Hey, an informal announcement, but my budget is tight and I’m a full-time student. I figured that I’d post here that I’m looking to do freelance work, particularly when it comes to writing. What I specialize in: open source, exploring technology, how-to guides, interviews.

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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We collaborated with @timothychambers.net to provide a follow-up from his "Seven Deadly UX Sins for the #Fediverse" series. It's a way to reflect on how things have changed over the past six months, with clear ideas on where things are headed.

The Seven Deadly Fediverse UX Sins: A Redemption Report Card

Six months after an initial analysis, two Fediverse experts come back to examine where user experience has changed. Are we on the path of redemption, or repeating the same old sins?

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Newsmast has been absolutely killing it lately. Turns out, one of the best approaches for Fediverse advocacy involves building communities and giving them tools to make the experience seamless and easy.

Michael Foster@michael.eurosky.social · 4mo ago

The @newsmastfoundation.org Apps for Change pilots are all live, across four flavours of app. Over the next two months, everything we’ve co-designed with our pilot communities will be embedded into our Build-an-App programme, for easy onboarding. Here's an update: www.blog-pat.ch/apps-for-cha...

My reflections on an amazing atmosphereconf On how the atmosphere can be understood as a subculture, what the holdfast is, and what We Can Just Do Things means connectedplaces.online/reflections-...

Reflections on AtmosphereConf

A reflection on AtmosphereConf, understanding this network as a subculture, joy, and what "We Can Just Do Things" actually means

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Wow we got @phanpy, @loops and @peertube on the front page of @TechCrunch today thanks to @altstore! https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/alternative-app-store-altstore-pal-joins-the-fediverse

I humbly come to you to ask: do you know of any bloggers that write regularly about the #Fediverse, #ActivityPub, #ATproto, or anything of that nature? It feels like it’s harder and harder to find individual voices and perspectives. If you’re writing stuff, I’m interested in following you.

I don't think @toni.bsky.team will be bad for bluesky, but if you don't want to use a platform run by a VC funded by VC's you can continue to talk to everybody here by switching over to @blackskyweb.xyz's servers. Compatible and entirely seperate from bluesky infrastructure.

Check it out, you can now get our news from within apps like @leaflet.pub and @pckt.blog! Here's an example of our profile: leaflet.pub/p/wedistribu... Are we doing it right? 😀

Okay, so...we're experimenting with setting up our ATproto integration with WP-Wireservice! Special thanks to @tylerjfisher.com for the awesome plugin and resources. We'll keep you posted on how it goes. 👀

I wrote up a piece on how standards are made, because of some folks being very negative about the grant on other social networks: writings.thisismissem.social/how-standard...

How Standards Are Made

Recently I received a large grant from Bluesky Social PBC to fund my work on FedCM for decentralized web. So whilst the response has been overwhelmingly positive, there's currently a tiny tiny percent...

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Jay Graber, the CEO of #Bluesky, is stepping down. She's pivoting to a new role at the company, and will stay involved in day-to-day development of the network.

Jay Graber Steps Down as Bluesky CEO

Jay Graber is most widely known as the CEO of Bluesky PBC. In a surprising announcement, she is stepping down from the role to serve as Chief Innovation Officer.

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Blacksky's app view source code has been released publicly here.

GitHub - blacksky-algorithms/atproto: Blacksky fork of bluesky-social/atproto with AppView performance optimizations, caching, and community features

Blacksky fork of bluesky-social/atproto with AppView performance optimizations, caching, and community features - blacksky-algorithms/atproto

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Huge progress has been made on implementing End-To-End Encryption in #ActivityPub, thanks to efforts by The Social Web Foundation, Bonfire, and Emissary.

Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon

One of the Social Web Foundation's initiatives for improving ActivityPub will soon be a reality for the network.

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Some thoughts on #Fediverse advocacy as it stands today, and some of the bold ways we could really move the needle on growing this network. Lots of interesting case studies.

Reimagining Fediverse Advocacy

Tackling the biggest problem of network effects: bringing people here.

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The latest issue of our newsletter, Relay, is out!

January 30th, 2026: New Frontiers

Welcome back! We've been on a break for the past few months, but with the new year, we're doubling down on our efforts to keep the Fediverse informed on the latest developments of the space. We've got...

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Jazzed for the conference and the ATProto x science side event we're co-organizing with @tgoerke.bsky.social 🚀 Save the date! 📆 Also - ideas for cool speakers or projects in the ATProto science space are most welcome! Feel free to share here/DM/email

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Announcing ATmosphereConf 2026, coming to Vancouver March 26th to 29th. We've got the full announcement and future news and updates on our new site news.atmosphereconf.org/3m3cwwz4mpk2j

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

For those seeking out a federated and open alternative to Tumblr, Wafrn is looking extremely promising.

Wafrn is for People Who Miss Tumblr’s Chaotic Energy

What started as a Tumblr-inspired publishing platform has taken on a life of its own within the Fediverse, evolving into something far more wild.

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We've been working to build up a list to keep track of people and projects within the ATproto ecosystem. If there's anyone we've missed, let us know!

very excited to share this update about bringing AT to the IETF! last week we uploaded two drafts to the IETF datatracker and today we heard that we’re approved to host a Birds of a Feather at IETF 124 (the formal meeting towards establishing a working group)

Taking AT to the IETF | Bluesky

Last week we posted two drafts to the IETF Data Tracker. This is the first major step towards standardizing parts of AT in an effort to establish long-term governance for the protocol.

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Tynan @tynanpurdy.com is wanting to have a set of resources to send to local publications & journalists about posting to Bluesky. Looking for resources & articles about success stories and getting started. Get involved and share in the forum here discourse.atprotocol.community/t/boilerplat...

Boilerplate Pitch to Publications

We know that Bluesky has better click-through rates than any other social media platform, and that publishing independence from platforms is more important now than ever. To that effect, advocating fo...

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The problem with banning someone who hasn't broken any policies is that the evilest people in the world may own this platform in the future and they can use that in the other direction and point to the OG builders actions and I swear we've seen this before am I in a timeloop

A little proof of concept I've been working on, it's a version of Bluesky that you can run locally, even on your laptop, that pulls just the data you care about from the firehose, indexes it, and provides you an interface to view and interact with posts.

GitHub - whyrusleeping/konbini

Contribute to whyrusleeping/konbini development by creating an account on GitHub.

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The video version of our latest episode is now on #PeerTube! We chatted with @quillmatiq.com and @snarfed.org about A New Social, what they're working on, and some interesting side conversations about where the Fediverse is heading!

Here's this week's issue of Relay, a roundup of things happening across the Social Web. Governance changes, questions of decentralization, and some new developments in the field.

September 7th: Rising Tides

Here's this week's roundup of things happening across the Social Web. Governance changes, questions of decentralization, and some new developments in the field.

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FediForum special event next week! Join us for an hour with Robert W. Gehl, who wrote a great new book about the Fediverse: "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the struggle for democratic social media." Come and hear excerpts from the book, and ask questions! We read […]

The Social Web Foundation has been experimenting with the lesser-known other half of the ActivityPub protocol. Here's what they're up to.

Social Web Foundation is Betting Big on Client-to-Server API

Nonprofit organization Social Web Foundation is quietly focusing on building tools, libraries, and prototypes to demonstrate what ActivityPub C2S could do.

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