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hmmmMMMMMMmmm

10.03.2026 20:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm familiar with the work of the folks behind the Dark Forest Collective/Metalabel/etc, but curious what they're cooking up with this

10.03.2026 16:35 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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DFOS Dark Forest Operating System

what's up with this

10.03.2026 15:57 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 8 📌 0

Toni has been an advisor to us for years, and it's an honor to have him come in to lead us into this next phase 🚀

09.03.2026 19:32 👍 548 🔁 56 💬 46 📌 9

forever grateful to jay for pulling our little team together & making bluesky a reality 💙

i got to have a long chat with @toni.bsky.team and walked away convinced that he understands the atmosphere & is committed to our mission of open social

big things ahead & stoked for everything to come!

09.03.2026 19:24 👍 160 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 0

Jay seized a historical moment and speed-ran Bluesky through some wild times. I'm glad she's found her own way back to the big picture.

have had great conversations with @toni.bsky.team about standards work and open source governance. very important to have continuity of clueful leadership!

09.03.2026 20:11 👍 280 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 1

Thank you, Jay! None of this would exist without you.

09.03.2026 19:09 👍 1943 🔁 150 💬 89 📌 15

Big day! @jay.bsky.team will remain deeply involved as CIO and I'm personally excited she's dedicating more time on the future of atproto.

I'm also very pleased that @toni.bsky.team is joining us as the interim CEO. He seems like a thoughtful, experienced person who cares about the open internet.

09.03.2026 19:16 👍 344 🔁 37 💬 15 📌 8
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A New Chapter for Bluesky - Bluesky After several intense and incredible years building Bluesky from the ground up, I've decided to step back as CEO and transition to a new role as Bluesky's Chief Innovation Officer.

Some personal news: I’m transitioning from CEO to a new role as Bluesky’s Chief Innovation Officer! I’m excited to welcome @toni.bsky.team as our interim CEO.

More here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

09.03.2026 19:08 👍 6040 🔁 904 💬 574 📌 405

Heeey, look, it's me!

I'm super hyped to announce that @bsky.app have given me a grant to work on the standards for the Federated Credential Management API (or FedCM) to make them really work for all decentralized web applications.

09.03.2026 18:29 👍 432 🔁 79 💬 40 📌 10

if it's from Ian you know it's good shit

09.03.2026 17:02 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Blacksky migrated to their new app view last week and then released the code this week. Hard to overstate how impressive that is, for @rude1.blacksky.team and team it was a ~~Tuesday~~ Sunday.

09.03.2026 14:46 👍 126 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 1

it's kinda magical

08.03.2026 00:55 👍 41 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

lol same

07.03.2026 19:08 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

having used claude extensively for the past couple of months, i think there is still a lot of value to understanding your code and steering it intentionally. the amount of incidental complexity claude accumulates otherwise (which mostly results in bugs that it can't ever fix reliably) is staggering.

07.03.2026 03:00 👍 584 🔁 63 💬 30 📌 13

Was just dropping in to post this too, found this one fascinating. Also spoiled parts of the Oppenheimer movie for me :P

06.03.2026 19:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We're rolling out a change in image format.

If you see some images taking a second to load today, that's expected.

06.03.2026 13:47 👍 53 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 1

shoutout to @ds.bsky.team for adding inline translation to the app.

Bluesky is international. people who speak any language should feel welcome here, and easy translation helps make that happen.

05.03.2026 21:37 👍 92 🔁 17 💬 7 📌 1

shoutout to @thepope.dev for this update — we've been wanting to simplify this for a long time

custom feeds are part of what make Bluesky unique. lots more we can improve here, and we will!

05.03.2026 21:32 👍 95 🔁 13 💬 7 📌 4

making progress on pds.js tangled.org/chadtmiller...., there's something to be said about starting with the simplest possible implementation and working your way up from there. the core logic, at least, is zero dep, with a hexagonal architecture that allows different functionality via ports/adapters

14.01.2026 22:32 👍 28 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1

we infrequent posters need to stay strong

05.03.2026 20:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

welcome @doctorow.pluralistic.net!

on your own PDS host (bsky.pluralistic.net), using did:web (did:web:pluralistic.net), and self-controlled domain handle.

looks like things are working/interoperating; let us (the atmosphere ecosystem) know if you run in to any issues

05.03.2026 19:55 👍 157 🔁 22 💬 5 📌 1

made a quick pit stop in Dependency Hell today, was not a fan

05.03.2026 20:41 👍 43 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

tapping the sign

05.03.2026 18:10 👍 59 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Hey devs! Heads up, we're planning on making some changes to our image CDN tomorrow.

- Images will be served as WebP by default
- The URL format you get from the Bluesky API will change a little

You can look forward to an announcement about image quality soon 👀

04.03.2026 18:32 👍 305 🔁 45 💬 33 📌 46

this is huge! it's a big lift just to do the backfill indexing, but even more to get it operational and chase down all the little product affordances.

blacksky ships.

02.03.2026 19:53 👍 206 🔁 32 💬 0 📌 1

Personal news update: I'm delighted to announce that as of today, I am an actual Bluesky employee! I'll be working to welcome indie media and local govt to Bsky—and supporting those already here.

I'll always want to hear your thoughts on how we can make Bsky the sort of social media we all want!

02.03.2026 22:10 👍 6841 🔁 585 💬 549 📌 84
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announcing our €3,8M seed round and more on what's next

today, we're announcing our €3,8M ($4.5M) seed financing round, led by byFounders with participation from Bain Capital Crypto, Antler, Thomas Dohmke (former CEO of GitHub), Avery Pennarun (CEO of Tailscale) among other incredible angels.

read more on what's next: blog.tangled.org/seed

02.03.2026 09:51 👍 809 🔁 146 💬 54 📌 68
Screenshot from the linked page showing SDKs written in Python, Rust, Dart, and Swift

Screenshot from the linked page showing SDKs written in Python, Rust, Dart, and Swift

Screenshot from the linked page showing SDKs written in C# (.NET), Ruby, Zig, Elixir, and PHP

Screenshot from the linked page showing SDKs written in C# (.NET), Ruby, Zig, Elixir, and PHP

Look at all these community SDKs! (Nice work @alex.bsky.team compiling these)

atproto.com/sdks

27.02.2026 19:51 👍 74 🔁 9 💬 8 📌 1
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Permissioned Data Diary 2: Buckets The second in a series of posts building up a solution to permissioned data on atproto. We introduce buckets: a new protocol primitive for creating a shared social context.

new blog post on permissioned data in atproto! this one introduces "buckets", the protocol-level primitive for shared access control. I walk through two approaches that don't quite work and land on something that I think does

let me know your thoughts!

26.02.2026 18:12 👍 287 🔁 58 💬 19 📌 22