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Website hub for the atmosphere community, aggregating posts, events, regional, and more

A taxonomy of ATmosphere applications

Last week I spent an energizing, educational, occasionally infuriating week in Vancouver around the ATmosphereConf, a community event gathering developers, investors, data scientists, the odd...

ATmosphere technology to support organizing and activism

I’m working on a post about anti-surveillance organizing and activism on decentralized social networks, and one of the points I’m going to make is that the ATmosphere offers a lot of Innovative and very useful functionality for organizers that doesn’t exist on centralized social networks today, and complements decentralized implementations of classic social network activism tools like blogs, newsletters, microblogging, live-streaming, etc. Here’s some of the examples I have so far … custom f...

ATmosphere technology to support organizing and activism

I’m working on a post about anti-surveillance organizing and activism on decentralized social networks, and one of the points I’m going to make is that the ATmosphere offers a lot of Innovative and very useful functionality for organizers that doesn’t exist on centralized social networks today, and complements decentralized implementations of classic social network activism tools like blogs, newsletters, microblogging, live-streaming, etc. Here’s some of the examples I have so far … custom f...

Atmosphere Community

A community space for coordinating, convening, and collaboration around ATProto

About the Atmosphere

I’m writing this from the beautiful UBC campus in Vancouver where ATmosphereConf 2026 is taking place. It’s a gathering of developers, researchers, and entrepreneurs who are passionate about keepin…

ATmosphereConf 2026 Call for Proposals Now Open - ATmosphereConf News

Send in your proposal for presentations, workshops, and discussions. This is your community conference.

New blog and first release of Atmosphere Community | Offprint

We are in the midst of making a bunch of changes, so your first intro to the new blog was likely the August 2024 Tech...

ATmosphere technology to support organizing and activism

There has been some good writing by Mosh, Erlend, and Meri about this topic worth pulling in. Permissioned spaces coming to atproto will also unlock a lot of important affordances for crafting protected spaces for organizers. For example, permissioned spaces on semble would turn into community-run search engines. My hope is that atproto is the missing infrastructural piece that enables us to really shape digital spaces around the specific needs organizers and their communities rather the...

COMMUNITY-BASED, HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN

We propose a radical change in design from experts designing for people to people designing for themselves, leveraging the creativity of communities to solve their own problems. People in communiti…