Welcome! This project started as an idea to created an atprotated clone of Disqus, but has grown in scope and ambition. This thread is dedicated to helping us figure out what exactly footnotes.social should be (and how to refer to it, I'm not too into just calling it "footnotes.social" forever). Come chat!
Give footnotes the boot
I hate footnotes, and hopefully by the end of this, you will too.
Footnotes (@footnotes.social)
Link aggregation and post comments on ATProto. https://tangled.org/@footnotes.social
+ the art of footnotes | Are.na
expanded to include margin annotations and other multi-channel approaches towards text, information and credit.
Bluenotes: Community Notes for ATProto
I'll briefly demonstrate Bluenotes, a fork of the Bluesky with Community Notes. Then I'll discuss a proposed "Open Community Notes" standard and lexicon for Community Notes on ATProto, and discuss challenges such as preserving contributor anonymity and defending against manipulation.
Barefoot Developers
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology. Reading time: ~2 minute read | Published: Mar 17, 2025 | Updated: Oct 4, 2026
Research - Disqus
Disqus is a global comment system that improves discussion on websites and connects conversations across the web.
FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop, 2026/03/02
The Skeleton Library
On Interpolatable Archives, Part 1: Compulsions to Connect, Warburg, Borges and Goldsmith, Cultural Technologies and Digital Oralities
Jim Nielsen (@jim-nielsen.com)
If you haven’t seen it yet the new @aworkinglibrary.com website is dope aworkinglibrary.com Lots of things to love. A few that stand out to me: - It's _fast_ - Every page has a “footer” that’s essentially just the home page — enthralled by this idea. - ❤️ the treatment for citations on post pag…
Bluenotes is a fully-featured fork of the Bluesky social app, with the addition of a Community Notes feature that works just like Twitter's Community Notes. We're currently in Phase 1 of the beta. Please check it out and leave your feedback here! bluenotes.social
Bluenotes
bluenotes.socialSemble serendipity in the wild 🫶
Torsten Goerke (verified 🤜 🤛) 🎛️🎹🔊🎚️🎧📟🔌🐸
Reading this forum post on open protocols and music publishing. Thank you @hilk.eu for sembling it.
our system of knowledge production is under attack from an extraordinary array of forces and if the people putatively on the side of maintaining it cannot commit to the most basic standards (not using fake citations, writing your own words, etc) I fear there is no hope
Dr. Holly Walters
I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?
Okay... This looks very cool. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 For researchers and reporters looking to find and collate material from across the web, imagine a search and bookmarking tool that's social. 📝📝📝 @semble.so let's you log in with your BlueSky account.
Semble
Wondering what Semble is all about and how to use it? Check out our video guides on our docs page to learn more! docs.cosmik.network/semble
Cute Corgi Puppy Awooo Howling
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Ezra🦋
@ronentk.me I have a new idea for a Semble feature: Howls. a Howl is basically a request for others to flock to a collection and contribute. if one person Howls at a collection it might show up on a friend's timeline and get added to. if many people start Howling at a collection, it's a signal that-
