Connected Places

Bluesky gave me a verification checkmark last week.

I wrote an article this week about where community actually gets built on open social protocols, taking a closer look at what community shapes have actually been build on activitypub and atproto: Where Does Community Live?

Discord has announced plans to age-verify all users globally next month, as age verification laws around the globe are taking root.

Why open protocols matter now Telling my readers that open protocols matter feels like preaching to the choir, so I mostly don't focus too much on it.

Eurosky Live All the sessions of last week's Eurosky Live conference in Berlin are now available online, here.

I'm writing this update on the train back from the Berlin Eurosky Live event, and it was amazing to see so many people in person, had a great time with all the sessions and meeting so many great people!

This is the second part of this week's news, you can find yesterday's report here, with news of Ganders fundraiser and how atproto governance is in the process of being housed at the IETF.

Gander Crowdfunding Gander Social, a Canadian atproto-based social media platform currently in private beta, launched an equity crowdfunding campaign through FrontFundr at the end of October.

When people talk about decentralisation in the atproto ecosystem, the conversation almost always centres on Bluesky.

Building a new social internet on open protocols is by its vary nature a highly political project.

A short report with some thoughts on two articles about Bluesky and atproto this week, as well as some additional links that stood out to me.

The Trump administration functionally rules via decrees on social media, and extensively relies on social media for validation of their policies and proposals.

Programming note: I've barely written about atproto in the last month: some issues with my shoulder severely limited the amount of hours I can spend at a computer each day, and I've had to prioritise some paid work in the limited time.

(a short bonus post because I need an example of a Leaflet post with an image embedding as a heading, and figured I might as well write something) Sebastian Vogelsang, whose the developer of Flashes and working on the commons moderation service for Eurosky

I was chatting with Sebastian Vogelsang (who's behind Flashes, Skeets and Eurosky), and he mentioned that he had recently given a presentation about atproto for media people.

An overview of the last week or so of news related to atproto tech.

Small note beforehand: If you've followed me before, you likely know that I write a weekly ATmosphere Report with all the news about Bluesky and the ATmosphere every week, over at connectedplaces.online.

Small note beforehand: If you've followed me before, you likely know that I write a weekly ATmosphere Report with all the news about Bluesky and the ATmosphere every week, over at connectedplaces.online.

Small note beforehand: If you've followed me before, you likely know that I write a weekly ATmosphere Report with all the news about Bluesky and the ATmosphere every week, over at connectedplaces.online.

Calls for people to get off Substack pop up regularly on the open social web.

Here's a sentence for you: Bounce is a new cross-protocol social graph migration tool that uses a protocol bridging service to create an mirror account on the sending protocol, which simulates the effect of sending your social graph across protocols.

Bluesky is banning access to its app for people from Mississippi following a new drastic age verification law: View post on Bluesky Some thoughts: Bluesky PBC is fully onboard now with viewing clients as access points to the network, and as the point where

The new Substack for "centerleft" (lol) writers decided to open their launch with a passionate argument of why its totally fine to stay on Twitter.