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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.

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Womp womp.

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? 😀

Screenshot of We Distribute's publication showing up in Leaflet.

Oh wow, that was actually pretty easy.

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. 👀

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...

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...

Yeah, it might be caused by caching and content negotiation. Seems to be okay now, but definitely annoying.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

Tumblr is great, for the most part! However, the initial announcement of open sourcing Tumblr and moving it to the Fediverse appears to be significantly delayed. Wafrn is an attempt to build something similar from first principles.

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.

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

Great suggestion, we found a lot of gems!

Added you!

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!

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.

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)

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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 […]

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.

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