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Read Bluesky posts about articles on the web—while you're reading them in your browser. Skysquare finds Bluesky posts about the web and places them alongside the pages themselves, showing who shared what pages, what they're saying about them. skysquare.app
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 · 5d agoHappy 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.
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📰 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
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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 · 4w 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!
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
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Public conversation, anchored to the web.
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👋🏾 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.
Using @skysquare.app, I realize people would use social quite differently if they encountered posts on the source page, rather than in the feed. An example—this is the quote that stood out for me as well, but Victor had already shared it. I can quote myself, or I can just RT his post 👇 #TrySkysquare
Víctor Manuel Ramos@vmramos.bsky.social · 4w ago“If I form an opinion, and there are books saying the opposite, I need to read them all, to know if I’m justified,” he continued. “If I’m not convinced, I should let my conviction go.” @nytimes.com
There are in fact over 3100 independent PDS account hosts blue.mackuba.eu/directory/pd... As well as @microcosm.blue created by @bad-example.com
Local-First Conf@localfirstconf.com · 3w ago@jakelazaroff.com on stage now talking about local first fits great with atproto. Learning lots about what a PDS user account hosting is, & how to connect into CRDTs.
The power of #LocalJournalism covering a critical global story.
Mission Local@missionlocal.org · 4w agoHundreds of people in San Francisco marched from tech company to tech company on Saturday, blasting OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google for barreling towards an AI future. They rallied under a giant "Stop the AI Race" banner. missionlocal.org/2026/07/san-...
📣 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!
Staying in the game I'm four months into my interim CEO role at Bluesky, and it's time for an update. Most importantly, as of today, the interim part of the title is gone. I'm... https://toni.org/2026/07/10/staying-in-the-game/
Staying in the game
I'm four months into my interim CEO role at Bluesky, and it's time for an update. Most importantly, as of today, the interim part of the title is gone. I'm loving the mission and the job, and I'm all in as Bluesky’s official CEO. This job has been energizing from day one, and the Bluesky...
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From meeting @toni.bsky.team in person at #AtmosphereConf to some good calls and emails, I’ve been happy with how he’s thinking about supporting the growth of the Atmosphere as well as paths forward for Bluesky. Quitting his VC “day job” to come build with us all together is great. Let’s go!
Toni Schneider@toni.bsky.team · 4w agoStaying in the game I'm four months into my interim CEO role at Bluesky, and it's time for an update. Most importantly, as of today, the interim part of the title is gone. I'm... https://toni.org/2026/07/10/staying-in-the-game/
📣 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!
The @tiles.run folks have released a shared lexicon for for public sharing of agent chat sessions lexicon.garden/lexicon/did:...
Tiles@tiles.run · 4w agoTiles version 0.4.15 Alpha 19 has been released. Added ATproto lexicon support for shared chats, an uninstall command to remove Tiles from the system, and various bug fixes across tool calling and the harness. Release notes: chat.tiles.run/YXQ6Ly9kaWQ6...
An example of how I'm using @skysquare.app: yesterday I read and shared this article. Today I came back and found other people had noticed it too, including @johntreynolds.bsky.social and @shawnsie.bsky.social. Shawn even shared the same quote I did. Naturally, I followed them both. 👋 guys!
T.W. Simpson@simpsontw.bsky.social · 4w ago👀 👇 "Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company, published a sweeping research paper on Sunday revealing that its Claude language models have spontaneously developed an internal structure that mirrors one of the most influential theories of how human consciousness works."
If you're here because Skysquare says it isn't available on the page you're reading: that's expected on most websites for now. Skysquare is currently in public beta and only activates on supported publisher domains while we expand coverage. More domains are coming. Thanks for helping us test!
Exciting new @atproto.science project! Congrats on the launch 🙌 Also see the #ATScience '26 talk by founder @simpsontw.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-pN...
Skysquare is context as a service - Travis Simpson - @skysquare.app - ATmosphereConf 2026
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Skysquare@skysquare.app · last mo.🇺🇸 Happy Fourth of July! On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we're opening the public beta of @skysquare.app. Read Bluesky conversations alongside the articles you're reading. Current build is fully functional; an updated release is awaiting Chrome Web Store approval. 🥁🥁🥁🎇
🇺🇸 Happy Fourth of July! On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we're opening the public beta of @skysquare.app. Read Bluesky conversations alongside the articles you're reading. Current build is fully functional; an updated release is awaiting Chrome Web Store approval. 🥁🥁🥁🎇
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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Why I created @skysquare.app—and why I believe the web needs it. "Decentralized protocols represent more than a technical innovation. They offer the possibility that public conversation might once again become part of the commons rather than the exclusive property of any single platform."
Why Skysquare Exists
An open letter on why Skysquare reconnects public conversation to source material, journalism, and the open web.
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Four days to public beta, y'all ready?
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Bluesky may be moving toward communities. That's a valid path. But if you're interested in preserving the public square aspect of the network, we're launching @skysquare.app on July 4 and remain committed to helping people discover and engage with public discourse connected to the open web itself.
Bluesky was launched as a Twitter rival — but it's far less popular. Now it's eyeing Reddit for inspiration
"I think the public square is not the direction we want to go in...we're very inspired by companies like Reddit," Bluesky's Rose Wang told CNBC.
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It's official, @bsky.app has integrated @standard.site into the app! This means posts from @pckt.blog, @offprint.app, and @leaflet.pub get a richer treatment in the app. More details about how this works on the atproto blog: atproto.com/blog/standar...
Now in your timeline: Standard.site
Articles from across the open web published with this community-built format now receive richer treatment in the Bluesky app
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CBS News Radio - beacon of information - is being extinguished by oligarchs today. Time capsule h/t @abradschwartz.bsky.social
A. Brad Schwartz@abradschwartz.bsky.social · 2mo agoBefore leaving to head the US Information Agency in 1961, Edward R. Murrow broadcast a farewell message to CBS staff and affiliates. Here's what he had to say: youtu.be/uXnva0X18FU?...
"News providers will need to accept that in future, the connection with their consumers must flow through a more direct relationship with their talent and one that feels less controlled, less formal, less corporate, human to human." www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/crea...
Creator journalism is the most disruptive shift the news industry has seen, ex-BBC News head says
"This is not just another technology-enabled stage in a story of media progress. What we're witnessing is the wholesale shift from one information ecosystem to another."
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Quick update: We made the call to migrate Skysquare from Jetstream to TAP to unlock the full historical graph and build a more complete data layer. That transition just hit a major milestone. Testing this week—cutover next. Public release still on track for July 4. Get early access: skysquare.app
Skysquare – A social layer for the open web
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All of us benefit from wider adoption. That's how public discourse works: the more of it, the better. Rn discovery is the obvious problem on @bsky.app. Allowing users to construct their own algorithm is a great value proposition, but by itself it's not going to keep people using the application.
