"the most enduring social networks ... [are] the ones that empower organizers... coaches, teachers, volunteer coordinators, union stewards, event planners, health workers, running club hosts, activist organizers, and owners of community-based businesses ... making decisions on behalf of a group ... turn a collection of individuals into a functi…

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 financia…

A perfectly brilliant way to introduce AT protocol."What do files have to do with social computing? Historically, not a lot—until recently."Dan first reintroduces files: how they were not originally intended "to live inside the apps... [but] somewhere that you control. Apps create and read your files on your behalf, but files don’t belong to the a…

The creators' account of their co-development of, and move to, standard.site, "and how we plan to grow publishing × open social together".Standard.site is "a set of shared standards for longform publishing on the open social web...a set of AT Protocol lexicons for:publication metadata: what a publication is, like its name, description, and basic t…

My proposal to the atproto.science conference: "I'm interested in exploring how we can manage competition and cooperation in the atmosphere."

Drupal founder Dries Buytaert: "Looking back, the most important things I learned weren't really about software. They were about people, scale, and what it takes to build something that lasts. Twenty-five years, twenty-five lessons."I won't list them all here, just reflecting on those that resonate with and/or surprise me the most:"Growth and gene…

X is "a power problem, and why you cannot compete as platforms with power... The world’s richest man runs a subscription service to remove the clothing from photographs of children ... [and] it’s crickets... Society is going through the motions of vocal condemnation... then not enforcing anything... ... very clearly afraid of picking a fight wit…

A POSSE-oriented publisher "discovered Standard.site, a new set of lexicons designed especially for publishing ... [with] canonical URLs that point to my site... a journey that significantly boosted my knowledge of ATProto and how Standard.site could be a new gateway for publishing content"It gets a bit technical as he builds his new site using St…

"enables Obsidian users to seamlessly add additional semantic structure to their notes, including specified page types and link types that model scientific discourse, to enable more complex and structured knowledge synthesis work, such as a complex interdisciplinary literature review, and enhanced collaboration with others on this work."

"an information model that enables everyone to map their ideas and arguments in a modular, composable graph format... allow researchers to break the scientific research process into its atomic elements in a way that can be shared, remixed, and updated... Like Lego™️bricks... a decentralized knowledge exchange protocol designed to be implemented…

"I was in Berlin last November to present at a satellite event around the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty. The two posts which resulted are below, followed by the latest from the growing ATProto4Science movement."

A 34 minute read: "Gas Town helps you with the tedium of running lots of Claude Code instances", or its competitors. It's unpolished, 100% vibe coded, and only for those at Stage 7 of the 8 stage AI-assisted coding journey, "or maybe Stage 6 and very brave", because "Gas Town is an industrialized coding factory manned by superintelligent chimpanze…

"a year filled with a lot of different trends":"“reasoning” aka ... Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) ... Reasoning models with access to tools can plan out multi-step tasks, execute on them and continue to reason about the results such that they can update their plans to better achieve the desired goal... also exceptional at p…

Remember this next time you're arguing with someone on the internet:"Hey, can you mansplain any louder?""Yeah, sure!"

"A popular resolution each new year is to do a "digital detox"... But studies are mixed on the benefits... [the very idea] puts the blame on us ... that we have insufficient willpower and we could put our phones down at any time if we really wanted to. This completely ignores the deliberatively manipulative design of the apps ... There are literal…

How to study the ATmosphere, which "consists of multiple layers: Layer 4: Social phenomena (communities, discourse, norms) Layer 3: User behavior (posts, follows, moderation) Layer 2: Applications (Bluesky, various clients, Feeds) Layer 1: Protocol (AT Protocol, DID) Layer 0: Infrastructure (servers, networks) Each layer falls under different acad…

Good example of ATScience: "Paper Skygest is a personalized research feed that shows posts about papers from accounts in your following network."

"Standard.site provides shared lexicons for long-form publishing on AT Protocol. Making content easier to discover, index, and move across the ATmosphere" - by the makers of leaflet, pckt & offprint - a good example of how builders can just collaborate on the ATmosphere without drama: "The standard grows when builders identify shared needs and ali…

Bluesy's Paul Frazee on where cloud computing went: "the clouds are closed... they'll do everything well except interoperating with others. But there's nothing that says clouds have to be closed. Closed networks are a big company thing, not a cloud thing... We need to bridge our clouds... Atmospheric computing is a paradigm of connected clouds".O…

Necessity is the mother of invention, which is why innovation comes from the edge: here's Rudy celebrating a year of Blacksy with some quite remarkable announcements."I need to live in a world where I can privately send that friend money for anything from groceries to car repairs without it being woven into some CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY NARRATIVE and w…

The producers would "love to make Leaflet better for scientists", and set out some ideas how.Annotations: "Semble is working on a lexicon for inline annotations which sounds cool and may have some overlap with Leaflet... Something like post references is closely related"References and backlinks, referencing Semble's "trackbacking... basically a b…

Articulates what I was saying in Berlin, but makes a better case from the researchers' perspective:"Researchers' identities are fragmented. Grant IDs, ORCID, institutional email addresses, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, and various social media platforms... The core of "who I am" depends too heavily on institutions and platforms."Instead of thinkin…

NotebookLM co-founder has until now "described NotebookLM as a tool for understanding and exploring the information you need... But we also think NotebookLM could be an AI-first distribution platform, amplifying expert knowledge on a wide range of topics... a preview of that vision: Featured Notebooks...the backstory... We’re going to be able to b…

"tools like NotebookLM only answer from your uploaded files. No making stuff up. No “convincingly wrong” summaries... isn’t about AI writing for you. It’s about AI helping you think through what you already collected... transforms research from a filing system into a conversation".After a brief description of how it works and what it doesn't do - …