1) on a pure evidence base the US has repeatedly engaged in information operations. You can even find procurement examples to manipulate youth in Iraq. Obviously with cases like stuxnet - you know there’s milder stuff.

Scoiattolo@scarnecchia.net · 17h ago

And there it is #disinfo2026

we have an idea for communities in the app that we're calling "spaces" — places where people can gather around shared interests or social groups. here's a peek at some early prototypes. these are explorations, not polished or final. looking for feedback, esp from community builders 👀

alex benzer@alexbenzer.com · last wk.

the bsky team is working on various ideas for creating smaller social spaces in the app. which use case is most interesting to you? 1. posting into "topics" that organize public posts 2. posting into "communities" or "groups" that can be public or private 3. posting directly to your followers only

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

riffing with @matthieu.bsky.team about storing simplespace config as records in the space repo itself. curious what other space protocol thinkers think

Updateable space policy by matthieusieben · Pull Request #119 · bluesky-social/proposals

This is a suggestion that aims at allowing to change a space's policy after it's creation. The problem this solves is as follows: Say a bunch of existing spaces are created with simplespace...

github.com

hello, I am the person whose bsky app account switcher lists 22 accounts

I wonder what the USA LoC folks think now about having dumped their early twitter tape archive. I thought it was a reasonable call at the time (was "dark" and not getting used) but things have changed

OAuth consent screen just shows a summary reaction GIF

they should invent a 3:59pm that does not immediately roll over to 7:00pm

My research group is hiring someone based in the Chicago area. Come join us!

@communitydata.science · 3d ago

"We’re hiring! Join the CDSC as a Program Coordinator" (new blog post): blog.communitydata.science/were-hiring-...

I can't believe @groupe-sncf.com is on here and doesn't have a handle using .sncf (atproto spec intentionally would disallow '@sncf', aka the bare-domain handle. but `@tgv.sncf' or `@social.sncf' etc all work)

this is the way

Evelyn@kandake.africa · 3d ago

I know about all the tools to know if you're blocked, are on a mod list, and how to get notified but I've never used them. I simply don't care

@emily.space presenting @aster.id by @atproto.science at @atproto.wien meet up in #Vienna. Aster.id will be the future home for research in the open web.

Introducing the AOL members 90s web site archive: aol.restorativland.org The IA backup of AOL members sites was.. not as robust as the Geocities one, but there's still plenty of good stuff here. As far as I know this is the first browsable AOL Members Archive ever. Completely unexplored territory.

Here are some flowers for the @aster.id crew, who managed to announce their launch exactly when asters hit peak purple in north america. (They're smart like that.)

Hi protocol friends! I've been cooking up a Very Large PDS (vlpds) implementation capable of scaling up to billions of accounts and down to just one. It uses Object Storage as its only state, supports HA operation, live scaling up and down, is feature-complete with the reference PDS, and is FOSS.

Overview · vlpds docs

An atproto PDS whose only durable storage is an object store. Any node serves any request, one node can run a personal server for free, and a few nodes can carry all of Bluesky's write load.

vlpds.jazco.dev

(replies disabled) even if you conclude that private conversation is more important than public conversation, you can conclude that public conversation is relatively under-resourced / under-developed. almost all tech interest for a decade+ has been public broadcast (not convo) or private convo

Ian Preston@ianopolous.bsky.social · 4d ago

I'm still disappointed that Jack Dorsey limited it to public conversation. Society and democracy need private conversation to survive, not more mass surveillance. We need to design our protocols to fight surveillance capitalism not enable it. Silicon valley and the VC adjacent seem blind to this.

"why do so many people support politicians with such unpopular policies"

coming up on four years since I wrote "What is atproto good for?", and I think it has held up pretty well bnewbold.net/2022/atproto...

thinking about Bernard Moitessier again. just keep sailing, "parce que je suis heureux en mer et peut-être pour sauver mon âme"

two follow-up threads from the Atmospheric Groups working group this past week... what NSID should be used for the lexicons? I'm personally leaning 'opensocial.group' these days. what do you think?

Atmospheric Group Terminology and NSID

As an update, the tangled repo and current version of the proposal use opensocial.group. I’m now leaning towards that name personally. It is a bit friendlier, retains more of the history of this WG a...

discourse.atmosphere.community

We want to make it easier for creators to link out and attract financial support, so we're exploring a new feature that lets you add links on your profile. They show up as buttons under your bio.

STAR could be the serialization format for atproto spaces! maybe! the v1 format isn’t finalized yet, so now is a great time to share feedback and help shape it!

fig (aka:[phil])@bad-example.com · last wk.

restructured the repo a bit, took i think pretty much all suggestions, and split out the application profile and changelog bits. it's now a short spec! (yay!)

release has been released! read about it here: discourse.atmosphere.community/t/atproto-sp... including a migration prompt so hopefully your agents can one-shot the update!

Atproto spaces alpha updates

Okay as promised, we just cut another spaces alpha releast today! This includes the credential & sync changes that I listed above plus a small API field rename in listSpaces and simplespace.createSpac...

discourse.atmosphere.community

In which I submit a proposed addition to the discourse: pckt.blog/b/jesseplusp...

People, Not Feeds - transmissions from the atmosphere

How to move from addictive design to connective design

pckt.blog

☁️ Hello Atmosphere! People like to have opinions, which is awesome. Problem is, putting them into perspective is hard. Where We're At is here to change that! 👉 Head over to where-were.at to let us know your opinions about the state of the Atmosphere. We'd love to hear from you!

The modern research ecosystem of online tools and communities is controlled by for-profit companies. But we think that researchers should be the priority - not the product. So, we're announcing Aster ID: not-for-profit Atmosphere account hosting for researchers.

Announcing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web

blog.aster.place

this is starting now! hop in

bryan newbold@bnewbold.net · 2w ago

... and here is the calendar event (thanks @brittanyellich.com!)

doppelväxxed

just how deep does this turducken go

I'm excited to announce that the PLC Organization now has a statute! And a bank account! And a @standard.site publication! All the important stuff. The PLC Org is an independent Swiss Association meant to operate the PLC directory, which collects and distributes signed updates to atproto accounts.

First steps of the PLC organization - Public Ledger of Credentials Organization

One year ago, Bluesky Social PBC announced their intention to facilitate the creation of an independent organization to operate the Public Ledger of Credenti…

blog.plcred.org