Alex

For my first blog post, I've written some thoughts on open-source, StratosFund, and financial sustainability paths for Atproto. I hope it gets some interesting conversations started. #offprint https://the-better-future.offprint.app/a/3mkommpvxr523-a-better-open-source-future

Combat LLM spam by building a web of trust. Vouching is live on Tangled! 🎭 blog.tangled.org/vouching/

Shoutout to @timtinkers.online, @natalie.sh, @iame.li, and @almostzoey.bsky.social for making my first stream so great today! Thanks for watching me struggle through OBS studio 😂 Today was setup. Will plan another recorded stream to talk atproto economic sustainability ideas soon!

This pattern of people building cool things and then launching them/demoing them on @stream.place is lit and should continue

🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/agjoyner.bsky.social First Stream! Hang out and talk AtProto while I learn out how Streamplace works

Would you be interested? I'm considering doing a live stream on @stream.place place to discuss sustainable business model paths for projects on AtProto. I have some ideas, and I'm also very curious to hear what other people are thinking

GitHub got you down? Maybe it's time to change things up with tangled.org 🐏

What's a good checklist resource for all the latest things that should be done security wise before open-sourcing a repo?

Hey Open Source #Atmosphere Developers! We're looking for people to give feedback and test out our new feature funding process. All entries must be: - Open source or willing to convert - Have an active user base - Open to a 30 minute video call DM or comment below if interested!

For anyone building new apps and tools on ATproto that are … 🌐 on the Open Web 🌱 past the prototype stage ✨ reimagining the social internet New_ Public, @publicspaces.net and @waag.org are investing up to €10,000 in alternatives to Big Tech Learn more, share, or apply by May 1st newpublic.org/OSA

Introducing StratosFund.at! A new funding model to help open source projects in the #Atmosphere get PAID to bring your most requested features to life. 🤑💸💰 Let your favorite apps know what features you want most and how much you would pay if they build them. 📣 Join today! 1/2

Random thought: How many relays would need to be running before the PDS's would start to be overwhelmed with socket connections?

Now, imagine if Bluesky went down and never came back up again. But you log into Blacksky like nothing happened. You 🫵🏾 are used to your friendships and connections being lost because of a corporation’s actions. The collective AT Protocol project is to demonstrate otherwise. Tell a friend.

HTML in Canvas API is NUTS

Everyone is debating over Attie and how Blue Sky didn’t talk about how it would hurt Graze in the announcement. Ok I get that, but what’s wild to me is how few of people are talking about @spacecowboy17.bsky.social and the for you feed

At #AtmosphereConf last week, this was a big unanswered question: “How can AtProto apps make money sustainably that retains the values of this great community?!? No VC, Grants, or Loans!” I definitely have a conversation starter, and maybe a solution. Stay tuned 👀📺

Permissioned data is here, today, serving communities, creating space and agency. It just wasn’t done by the people you first think about. @blackskyweb.xyz and @transrights.northsky.social build against real, current need. #AtmosphereConf Great talk @kandake.africa

So what @sebastian.eurosky.social couldn't show you all in the demo was the redesign I've just done on the @eurosky.social portal with all the apps listed:

🚨 the ecosystem is delicate #atmosphereconf there's a LOT of enthusiasm + talent, but: - no magical investor monies - grant options are THIN - many first time founders - many don't want investment - few other options - scary macro env it's a collective challenge we can just pay for things?

Incredible. Though, of course, due to current setup, any records are public on atproto, and feels like @aetheros.computer should be more upfront in alerting people about that so people don't store private info this way. But this with permissioned data could be really interesting.

Building in the atmosphere means you don't have to go it alone. We know organizers, and the groups-of-coordination they facilitate, require digital infrastructure for events planning. Ergo @roomy.space needs Events. @tompscanlan.bsky.social agreed and magicked @openmeet.net straight into Roomy.

‘Making’ chess pieces from Lego. Wow ! Source / Creator: Greg Saniatan aka slopsmcgee, in collaboration with LEGO

I want people to be comfortable paying for an atproto account (ie. space on a PDS) It’s the bedrock of everything we’re building; if it’s not funded it’ll get squeezed in ways that are bad for users (hi Gmail) We should normalise having (very cheap) paid-tier PDS accounts on the services we build

I would love if the if the home page would be a "Welcome to the Atmosphere" type of explainer page that could appeal to non-tech people. If your non-techy, there would be simple "One account to have open access to all these apps" messaging, and a "for developers" that links to this site

@alex.bsky.team and @jimray.bsky.team are my heroes. the new atproto.com is absolutely amazing and the best part is how filled to the brim it is with real code examples and documentation. If I had this when I was starting out in atproto, i would have saved so much frustration and confusion.

New AT Protocol website coming! It looks fancy! Highlights building apps, bots/agents, and feeds. Highlights developer features: json, strongly typed, hyperlinked, and more! Has a live firehose! Then there's lots of documentation and tutorials. "We can just build things"

Emerging from being "down in the technical weeds" of #atproto is a little mashup of @semble.so & WayFinder (www.wayfinders.network) Semble team released "open collections" this week - here we explore the "private & permissioned data" collection, created by @bmann.ca & now with 3 other contributors

I'm looking around @semble.so and I love it. It'll be powerful at scale and so good for finding fresh research. I'm done with the 'town square' and want to hang in the town library. #NotAnAd Where's the tip jar? www.loom.com/share/8bf8ab...

YOOOO THIS IS HUGE

@semble.so search is getting really good! The cool part is that it will just get better as the community continues to curate content Thoughtful curation + user owned data + real social networks >> SEO slop I just saved this piece and found great stuff thru "Similar Cards" semble.so/url?id=https...

@margin.at interop just dropped in Semble 🤝 Your Margin bookmarks now show up directly on Semble ✅ The Atmosphere has no walled gardens 🌻 Happy cross-pollination 🐝 More details on how it works below 👇

So uh, we wanted to test some things, so we found the longest NPM package name. This is it. Th...anks, random person 14 years ago. @npmx.dev salutes you.

This is massive. The technology underlying Bluesky and other useful applications is on its way to becoming an Internet standard like HTTP or email.

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ATProto is now in IETF standardization process. BOF stage passed at IETF 124 Dublin. Working group formation is next. datatracker.ietf.org/wg/atp/about/

My FOSDEM talk is live! Decentralized Public Broadcast with Streamplace: video.fosdem.org/2026/k4601/P...

I'm finally joining the firehose club.

For people working on the geography of social media, this map is just awesome! arewedecentralizedyet.online/map/ Via @lille.atproto.fr @flefgraph.bsky.social

guys 😭😭 youtu.be/ZdM-iNpv3nU

🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/iame.li virtual atproto hang

Deeply grateful for the community here, a glimmer of hope in such dark times

I just gave a quick demo of @viewsift.com to a friend, and part of the demo was also giving a demo of @semble.so so he could see how account (and soon data) are shared across platforms.... Man I love working with #AtProto

Media types coming to @semble.so soon 👀

atproto is cool because I should be panicking that somebody is going to beat Streamplace to establishing a half-decent VOD lexicon/service. gotta be first to market at all costs, right? but i like… want it to happen? breaking monopolies is hard, we need everyone’s help. welcome to the revolution

Quick shout out to @katharinehayhoe.com to just say thank you! You don't know it, but your content & consistency has been very inspirational in building @viewsift.com over the past 6 months! In wild and wacky times like this, it's also helped to keep me informed and motivated. Thank you!