ok, i tried this over on mastodon, let's see if y'all come any closer. without looking, how many blogs do you think are on Tumblr in 2026? - 1000ish - 100,000ish - 1,000,000ish - 10,000,000ish - 100,000,000ish - moar
Octothorpes Protocol
@octothorp.es
Octothorpes is an open protocol that lets you put hashtags and backlinks on your own website to connect with other independent sites across web rings using OP.
I wrote this little explainer! It's geared toward those with NO context about the Atmosphere and who have never touched code. Great for 🌸 linking in the replies when people are like "wats atmoshere?" 🌸 sending to people you love 🌸 linking in blog posts when you mention the Atmosphere in passing
Bluesky and Leaflet are in the Atmosphere!!! ...wtf does does that mean? Here's a little explainer, written for everyone. No tech experience or prior knowledge required. All you need is 4 minutes or less :D
oh hells yeah
Just released an early preview of Zemble, a @zotero.org plugin for @semble.so! - Augment you Zotero library with all of the activity happening on Semble/Atmosphere. - Easily save and view items in Zotero on Semble. - Publish Zotero collections as Semble collections.
The new @crossref.bsky.social metadata schema has been released: Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT), new record types for blogs and posters, expanded archive and clinical trial metadata. You can read more about it here doi.org/10.64000/6xx...
Schema 5.5 now available: adding CRediT, new record types for blogs and posters, and more - Crossref
Research is rarely limited to a single contributor performing a single role. Behind every research output are people contributing in various ways: software development, data analyses, methodology desi...
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this month is the 3-year anniversary of playhtml.fun ! now powers thousands of tiny social spaces with active playing, making, & sharing every day realtime, persistent interactivity in a few lines of code, no server needed! fighting for a more alive, inhabited public internet
This @surf.social feed was created to help people affected by the Venezuelan earthquake reconnect with family & friends, share updates, & find information. I’m also reposting from those offering help and assistance. Feel free to communicate or share relevant information. surf.social/feed/surf%2F...
Four Earthquakes by JanetteSpeyer on Surf
Surf - Four earthquakes in one day. Two hit at the same time in my neighborhood in Caracas. Follow this feed for earthquake updates from Venezuela, Japan, and San Francisco.
surf.social
Ok #atproto devs and friends. We'll be running a "get off of corporate social media" workshop. Gimme your best guides to the Atmosphere you got. for a *general* audience please
@ewancroft.uk Trying out Jasper and getting a "Import failed: Error: posts_1.json not found in ZIP archive" error on an archive fresh out of Insta. Thoughts?
Our new version is live! Read all about OP v0.6 at docs.octothorp.es/blog/point-o... #octothorpes #softwaredevelopment #0.6
Announcing Version 0.6
OP Dev Blog
docs.octothorp.es
Introducing Disperse: an experimental sharesheet that allows you to share to several Atmosphere services at once. At launch, it supports @bsky.app, @blackskyweb.xyz, @semble.so, @margin.at, @rabbithole.land, @kipclip.com, and @sill.social, with more planned. 1/
Introducing Disperse: A Share Sheet for the Atmosphere · augment
A blog by Anuj Ahooja
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Been sitting with how many Black Civil rights leaders bled and died to ge the voting rights act only for it to be struck down by this white supremacist supreme court. This is from bloody Sunday which catalyzed passage of the VRA. It's hard not to shed tears at what we've lost.
Growth has slowed on the open social web. We can’t win fighting Big Tech on their own turf: we need to move sideways. New ‘holdfasts’ (see @kissane.myatproto.social) won’t grow from protocols alone: we need to build communities. Some paths emerging here: www.blog-pat.ch/moving-sidew...
Moving sideways: paths to growth on the social web
Network resilience on open social networks is emergent, writes Laurens Hof. Riffing on this, and looking beyond the recent DDoS attacks, the feeling of becoming and emergence is what I love about dece...
blog-pat.ch
we do use claude, but today's OP outages were entirely a human's fault
After big dams on the upper Klamath River in far northern CA were removed in 2024, Chinook (king) salmon migrated upstream for the first time in 100+ years--and now they have hatched.
Chinook salmon found naturally hatching in Upper Klamath River for first time in a century
The Klamath Tribes are celebrating evidence of Chinook salmon spawning in Klamath River tributary.
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The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted
I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com
@surf.social How do you handle hashtags on posts from RSS feeds or stuff outside of ATProto or ActivityPub? #taco gives me posts with #taco but also account names or post descriptions containing the string without a hashtag
Today we're also introducing surf.social to let anyone surf the whole social web including over 130K feeds that bring together people, podcasts, YouTube channels, newsletters, blogs and images for whatever you're into.
Our last post was posted as part of our first #ATProto integration demo, which also sent it to @leaflet.pub. Check out the video and the canonical webpage for more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBX... and demo.ideastore.dev/publish-to-at #octothorpes joins the #atmosphere
OP and ATProto integration preview
YouTube video by Ním Daghlian
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Early Publisher demo with ATProto - Octothorpes Demo This page describes the yet-to-be-released Publishers feature and how it can connect to ATProto https://demo.ideastore.dev/publish-to-at #octothorpe #atproto #posse #ATproto #demo
Fuzzy Matching - Octothorpes Demo Demo of fuzzy matching https://demo.ideastore.dev/fuzzy-matching #webdevelopment #demo
Blogrolls OP lets readers subscribe to your blogrolls https://docs.octothorp.es/blogrolls #demo
Webring component - Octothorpes Demo Easily add a webring navigator to your site with our web-ring web component https://demo.ideastore.dev/webring-component #webrings #demo
Tweeter Page Gosh I like hummingbirds. https://octothorpes.neocities.org/tweettweet #hummingbirds