anna 🍉☀️⛵
@anna.germnetwork.com
she/her founding engineer and community lead @germnetwork.com 🎨🎭 want to talk about building atproto tools for artists? join our group chat! https://bsky.app/chat/sqacBGv
Adversarial internecting! An awesome term, and a super interesting blog post about something that's been rattling around in my brain for a while. Thanks @permadeath.com 🤲❤️ permadeath.com/3mrbms2e7yk2...
Adversarial internecting - permablog
How to move data to the Atmosphere and screw over someone else's valuation in the process
permadeath.com
renowned country singer luke bryan just followed me but then bsky suspended his account:(
You read this week's blog post from Tessa... You read this week's blog post from me... Now presenting: this week's blog post from Mark 🤝🤝
Germ Network@germnetwork.com · 6d agoA storm is coming, but Germ is ready. With today’s release, Germ DM now defaults to post-quantum cryptography. Read our full announcement here: www.germnetwork.com/blog/germ-is...
Next big thing for Leaflet: helping creators monetize! 💸 First step = paid memberships for your publications Next, exploring other things like one-off payments — tell us what you need! Almost ready & we'd love to find some early partners, please fill out the linked form if you're interested!
Piloting paid memberships for the open social web!
Lab Notes 035: building monetization features for Leaflet creators, starting with paid memberships — tell us if you'd like to be the first to try, and what else you need!
lab.leaflet.pub
What if we all pool our money and start paying for billboards across the globe and all the billboards do is explain what “open social” means
Super interesting contribution to the cold start discourse. Need to go reflect on my own relationship with bigness, as an artist. “Don’t get hung up on bigness. Get hung up on finding places online you enjoy, and share them with people you enjoy, and be content—very content—in that.”
Aaron Ross Powell@aaronrosspowell.com · 7d agoMy contribution to the "Should writers switch to the Atmosphere even though Substack is bigger?" discourse.
Blacksky. Available now on iOS and Android.
Blacksky Algorithms@blackskyweb.xyz · last wk.Joining the beta is easy. Download for iOS: testflight.apple.com/join/ST8N2Qda Download for Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d... If you run into any issues, you can follow the instructions here for help: docs.blacksky.community/info-about-b...
I have a partial blog post sitting in my Leaflet drafts called "The Return of Homepages," but @anna.germnetwork.com basically beat me to it. We need to get the Internet back to a time when people enthusiastically had a URL of their own.
anna 🍉☀️⛵@anna.germnetwork.com · last wk.I'm convinced that there is a huge Atmosphere-sized hole in the personal website market, and here's why that matters👇
A special bit of pride for Anna’s amazing post given I met her as her writing professor 🥹 Many years later, I still love learning more from her and her transformational ideas!
anna 🍉☀️⛵@anna.germnetwork.com · last wk.I'm convinced that there is a huge Atmosphere-sized hole in the personal website market, and here's why that matters👇
Which @anna.germnetwork.com brings down to the individual users or businsses that just want to be found ... and not worry about being optimzed for algos. standard-reader.app/a/did:plc:hg...
Why websites? · from anna
“My proposal is: let's offer free atproto websites to capture the audience that wants to be findable... and then leverage that growth to boost the Atmosphere's attractiveness as a route for discoverab...
standard-reader.app
What an amazing string fof blogs published recently to explain the ATMospheric moment. The @leaflet.pub kicked one of the best simple sentences of what the the ATMosphere is right now. standard-reader.app/a/did:plc:bt...
What is the Atmosphere? · Leaflet Lab Notes
“The Atmosphere is an ecosystem of apps that use Atmosphere accounts.An Atmosphere account exists outside of any single app. It consists of a username and a big folder of all the content and relations...
standard-reader.app
Lost the original post but someone sent me an article by @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social that I think pairs very well! For my fellow website enthusiasts: aftermath.site/website-musk...
For The Love of God, Make Your Own Website - Aftermath
The internet felt like a limitless expanse of free expression. Now I usually end up at the same three or four websites.
aftermath.site
anna 🍉☀️⛵@anna.germnetwork.com · last wk.I'm convinced that there is a huge Atmosphere-sized hole in the personal website market, and here's why that matters👇
This is what irks me about generated design. SO many choices are automated I could point at any element on the page and ask why is this here, why is this like this, with no answer.
One of the earliest and best lessons I learned from a #design mentor was this: no arbitrary design decisions. Every single element should have a reason for being there and a clear relationship to everything else. In other words, good design is *resolved*.
At our municipal grocery stores, New Yorkers will get a 30% discount on eggs, milk, chicken, produce and other everyday essentials. In the wealthiest city in the richest country in the world, no one should have to wonder how they’ll afford the food they need to feed themselves or their families.
I would like to bring more of the fruits of the AT Protocol to the people who don't care about protocols, which is most people. www.wrecka.ge/launching-a-...
Launching a Cloud Atlas
The right questions to arrive with—and the right structure for what comes out of the interviews—are not completely obvious. So I’ve been spending some time thinking about clouds.
wrecka.ge
This! website=your own place on the net. So many FB-page only businesses right now 😬 Make a cheap and frictionless AT alternative to those pages and it’ll work. And from there it’s an AT starting point into events, blog posts, etc
Tuesday is for hitting Publish, it seems!! Bangers on the skyline from @pfrazee.com @kissane.myatproto.social @gov.glados.computer @kandake.africa @hipstersmoothie.com
This started up as a write-up for a cool hack I made (Atproto DID + Tailscale, coming soon 😎), but like many times before it started taking a life of its own, about how an integration of small scale networks is a more sustainable version of "internet scale" than large tech monopoly data centers.
Increasing lot sizes of our digital homes
From GeoCities to Facebook to Open Social and beyond: a history of digital homes, and a thought experiment for what comes next.
thinking-with-portals.leaflet.pub
After AtmosphereConf I was hit with the realization that I couldn't continue working in corporate tech where I had could not see the impact of my or the companies work on communities. I've started a new venture, Eskahlay, rooted in my nubian culture to build sustainable community technology.
Eskahlay UG@eskahlay.com · 2w agoFocusing on community technology A waterwheel, a protocol, and the case for technology that communities can own.
I'm convinced that there is a huge Atmosphere-sized hole in the personal website market, and here's why that matters👇
Why websites?
Personal websites as an atproto onboarding strategy
anna.pckt.blog
