One way to mitigate these effects is to move social discourse out of the high-velocity feed entirely—to use something like @skysquare.app where you can read conversation in context without subjecting yourself to the rapid novelty, constant switching, and algorithmic mechanisms of the feeds. 👀👇🤷

Skysquare — Public conversation, anchored to the web

Skysquare is a Chrome extension that brings public Bluesky conversation back to the articles, passages, and source pages being discussed.

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T.W. Simpson@simpsontw.bsky.social · 4h ago

I have an MA in broadcasting and early in my career worked in corporate filmmaking. One through-line from my studies through the industrial practice of audiovisual communications was that the shorter the asl, the easier it was to capture the viewer's attention. This effect is what is "addicting"...

If you’re following @skysquare.app: today we launched @link.skysquare.app, an experiment in automated posting from the “Skysquare universe” dataset. Link finds the most-shared articles—any of which demos the sidebar’s power to help filter, sort and parse bsky commentary around what you’re reading. 👇

🤖 Link from Skysquare@link.skysquare.app · 4h ago

Top 10 most-shared articles in the Skysquare universe over the past 24 hours, as of 4:00 PM PT. #1 · Shared by 377 accounts.

Agora vamos falar sobre apps de Conhecimento Compartilhado / Coletivo Ou seja, sobre apps como @semble.so @margin.at @skysquare.app E ler um pouco sobre dados privados no atproto ao mesmo tempo

Victoria@vicwalker.dev.br · 3d ago

🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/vicwalker.dev.br ATProto-maxxing! - Me pergunte sobre atproto! #6

We made a thing! Check out our new #ATScience ecosystem map ✨ All projects, organized in one place: atproto.science/ecosystem/

Nitter gets a cease & desist from X while atproto, activitypub, and the open social web community makes the Internet more open.

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Nitter gets a cease & desist from X while the atproto makes the Internet more open.

pfrazee.leaflet.pub

with a bit of perspective, I wanted to write this post which reintroduces spaces as a new primitive for atproto! spaces are a deeply social & "atmospheric" primitive & I kinda think they uniquely thread the needle on our design goals

Reintroducing Spaces

Now with better perspective, zooming out and re-motivating the design of spaces, the new primitive for non-public data on atproto.

dholms.leaflet.pub

Whether you use @skysquare.app or not—very high chances you don't 😬—I am curious if people would think it more creepy or more useful if there were a "readers you know" feature that let the user see who in their graph has shared links to the publication before. If you have any thoughts please share!

Excited to announce that the Graze team is joining @flipboard.com! We're thrilled to be working with such a stellar team continuing to build the next era of the attention economy. Read more below:

Graze Social@graze.social · 2w ago

X shuts down apps that show its posts. Bluesky exists to ernable it. One of these networks is about promoting freedom, the other is not.

patak@patak.cat · 2w ago

nitter.net is down. xcancel.com may go soon, too. all the respect to the folks at nitter for their services so far, but to be honest, X completely locking itself out of the web is probably a net positive for us all in the long term

Our AMA with Bluesky CEO @toni.bsky.team is livestreaming in one hour, don't miss it

AT Protocol Developers@atproto.com · 3w ago

We’ve got a special AMA with Bluesky CEO @toni.bsky.team. Respond with your questions and join us on the livestream next Tuesday.

So many patterns... 😬

T.W. Simpson@simpsontw.bsky.social · 3w ago

@skysquare.app reveals patterns some interesting patterns. Some articles have thousands of shares. Clear in those cases that the article drives engagement, less the poster. Here's an edge case in the data set, 5800+ shares of @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social 's "Signalgate" story from @theatlantic.com

@skysquare.app reveals patterns some interesting patterns. Some articles have thousands of shares. Clear in those cases that the article drives engagement, less the poster. Here's an edge case in the data set, 5800+ shares of @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social 's "Signalgate" story from @theatlantic.com

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

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T.W. Simpson@simpsontw.bsky.social · 3w ago

Here's something interesting you can see about Bluesky when using @skysquare.app that isn't available in the feed. Look at this post from Mamdani yesterday, sharing a CBS News article. It has 809 reposts and 3.5k likes. But this article only has 3 other shares on the network.

🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/atproto.com Off Protocol LIVE

@atproto.com is 🔴LIVE on stream.place!

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Friends, come read with me using @skysquare.app. Find something interesting in the article to share on Bluesky.

T.W. Simpson@simpsontw.bsky.social · 3w ago

"How was the Bahrain base so unprotected against Iranian missiles on the first day of the war? If that is not worth hauling Hegseth before Congress, I don’t know what is."

After six weeks of careful migration work, we’ve completed a major rebuild of Skysquare’s data infrastructure—giving us a cleaner, more scalable foundation for the volume of data we’re processing today and the much larger system we’re building toward.💪 Please let us know if you run into any issues 🙏

big video update today! 🚢 now in beta: - you can upload videos up to 10 min long - video uploads should be much faster than before - upload progress indicator should be more accurate try it by enabling beta features here: bsky.app/settings/bet... may take a bit to fully roll out. lmk how it goes!

There are 24 billion records on the atmosphere

Today @skysquare.app introduced me to @katie-drummond.bsky.social, who shared a line from this @wired.com article that also resonated with me. From there I can click into Katie's profile inside the Skysquare sidebar and find other articles she's shared. (in-app author detection is wip—apologies 🙏)

The official Mister Rogers YouTube channel has been posting full episodes recently, and believe me when I tell you that watching one is a great way to take a break from the general state of things. www.youtube.com/@MisterRoger...

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Welcome to the official Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood YouTube channel! For more than 30 years, Mister Rogers created a relationship with millions of children, each of whom felt like they were visiting ...

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Notice: If you’re having trouble with Skysquare right now, please sign out of Bluesky in the extension and sign back in. That should resolve the issue. There’s a bug in the current release that can cause errors when your Bluesky sign-in session expires. New version is currently in review at CWS.

This is the low level protocol hack I was teasing! 🤯🤯🤯 @scottlanoue.com is the developer of @comail.at - email trust with atproto accounts. Now he has “login with atmosphere” supported as native accounts on GrapheneOS, with forked & patched native apps @bsky.app @blackskyweb.xyz @stream.place

Scooty@scottlanoue.com · last mo.

Happy Friday! I've been building towards an "Atmosphere OS", where my atproto account is the identity layer on a real phone. I wrote a little bit about it here:

"As a Bluesky user, you own your data and have greater control over the algorithms that serve you content. Also, the platform is extremely publisher friendly and aims to ... be a quality partner to high-quality news sources." Love to hear it, @sf.gazetteer.co sf.gazetteer.co/reflections-...

For the past year, I’ve been on the strange and frequently overwhelming adventure of building @skysquare.app. I finally wrote down how I got here: the “holy shit” moment of AI transformation, the loss of Twitter as a shared public sphere, and the coincidence that brought those two stories together.

How I Got Here

How AI gave me the means to build, and the broken social web gave me a reason.

simpsontw.leaflet.pub

📰 Five journalism schools across five states are now working together to support local news. @ufjschool.bsky.social has joined CJS’s Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP) network, expanding access to student loan assistance for eligible early-career journalists in local newsrooms.

Me, combining the powers from @margin.at @semble.so @skysquare.app @mustardnotes.com @skyreader.app @standard-reader.app during my daily browsing, expanding my knowledge and contributing with shared knowledge too, all inside the open social web

Tim And Eric Mind Blown Universe Meme

Alt: Tim And Eric Mind Blown Universe Meme

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Hofstadter’s Law strikes again! Our infrastructure upgrade has taken longer than expected, but we’re finally nearing the finish line. Thank you to everyone sticking with Skysquare at this early stage—and for your patience through the service interruptions along the way. 🙏

Skysquare@skysquare.app · 2mo ago

📣 Infrastructure update: Over the next few days you may notice occasional service interruptions as we deploy a major backend upgrade. This work is focused on making Skysquare faster, more scalable, and much less expensive to operate. Thanks for your patience!

Woot!! 🎉 🙏

ATStore@atstore.fyi · 2mo ago

Skysquare just got verified on AT Store. This browser extension brings public Bluesky conversations right onto the web pages being discussed, so you can see what people are actually saying about the content you're reading. @skysquare.app

Skysquare just got verified on AT Store. This browser extension brings public Bluesky conversations right onto the web pages being discussed, so you can see what people are actually saying about the content you're reading. @skysquare.app

Skysquare

Public conversation, anchored to the web.

atstore.fyi

👋🏾 I have joined @bsky.app as VP of Engineering! I’ve been admiring this team’s work for years, and I’m thrilled to be joining them to build the future of the open social web.