Octothorpes Protocol

Our new version is live! Read all about OP v0.6 at docs.octothorp.es/blog/point-o... #octothorpes #softwaredevelopment #0.6

was the key really 4

everything is back up

Our datastore server appears to be down, so if you're not seeing #weirdweboctober posts, that's why. Will update when it's back up

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

we deserve social spaces that are big enough to create and evolve culture regularly, but not so big that it's everyone on earth. and we shouldn't have to feel hyper-surveilled, objectified by or scammed by the stewards every day in those spaces. we deserve to have fun.

🫣aww shucks thanks @jennschiffer.com we love weird web october and are proud to be part of it!

We're so happy to once again be part of #weirdweboctober There's so much good stuff from past years, and new stuff coming in that we thought we'd build something to make it easier to find all of it. After all, OP is all about discoverability and browsing! Check out weirdweboctober.website/browse

giving Weird Web October a try this year! potch.me/2026/weird-w...

this is very exciting!

Websites are cool. Make one. Carve out your own space on the internet.

Knap is open source. You can use it via CLI or add Knap to your app. Try the playground! knap.md

colorstudies.neocities.org made a real big site with my collection of colors and textures

inference

"GPU texture address mode collies" meme continues to be my main achievement in life, I think.

happy #htmlday everyone

the most serious and important project in the atmosphere give the @blackskyweb.xyz team some love or some money ;) opencollective.com/blacksky

ok, i tried this over on mastodon, let's see if y'all come any closer. without looking, how many blogs do you think are on Tumblr in 2026? - 1000ish - 100,000ish - 1,000,000ish - 10,000,000ish - 100,000,000ish - moar

I wrote this little explainer! It's geared toward those with NO context about the Atmosphere and who have never touched code. Great for 🌸 linking in the replies when people are like "wats atmoshere?" 🌸 sending to people you love 🌸 linking in blog posts when you mention the Atmosphere in passing

oh hells yeah

The new @crossref.bsky.social metadata schema has been released: Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT), new record types for blogs and posters, expanded archive and clinical trial metadata. You can read more about it here doi.org/10.64000/6xx...

this month is the 3-year anniversary of playhtml.fun ! now powers thousands of tiny social spaces with active playing, making, & sharing every day realtime, persistent interactivity in a few lines of code, no server needed! fighting for a more alive, inhabited public internet

This @surf.social feed was created to help people affected by the Venezuelan earthquake reconnect with family & friends, share updates, & find information. I’m also reposting from those offering help and assistance. Feel free to communicate or share relevant information. surf.social/feed/surf%2F...

Ok #atproto devs and friends. We'll be running a "get off of corporate social media" workshop. Gimme your best guides to the Atmosphere you got. for a *general* audience please

HOORAY FOR MY NICE TRANS FRIENDS!!!

@ewancroft.uk Trying out Jasper and getting a "Import failed: Error: posts_1.json not found in ZIP archive" error on an archive fresh out of Insta. Thoughts?

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/

Growth has slowed on the open social web. We can’t win fighting Big Tech on their own turf: we need to move sideways. New ‘holdfasts’ (see @kissane.myatproto.social) won’t grow from protocols alone: we need to build communities. Some paths emerging here: www.blog-pat.ch/moving-sidew...

we do use claude, but today's OP outages were entirely a human's fault

After big dams on the upper Klamath River in far northern CA were removed in 2024, Chinook (king) salmon migrated upstream for the first time in 100+ years--and now they have hatched.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

so, uh, how we all doin

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

YPProto (YahooPipes Protocol)

@surf.social How do you handle hashtags on posts from RSS feeds or stuff outside of ATProto or ActivityPub? #taco gives me posts with #taco but also account names or post descriptions containing the string without a hashtag

Today we're also introducing surf.social to let anyone surf the whole social web including over 130K feeds that bring together people, podcasts, YouTube channels, newsletters, blogs and images for whatever you're into.

Our last post was posted as part of our first #ATProto integration demo, which also sent it to @leaflet.pub. Check out the video and the canonical webpage for more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBX... and demo.ideastore.dev/publish-to-at #octothorpes joins the #atmosphere