Major updates and announcements
Announcing the Modal Foundation - Updates from the Modal Foundation
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Modal Foundation
Supporting decentralized social tech and open standards to create trustworthy, public-interest social media alternatives and ensure access to vital information.
The Curious About Everything Newsletter #65
The many interesting things I read in July 2026
Freshet News (@freshetnews.bsky.social)
Next newspaper: April 30, 2026 Tips: newsroom@freshetnews.ca Sales: ads@freshetnews.ca Donations: chuffed.org/project/freshetnews 👉 FreshetNews.ca
News: WHAT open mailing list announcement — WHATWG
The Curious About Everything Newsletter #63
The many interesting things I read in May 2026
In Our Timeline - AT Protocol
Paul and Daniel are on the livestream this week with a look at the new Standard.site integration, updates from permissioned data, and news from around the Atmosphere
The Curious About Everything Newsletter #60
The many interesting things I read in February 2026
Our April updates are out! (Sorry we're a bit late - in a busy stretch here) On launching @semble.so connections, and lots of community contributions 🫶 "Sense is being made" -- @joebasser.com
Cosmik Updates: April 2026
blog.cosmik.networkExcited to announce that I'm a speaker in MIT Media Lab's upcoming AHA Seminar Series! I'll be presenting on @blackskyweb.xyz's moderation and how we are navigating the nuances around automated content moderation that is community-governed
AHA Seminar Series: Rishi Balakrishnan | Who Moderates? Community Control of Automated Content Moderation – MIT Media Lab
media.mit.eduI have high hopes for @mu.social as a proving ground for democratic social media, given ample support from the atmosphere community. With the help of civilized-discourse expert @jonathanwarden.com we can have Community Notes on atproto, starting with mu.
Mu for democracy
notes.erlend.shWe have some news you can use on the blog this fine Monday! Ozone, our mod tool, is adding a new *report-based* moderation workflow, which enables higher-context moderating, better collaboration, auditing, and more! Check it: atproto.com/blog/report-based-moderation
Report-Based Moderation in Ozone - AT Protocol
atproto.comExcited to invite you to a panel I'll be on next week w/ @richardsever.bsky.social @joelchan86.bsky.social! We’ll discuss the future of open-access, new modular research tools (eg @discoursegraphs.bsky.social) and the role of social media in scientific discourse (@cosmik.network @atproto.science ..)
Frontiers In Research: Open Science · Zoom · Luma
luma.comIt's release week at the house, and here's our next announcement: Mise en Mode, the emerging web standard! AT Protocol is a federated model for building social media apps like Bluesky. We want folks in the Atmosphere to adopt for supporting a visitor's own look over their own. standard.mode.place
standard.mode.place: carry your look from app to app
standard.mode.placeOn March 29th, we held an in-person meeting to check in with the community and discuss potential updates to the standard.site spec. A huge thank you to @cozylittle.house for putting together a detailed summary of everything we discussed. leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:kydzcmnywraao2srchq…
Standard Site Working Group Meeting Notes 3/29/26
leaflet.pubsoft announcement for... at://news – collectively-sourced, weather reports of the atmosphere. Anyone can help contribute on the open @semble.so collection: semble.so/profile/chrisshank.com/collec… @leaflet.pub publication (starting end of this week): at-news.leaflet.pub
at://news (by 𝕮) — Semble
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Maybe the more interesting question is how this can be sourced collectively rather than relying on the good will of a single individual? Can we dogfood atproto to make this happen? (e.g. @semble.so open collections) This is a great example for the need of collective sensemaking.
