handles vs. sites?
bryan newbold
my response to anna's original idea is that handles are already domains, and there should be cool sites there. eg, if you put dril.bsky.social in a browser bar today, you get redirected to bsky.app/profile/dril.bsky.social instead, dril.bsky.social could be a webpage, like linktree (blento is a link app)
Apr 2, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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.
Josh Miller on Twitter / X
What if AI chat is our new front door to the web?Meet "Inline Browsing" in @diabrowser (available today)Now Dia opens webpages *within* your AI chat threads – blurring the lines between 3 categories of software: a web browser, search engine, and AI chat. Let me explain... pic.twitter.com/pRKnCOrroP— Josh Miller (@joshm) July 10, 2025
Use your own domain as a W social handle
W social removes the handle feature from its web frontend. Using the AT Proto API, you can still set your own domain as a handle. A guide in four steps.
We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be working with @eurosky.social to help to define and develop open social web infrastructure for the AT Protocol! igalia.com/2026/03/18/Advancing-the-AT-P…
Advancing the AT Protocol in Partnership with Eurosky | Igalia
www.igalia.comoh i forgot to mention in my talk, but some of us small indie relay operators are getting together to make @firehose.club so we can share network limit bumps and bans and build some shared tooling. we can go further together <3
So exciting! Huge props to @bnewbold.net, @dholms.at, et al for making this happen. Definitely still a long journey ahead but this is a huge step! 👏
A funny thing happened the other day with @wilb.me and @timtrautmann.com and it gave me a silly idea
A funny thing happened in the Atmosphere
chrispardy.leaflet.pubWhat if a browser could navigate #ATProto DIDs and 🦋 Bluesky handles? Made a little prototype of Aura, a browser that can navigate between standard websites (🌐), Bluesky handles (@), and permanent DIDs, resolving them all in the same address bar.
Big news! Igalia (@igalia.com) is partnering with @eurosky.social to develop the next generation of the open social web. Let's stop waiting for others to fix our problems and start fixing them ourselves. We can just do things. More: eurosky.tech/s/Eurosky-Igalia-partnership-…
Sherif EA
I am very excited to announce our partnership @eurosky.social with @igalia.com! The partnership will accelerate the development of independent, European-operated infrastructure for the open social web, enabling developers, organizations, & communities to build new applications. cc @xanlopez.xyz
A discussion I had with @pfrazee.com @bnewbold.net and @dholms.at at the conference that I wanted to dig as a community is a TLD for atproto handles. Lots of challenges, but I think I'm looking forward to a world where I'm @goto (syntactic sugar for goto.handle) on the web rather than @sgo.to
🙋🙋🙋 @hankgreen.bsky.social At @curvenote.com we are thinking AND doing something about this - see more here curvenote.com
Are Scientific Papers Bad?
youtu.beClarifying: I feel like we just invented email addresses. And they’re tricky, I get it. But I’m pushing back on “wtf is the @ symbol even, nobody knows what ‘inbox’ or ‘smtp’ is, stop making it hard for normies” Instead of making atproto invisible, what if we made it worth the learning curve?
Eli Mallon
If your goal is to make atproto accessible to non-technical users I implore you to stop calling them “normies”
We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be working with @eurosky.social to help to define and develop open social web infrastructure for the AT Protocol! igalia.com/2026/03/18/Advancing-the-AT-P…
Advancing the AT Protocol in Partnership with Eurosky | Igalia
www.igalia.combtw, these new domain endings should be of much greater interest to the @bsky.app (atproto) community than your average internet jane/joe because of the incoming flood of expressive @handle.tld options
Pete Millspaugh
ICANN's gTLD application window closed last night and bigger-than-2012 (last round) stuff is already happening lfg.link applied for 316, more than anyone in 2012 (it'll cost $71 million in application fees alone!) some interesting strings in there...going to thread until I run out of steam
