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𝕮 • Chris Shank@chrisshank.me · 2d ago

The PDS's account management page is severely undercooked and illegible to end-users, compared to how important one's atproto account might become... but it does exist (e.g. bsky.social/account). What @archivistmoth.bsky.social suggests is much needed functionality.

A Nutrition Label, for Your PDS's Sake

your data is yours now, which apparently means it's everyone’s

published-drafts.leaflet.pub

Archivist Moth@archivistmoth.bsky.social · 2d ago

I have a tiny critique of many of the AT protocol apps I've been using lately and would love to see a new standard practice adopted in the community. Let's start being very forward what gets added to a user's PDS. published-drafts.leaflet.pub/3myzqetuwb22z

𝕮 • Chris Shank@chrisshank.me · 2d ago

There's a wonderful piece by Stuart B. Ewen called "Advertising as Social Production" that touches where this emerged before it was weaved into hypermodernity (e.g. the Steve Jobs' sales pitch) and now technofascism. repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/...

Quote from the essay talking about how in the 1920's industrial production became so efficient business men realized they had to reorient themselves as "social producers" to expand and create markets. A screenshot from the essay talking about how modern advertising developed as a direct response to mass industrial capitalism and how in the 1920's the amount of money that went into advertising exploded.
vortex_egg@vortexegg.com · 2d ago

One of the political bets of tech—of social media, AI, the financialization-of-everything, disinfo & bots, alt-media, and lately betting markets—is you can create an "overlayer reality" that is as a shared collective belief of the world that has more power than other ways of collective belief.

nel@nel.pet · 3d ago

one thing in the current atproto landscape that worries me a bit is how much (particularly post-oauth) a lot of the ecosystem is starting to build around or assuming patterns where we dont draw a distinction between clients/user-agents vs the rest of an application and where the application backend

𝕮 • Chris Shank@chrisshank.me · 4d ago

Literal case in point, this is just a guy vibing a million lines of code over the last week to rebuild Jira and Salesforce.

OccupySaaS — They laid us off. We're rebuilding their SaaS.

Clean-room, AI-assisted, open-source, drop-in replacements for the SaaS giants. Apache-2.0. Self-hosted. No per-seat tax.

occupysaas.com

𝕮 • Chris Shank@chrisshank.me · last wk.

I've yet to see much discourse about the way agentic coding seems to reinforce the troupe of the solo hacker/developer, who can take on the world all by themself. The form factor of programming already nudges us in the direction isolated work...

Gordon@gordon.bsky.social · 4d ago

App stores always seemed at odds with internet scale, to me. The curated approach only ever worked through pretty extreme top-down control and denying lots of good stuff. I find it helpful to shift mindset toward search and ranking over an open ecosystem (with all the mess that openness implies).

Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW)@hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 4d ago

The thing is that AI slop flooding storefronts is fundamentally a hard problem. I'd personally call it one of the hardest moderation problems on the modern internet

𝕮 • Chris Shank@chrisshank.me · 7d ago

My fall 2026 "atmosphere for layfolk" update: PDS (repo) -> Internet Account PDS (host) -> Account Service Provider Appview -> Content Service DID -> Internet phone number Record/Lexicon -> file/file type

𝕮 • Chris Shank@chrisshank.me · 10mo ago

Given the response we’ve seen to Dan’s essay, I feel more confident in this metaphor. But I feel dissonance stemming from atproto terminology – PDS, lexicons, repos, records, collections, and app views are coined by developers, for developers.

Anna E. Cook@annaecook.com · last wk.

“I don’t need accessibility,” says the tech bro, dictating instructions to his agent by voice. “We can’t prioritize accessibility right now,” says another, while his agent completes his tasks by reading the accessibility tree.

𝕮 • Chris Shank@chrisshank.me · last wk.

I've yet to see much discourse about the way agentic coding seems to reinforce the troupe of the solo hacker/developer, who can take on the world all by themself. The form factor of programming already nudges us in the direction isolated work...

𝕮 • Chris Shank@chrisshank.me · last wk.

A best practice in the atmosphere I’d like to see is for this to become an orderable list with automatic fallback instead of selecting a single index. No reason we cant make this experience seamlessly resistant.

Eurosky Social@eurosky.social · last wk.

Bluesky seem to have had some problems this morning, our Eurosky infrastructure has been operating as normal. On @mu.social go to settings -> networks services -> content service and select ‘Eurosky’. Remember this next time you get an error :)