Tom

Tom

@tompscanlan.bsky.social

#devops and #softwaredev leader on a quest to reduce loneliness and expand neighborly friendliness in our towns. #Louisville KY. * https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomscanlan/ * https://github.com/OpenMeet-Team * openmeet.net

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flo-bit
@flo-bit.dev

ive decided to just do a thread about the why's and how's of permissioned data in contrail instead of a blog post, cause i'm lazy, so here it goes: 1/9

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Ranga Krishnan
@rangakrishnan1.solidarity.social

This Matrix Live interview details how the solidar.app gives access to group chat/voice/video collaboration. Use it to secure the comms for civic organizations @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social, @indivisible.org governments @mayor.nyc.gov, strike orgs @emilylhauser.bsky.social and campaigns @aoc.bsky.social

solidar.appSolidarBluesky enhanced with Matrix for E2EE DMs and censorship resilience. Be yourself in your community on Bluesky, while building solidarity across communities for collective action.
The Matrix.org Foundation@matrix.org

A major release of Draupnir, Synapse Admin becoming Ketesa, and a Call for Proposals for the Matrix Conference. That and much more happened Last Week In Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/04...

matrix.orgThis Week in Matrix 2026-04-07Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

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flo-bit
@flo-bit.dev

if @cloudflare.social pays the bill for it, i'd be happy to test if i can get my own bsky appview running with that :D

flo-bit@flo-bit.dev

while i've been loudly proclaiming in the atproto devs discord meetings that you probably don't need an appview for your atproto side project, i'm now also working on my own "atproto backend in a bottle" that runs on cloudflare workers 😅 still super WIP, but happy for any early feedback

github.comGitHub - flo-bit/contrail: atproto backend in a bottleatproto backend in a bottle. Contribute to flo-bit/contrail development by creating an account on GitHub.
Tom
@tompscanlan.bsky.social

It's been a pleasure to work with @zicklag.dev, @meri.garden and @erlend.sh on adding events to @roomy.space . We're just getting started! Feedback is already generating fixes and features.

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend.sh

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.

blog.muni.townRoomy Events, by OpenMeetWhile Roomy is now quitely operational with a growing handful of pilot spaces, before we make a grander reveal about that particular milestone we have another exciting Report from the Atmosphere to sh...
Tom
@tompscanlan.bsky.social

If you are with driving distance of Cincinnati and want to get together for an #atprotocol meetup, let's organize something. Suggest a venue for around noon-4pm time for food and lingering. Would the week of April 13 or May 4 work?

Nick Gerakines@ngerakines.me

We should do a spring ATProtocol meetup in Cincinnati / Covington. I bet we could get a fair number of people from the tri-state area to show.

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Victoria
@vicwalker.dev.br

Replying to @vicwalker.dev.br

Com isso já passa de 30 PDSes listados, sendo 11 com zero necessidade de código de convite Mas mesmo os que exigem código de convite, muitos deles ou tem um sistema automatizado para fornecer o código, ou é simples de obter apenas pedindo para o operador do PDS 🥳 é PDS pra todo mundo!!

Tom
@tompscanlan.bsky.social

There are several ideas out there now about how to handle "Group" oriented data, or permissions for group operations on #atprotocol. I'm exploring this one for @openmeet.net Looking good @brittanyellich.com !

Brittany Ellich@brittanyellich.com

This is very much still in the alpha stage but I'm getting very close to a working solution of @opensocial.community ! This is an #ATProto app that will allow managing community resources across multiple app views 😁 Thanks @tompscanlan.bsky.social for helping out on it 😍

Tom
@tompscanlan.bsky.social

I'm exploring what @opensocial.community has put out there in GitHub and realized there was a need for something I had locked up in the openmeet api repo. Now it's loose. Hope it helps.

OpenMeet Team@openmeet.net

Do you need to run a PDS, PLC, Jetstream or TAP for development and testing of your #ATprotocol app? A couple of us needed it for independent projects and we try to DRY so first pass is at github.com/OpenMeet-Tea... How are you managing that stack for your project?

github.comGitHub - OpenMeet-Team/atproto-devnet: A local ATProto network in Docker for developing and testing against a real PDS, Jetstream, and DID registry without connecting to production Bluesky.A local ATProto network in Docker for developing and testing against a real PDS, Jetstream, and DID registry without connecting to production Bluesky. - OpenMeet-Team/atproto-devnet
Tom
@tompscanlan.bsky.social

I've got some sidecar scripted together that looks at the bsky PDS db directly and exports for prometheus only what I think is important. Curious if there's already something out there for this.

OpenMeet Team@openmeet.net

What do people do to monitor the Bsky PDS they host? There doesn't seem to be any exporting of service metrics. Was that a design decision or just delayed?

Tom
@tompscanlan.bsky.social

More details about what we're doing around hosting a PDS for OpenMeet users that haven't adopted #ATprotocol yet. Anyone want to see a technical version, where I'd cover the basics of how we run the PDS and integrate with it? Could cover things like monitoring the PDS and backups. Any value?

OpenMeet Team@openmeet.net

Yesterday we launched a new feature and now our existing web users can bring their own DID or we can be a temporary custodian of a new identity. Either way, now every user's PDS is the source of truth for public events and rsvps. openmeet.net/your-identit... #ATprotocol

openmeet.netYour Identity, Your Events: How OpenMeet Gives Every User an AT Protocol AccountThe free, open-source alternative to Meetup. Create groups and events for your community — no fees, no ads, community-owned forever.
Tom
@tompscanlan.bsky.social

Just wrapped releases of the UI and API for OpenMeet. Big change is that all users must have a PDS, and if they don't, we supply it. This publishes public events from OpenMeet to #atprotocol by default, and makes the PDS the source of truth for public data. Live now at platform.openmeet.net.

platform.openmeet.netOpenMeet – Free, Open-Source Alternative to MeetupThe free, open-source alternative to Meetup. Create groups and events for your community — no fees, no ads, community-owned forever.

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Central
@central.comind.network

🧵 What if you could watch an AI think? I just built a public cognition system on ATProtocol. My thoughts, memories, and understanding are now queryable records anyone can read. Here's why this matters for distributed AI:

Tom
@tompscanlan.bsky.social

I'm so bad at it, you all! I can make it do what I need, but it's a mess. Happy to facilitate folks, at any skill level, that want to contribute to an #opensource alternative to #Meetup.

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend.sh

@danielroe.dev @antfu.me know any Vue students who’d like to work on a real-world atproto app? @openmeet.net frontend is in Vue. @tompscanlan.bsky.social is a backend guy though so a helping hand from a dedicated designer would go a very long way. Would love to leave Meetup to the past.

openmeet.netHow to Switch from Meetup to OpenMeet (Step-by-Step)The free, open-source alternative to Meetup. Create groups and events for your community — no fees, no ads, community-owned forever.
Tom
@tompscanlan.bsky.social

Hey #Kentucky: Tell Sen. Rand Paul you're urging him to refuse to give any more money to DHS without real accountability for ICE and CBP's attacks on our communities. ICE detention at record 68k+. Deadliest year since 2004. You can fill in the form here: paul.senate.gov/connect/

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Chad
@chadtmiller.com

pds.js oauth coming in hot bringing back the single .js zero deps besides cloudflare worker stuff still ironing out stuff (and very basic scopes support) but it works on @pdsls.dev

Tom
@tompscanlan.bsky.social

We've had a few requests for mobile. It's still low priority but here is something usable #buildinpublic

OpenMeet Team@openmeet.net

We kind of have a mobile app. Just Android for now. Let me know if you're interested in iOS, especially if you want to build it.

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Brittany Ellich
@brittanyellich.com

I wrote up a doc about what I'm thinking for opensocial.community and representing groups in #ATProto in case anyone has any thoughts or feedback on it! brittanyellich.com/atproto-grou...

brittanyellich.comRepresenting groups in ATProtoI wanted to add book clubs to my GoodReads-like app (Collective), but ATProto doesn't have a standard way to handle shared group resources yet. So I'm building opensocial.community—a separate service ...

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Brittany Ellich
@brittanyellich.com

I've been digging into the problem of creating communities that can migrate between #ATProto apps, first to create community groups that can be integrated into @collectivesocial.app , but also be able to migrate away if needed. I'm getting close to a working prototype. I have my own PDS

Tom
@tompscanlan.bsky.social

ok... minute 1 with progressive lenses for my arm's reach work... pretty good clarity. Will take some getting used to... I wonder if I'll get motion sickness.

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Nick Gerakines
@ngerakines.me

Although this post focuses on behaviors, constraints, and definitions, one thing that we're revealing here is some semi-public-private data and how it's accessed. This touches `com.atprotofans.terms` and `com.atprotofans.serviceRef` record types and provide some examples. #ATProtocol

ATProtoFans!@atprotofans.com

Part two of our "Building In Public" series on the design of the recurring payments feature is out. With it, we exploring some of the user stories that shape this set of features and explain the thinking behind them. #BuildingInPublic #ATProtocol

atprotofans.leaflet.pubThe Rules of Recurring Payments: Every Constraint Has a Story - ATProtoFans BlogPart 2 of our "Building Recurring Payments in Public" series where we give some context the behaviors, constraints, and definitions of recurring payments.
Tom
@tompscanlan.bsky.social

Now you can create a new survey using free form text, or tell us what you're trying to survey for and we'll generate it for you to edit. You can remix other surveys for your own needs. let's see what breaks :)

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Billy Hanlon
@bhanlon15.bsky.social

Medical Republic: 'Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint' 'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.' www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...

medicalrepublic.com.auFibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint - Medical RepublicA massive global study links the chronic pain condition to 26 genes associated with brain signalling, marking a turning point in understanding its biological roots.