On verification and coordination authority
Who verifies the atproto developer community, and why can't it be the community itself?
Where Does Community Live? - some responses
I wrote an article this week about where community actually gets built on open social protocols, taking a closer look at what community shapes have actually been build on activitypub and atproto:
FR#153 – What does a Discord replacement look like?
Discord has announced plans to age-verify all users globally next month, as age verification laws around the globe are taking root. As many people understand the open social web in a form of contrast with Big Tech platforms, seeing it as a refuge from enshittification, this led to another round of conversations on what alternatives there actually are for Discord.
ATmosphere Report #147 - Year's end reflections
Some themes I'm watching for 2026: censorship resistance, the politics of interoperable spaces, and who gets to shape how atproto talks about itself.
ATmosphere Report - #144
Bluesky grants, on Eurosky conference, and how Gander is thinking about cultural sovereignty
ATmosphere Report 143 - Eurosky Live
on protocol architecture and power
ATmosphere Report #142 - more new apps
The launch of knowledge sharing platform Semble, some thoughts on the evolving dynamics around moderation, and a whole lot of links
ATmosphere Report #142
The Canadian atproto-powered platform Gander raises of 1.3M in fundraising, atproto at the IETF and Bluesky is the baseball app
Decentralisation and blogging on atproto
The space for blogging and long-form writing on atproto is rapidly developing, and it gives some interesting insight in what decentralisation on atproto looks like
ATmosphere Report #140 - its still all politics
Comparing the Dutch election results with how active politicians are on Bluesky
ATmosphere Report #139 Link bag - politics, atproto, and some more links
A short report with some thoughts on two articles about Bluesky and atproto this week, as well as some additional links that stood out to me.
The White House joins Bluesky
When a government joins a platform for the purpose of trolling
atproto news you might've missed last month
For You Feeds, music tracking with teal.fm, and fandom communities on atproto
Producer and Consumer apps
(a short bonus post because I need an example of a Leaflet post with an image embedding as a heading, and figured I might as well write something)
atproto is wire services for user generated content
another way to explain atproto
ATProto Tech News - ATmosphere Report #134
The atproto tech news of the last week or so
atproto tech news - ATmosphere Report 132
Small note beforehand: If you've followed me before, you likely know that I write a weekly ATmosphere Report with all the news about Bluesky and the ATmosphere every week, over at connectedplaces.online. These weeks I'm switching it up a little, by splitting the report up into smaller parts and publishing them separately. The entire ATmosphere Report will still be published (and emailed) regularly as well, and this posts will be made more accessible on my own website soon.
Recent updates in the ATmosphere - ATmosphere Report #132
Small note beforehand: If you've followed me before, you likely know that I write a weekly ATmosphere Report with all the news about Bluesky and the ATmosphere every week, over at connectedplaces.online. These weeks I'm switching it up a little, by splitting the report up into smaller parts and publishing them separately. The entire ATmosphere Report will still be published (and emailed) at the end of the week as well.
This week's link bag - ATmosphere Report #132
Small note beforehand: If you've followed me before, you likely know that I write a weekly ATmosphere Report with all the news about Bluesky and the ATmosphere every week, over at connectedplaces.online. These weeks I'm switching it up a little, by splitting the report up into smaller parts and publishing them separately. The entire Bluesky Report will still be published (and emailed) at the end of the week as well.
Substack and the risk of disruption
Calls for people to get off Substack pop up regularly on the open social web. People argue against writers using Substack predominantly based on three reasons:
Bounce, bridging and language
Here's a sentence for you:
Some thoughts on Bsky, age verification and mississippi law
regulation of the open social web is accelerating
The Argument on staying on X
sure lets write about this