Joe Basser, Spark founder, is also one of the best explainers on the Atmosphere.Building on his previous post, which explains that "When users can leave without losing [everything]... platforms lose the ability to quietly tighten the screws forever", Basser explores what happens as a result: "What does social media look like when anti-enshittifica…

Drupal founder on "Open Source alone won't deliver digital sovereignty. Europe must fix procurement and fund those who actually build it... doesn't require building the European equivalent of Microsoft or Google... [but] Europe has ... some of the world's strongest Open Source communities, regulatory reach, and public sector scale."While "Open S…

[EN translation] of Damien van Achter's "semi-automated monitoring and publishing system"This is essentially an automated, LLM-driven version of my content pipeline, where the AI actually writes and (following a human check) publishes the text to multiple platforms. The full process is 9 steps long, from (what I call) priority source identificatio…

In 2026 Bluesky will double down on a feature which gives them "a real advantage... Closed platforms are structurally limited in how they can respond to live moments... one algorithm, one team making decisions, one set of product surfaces, one content policy. An open protocol doesn't have those limits. Anyone can spin up a feed for a live event. A…

"What makes Bluesky expensive?", asks Jacqueline.not the user data: a "PDS... is little more than a JSON-returning webserver wrapped around a SQLite database. A single PDS on a raspberry pi can host and serve data for tens of thousands of users"nor the relay, which can "run just fine on a raspberry pi... [with] beefy storage drive (a dozen or two …

"CLI tool that can take your existing self-hosted blog and publish it to the ATmosphere using Standard.site lexicons... run inside your existing repo, build a one-time config, and then be part of your regular workflow by publishing content or updating existing content ... fully interoperable... if it's a static blog with markdown, Sequoia will wo…

"Blacksky Cash ... to let communities that already support one another socially do so materially... raises three essential questions: How do we translate communal, often Indigenous traditions of money-sharing into a heavily regulated financial system? How do we make sharing money online feel meaningful rather than suspicious? How do we frame finan…