







The Open Social Web generally rotates to these discussions: 10 Friendly name of the network (ATmosphere vs Bluesky; Fediverse vs Mastodon®) 20 Branding (ATmosphere vs Atmosphere/atmosphere; Fediverse vs fediverse) 30 AI / LLM 40 Twitter / X 50 Meta 60 ActivityPub vs ATProto 70 Moderation 80 Goto 10
Apr 12, 2026 at 4:04 AM
blogs.social — Discover the open web
Discover and follow blogs across Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and the open social web.
The State of the Open Social Web
A comprehensive look at Mastodon, Bluesky, and the growing ecosystem of open, interoperable social networks.

Platform Stats — blogs.social
Discover and follow blogs across Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and the open social web.
A New Social
Our mission is to liberate people's networks from their platforms, enabling The Last Network Effect and leveling the playing field across the open social web.
A New Social
Our mission is to liberate people's networks from their platforms, enabling The Last Network Effect and leveling the playing field across the open social web.
FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web:<br>An Online Un-Workshop
Since the Twitter takeover by Elon Musk over three years ago, the Open Social Web has been adopted by an enthusiastic community. People world-wide are building and using open social platforms and open social protocols to better interact with others online.

Recently I’ve been thinking about a couple of... - Adam Wood
Recently I’ve been thinking about a couple of different tech-related things that sort of overlap. One is the (emerging) shape of the new social web; the other is a pull I’m feeling to try and lessen reliance on American companies. I’ve been interested in / concerned by what became of social media for some time.1 Since the sundering of Twitter in 2022, I’ve kept an eye on the various alternatives, with particular interest in Mastodon and Bluesky. Actually, to be more accurate, my interest has been in the protocols behind those platforms: ActivityPub and AT Protocol respectively. Both have their...

The Atmosphere . Building the open social web
bluesky-social atproto · Discussions
Explore the GitHub Discussions forum for bluesky-social atproto. Discuss code, ask questions & collaborate with the developer community.
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

ATProto London November · Luma
Curious about how Bluesky is different from other social network websites? Interested in building cool stuff using atproto, the underlying technology powering…

Mastodon - Decentralized social media
Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.

Leaflet, standard.site, and open social publishing! - Leaflet Lab Notes
Lab Notes 021: launching a set of shared standards for social publishing, migrating Leaflet to use these new lexicons, and how we plan to grow publishing × open social together!
Studying the "atmosphere" of Bluesky: Proposing a New Research Field Called Network Perception in ATmosphere - Nightflight
Introduction: Is Social Media Just Digital Grooming? How do you use social media in your daily life? Liking your friends' posts, sharing funny videos, twee…
digit1024.leaflet.pub/3mpw3tn7owk27 My view on current sate of social networks and centralization of them. #bigtech #opensource #atprotocol #bluesky #facebook #blog #blogpost ( thanks @leaflet.pub for the platform - it is nice )
Anti-social-networks
digit1024.leaflet.pubI now fully believe that the open social web will be more key to the agentic web than folks think. #AgenticWeb