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jack<p>Follow me on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Flashes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Flashes</span></a> app 👇</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atproto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atproto</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bluesky</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/decentralised" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decentralised</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/appstore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>appstore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <br><a href="https://app.flashes.blue/profile/j4ck.xyz" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">app.flashes.blue/profile/j4ck.</span><span class="invisible">xyz</span></a></p>
Connected Places<p>This week's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bluesky</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atproto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atproto</span></a> news:</p><p>- 38M accounts on Bluesky, with renewed discourse on a slowdown of the growth rate<br>- The Verge's Nilay Patel talks about how SB Nation's new social feed for sports will integrate with bluesky in the future</p><p><a href="https://connectedplaces.online/reports/bluesky-report-128/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">connectedplaces.online/reports</span><span class="invisible">/bluesky-report-128/</span></a></p>
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:<p>I uploaded the fifth FediCon 2025 video:</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/@fedicon/114983843422856184" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techhub.social/@fedicon/114983</span><span class="invisible">843422856184</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FediCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FediCon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FediCon2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FediCon2025</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bluesky</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ATProtocol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ATProtocol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ATProto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ATProto</span></a></p>
Tom Casavant<p>There were rumors last year that the Verge was moving to Wordpress specifically so they could integrate directly w/ the Fediverse and AtProto. So if that's true I imagine yesterday's changes have a similar goal in mind (both are owned by Vox media)</p><p>context: <a href="https://www.sbnation.com/sb-nation-news/24480968/the-new-sb-nation-is-faster-and-built-for-community" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sbnation.com/sb-nation-news/24</span><span class="invisible">480968/the-new-sb-nation-is-faster-and-built-for-community</span></a></p>
Flipboard<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mmasnick" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mmasnick</span></a></span>'s latest piece for <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://web.brid.gy/r/https://techdirt.com/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>techdirt.com</span></a></span> is an absolute must-read if you're interested in democracy, technology, and the possibility of a better future. </p><p>"The solution isn’t building better platforms — it’s making platforms an obsolete concept. Platforms concentrate power; protocols distribute it. Platforms extract value from users; protocols enable users to create value for themselves. Most importantly: platforms can be captured by bad actors, but protocols resist capture by design."</p><p><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/05/take-back-our-digital-infrastructure-to-save-democracy/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">techdirt.com/2025/08/05/take-b</span><span class="invisible">ack-our-digital-infrastructure-to-save-democracy/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/PeopleNotPlatforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeopleNotPlatforms</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bluesky</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ATProto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ATProto</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/OpenSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSocial</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/OpenSocialWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSocialWeb</span></a></p>
Sean Tilley<p>There’s even an <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.wedistribute.org/tag/atproto" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ATproto</a> competitor to ForgeFed / Forgejo: <a href="https://tangled.sh/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://tangled.sh/</a></p><p>Interestingly, it has a different follow graph than what Bluesky offers.</p><p><a href="https://tangled.sh/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://tangled.sh/</a></p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://social.wedistribute.org/tag/fedicon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FediCon</a></p>
Boris Mann<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@purpleidea" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>purpleidea</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://j12t.social/@j12t" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>j12t</span></a></span> there are many “yes ands”</p><p>Higher quality software comes from? Funding, business models, serving users that pay for things. </p><p>Lots of good nuance from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://j12t.social/@j12t" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>j12t</span></a></span> in his talk about not just “social media”</p><p>I have some of these themes in my talk this afternoon about all the not-microblogging apps on <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/ATProto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ATProto</span></a></p>
Boris Mann<p>Questions to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@quillmatiq" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>quillmatiq</span></a></span> about other apps and ecosystems and ends up mentioning Sprk (open video platform, longer than what Bsky supports), Roomy (Discord chat alternative), and Germ (e2ee messaging) on the <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/ATProto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ATProto</span></a> side</p>
Boris Mann<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@quillmatiq" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>quillmatiq</span></a></span> shows some power tools, including Airport, the <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/ATProto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ATProto</span></a> account migrator</p><p><a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/FediCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FediCon</span></a></p>
🧿🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸<p>I recently learned about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IPDB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IPDB</span></a>; a distributed database used by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ATProto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ATProto</span></a>. I wonder if you could build an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> implementation that uses <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IPFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IPFS</span></a> for content distribution, and IPDB for distributing the activity data.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OrbitDB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OrbitDB</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigchainDB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigchainDB</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DID</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CRDT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CRDT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IPNS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IPNS</span></a></p>
Connected Places<p>this week's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bluesky</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atproto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atproto</span></a> news:</p><p>- age verification in the UK is here due to OSA, including workarounds<br>- e2ee messaging with your atproto account with Germ DM<br>- lots about pds migration tools this week</p><p><a href="https://connectedplaces.online/reports/bluesky-report-127/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">connectedplaces.online/reports</span><span class="invisible">/bluesky-report-127/</span></a></p>
Tijs 🦑<p>I kinda hate that my only two options for getting mention notifications from <a href="https://social.lol/tags/atproto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atproto</span></a> seem to be plugging into the firehose or polling <a href="https://bsky.social" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bsky.social</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> every minute. Anybody know about a simple pubsub type thing for listening to mentions for a single handle/did?</p>
Bolet :neobread_eyes:<p>Seeking help for bluesky integration docs, any article, docs or blog post would be appreciated.</p> <p>I'm doing some research now for bluesky auth<br> to make the enable bluesky process on wafrn a bit better<br> do you know any stuff i can read on app passwords and/or inter-service communications ?</p> <p>basically I want to make the wafrn backend make authenticated calls to our own pds without having to use our users passwords, so I'm seeking for alternative methods of authentication</p><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://app.wafrn.net/dashboard/search/bluesky%20pds" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bluesky-pds</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://app.wafrn.net/dashboard/search/bluesky%20dev" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bluesky-dev</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://app.wafrn.net/dashboard/search/atproto" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#atproto</a>
Mai :v_trans:<p>Tinkered around with the bsky / at protocol around a few days ago (more like a week lol), in an attempt to create an fully decentral account / identity where no parts are owned by an copoeration. And to my surprires you can actually not only host the account data yourself (called a PDS) but also the whole identity itself!</p><p>Wrote a (rather long) blog post about the journey and how to achieve it; check it out if those things interest you: <a href="https://blog.lapyst.dev/posts/14-how-to-create-a-completly-independent-bluesky-atproto-account" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.lapyst.dev/posts/14-how-t</span><span class="invisible">o-create-a-completly-independent-bluesky-atproto-account</span></a></p><p><a href="https://soc.saiyajin.space/tags/bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bluesky</span></a> <a href="https://soc.saiyajin.space/tags/atproto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atproto</span></a> <a href="https://soc.saiyajin.space/tags/hosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hosting</span></a> <a href="https://soc.saiyajin.space/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosted</span></a> <a href="https://soc.saiyajin.space/tags/decentral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decentral</span></a> <a href="https://soc.saiyajin.space/tags/decentralized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decentralized</span></a> <a href="https://soc.saiyajin.space/tags/federation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>federation</span></a></p>
🏳️‍🌈🤘 Blain SmithNow that the release has dropped I can say that it is pretty cool that we (<span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.coop/users/limeleaf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@limeleaf@social.coop</a></span>) got to partner with <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.social/users/Flipboard" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Flipboard@flipboard.social</a></span> for their <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.social/users/surf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@surf@flipboard.social</a></span> announcement promoting their custom feeds on <a href="https://blueskydirectory.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://blueskydirectory.com</a><br><br><a href="https://about.flipboard.com/press/now-discover-surf-custom-feeds-on-bluesky-directory/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://about.flipboard.com/press/now-discover-surf-custom-feeds-on-bluesky-directory/</a><br><br>If you also use Bluesky, check out <a href="https://surf.social" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://surf.social</a> and use the code in the announcement post to sign up.<br><br><a href="https://snac.rblgk.sh?t=bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bluesky</a> <a href="https://snac.rblgk.sh?t=atproto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ATProto</a> <a href="https://snac.rblgk.sh?t=flipboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Flipboard</a> <a href="https://snac.rblgk.sh?t=news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://snac.rblgk.sh?t=decentralized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Decentralized</a><br>
🧿🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://c.im/@DimlyLitCorners" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>DimlyLitCorners</span></a></span> it seems that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ATProto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ATProto</span></a> has adopted CIDs and maybe some other pieces of IPFS so maybe piecemeal adoption will get us to standardization one day!</p><p>In the mean time, there's a P2P IPFS implementation that currently works in browsers using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ServiceWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ServiceWorkers</span></a>! Each individual website would need to include this for it to work, but it's a start! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtIJXRgxjVA" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=qtIJXRgxjVA</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Davide Eynard (+mala)<p>New blog post: “Building a Custom Feed on ATProto Part 2: Text-to-Feed with BYOTA and Embedding Similarity”</p><p><a href="https://aittalam.github.io/posts/2025-07-20-text-to-feed-with-byota/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aittalam.github.io/posts/2025-</span><span class="invisible">07-20-text-to-feed-with-byota/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/BYOTA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BYOTA</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/algorithms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>algorithms</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/atproto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atproto</span></a></p>
Connected Places<p>Bluesky Report #125 - this weeks <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bluesky</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atproto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atproto</span></a> news:</p><p>- Bluesky adds age verification system to comply with new UK law<br>- Eurosky is a new initiative from to build a commons content moderation system in the EU<br>- Bluesky aims to be the place for US soccer conversations</p><p><a href="https://connectedplaces.online/reports/bluesky-report-125/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">connectedplaces.online/reports</span><span class="invisible">/bluesky-report-125/</span></a></p>
Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋<p>I've updated my template project of a <a href="https://martianbase.net/tags/Bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bluesky</span></a> feed service in <a href="https://martianbase.net/tags/RubyLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RubyLang</span></a>, first time since 2023 😅</p><p>No big changes, but I brought it up to date with what I have in my (private) live project, updated it to latest gem versions, and added several new sections in the readme about how feeds work &amp; how the app is built. <a href="https://martianbase.net/tags/atproto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atproto</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://github.com/mackuba/bluesky-feeds-rb" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mackuba/bluesky-fee</span><span class="invisible">ds-rb</span></a></p>
Ecologia Digital<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.alquimidia.org/@skarnio" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>skarnio</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@nlpretto" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nlpretto</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@vektra" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>vektra</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ayrtonfreeman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ayrtonfreeman</span></a></span> <br>Quem me deu o toque sobre esta possibilidade de conexão do <a href="https://mato.social/tags/PIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PIX</span></a> no nível do protocolo foi o <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@robin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>robin</span></a></span>, que integra o <a href="https://mato.social/tags/FreeOurFeeds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeOurFeeds</span></a>. Por isso, acho que seria estratégico que alguém do governo brasileiro acompanhasse as discussões técnicas neste nível. Por vários motivos, o <a href="https://mato.social/tags/ATproto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ATproto</span></a> estaria mais próximo deste "experimento estratégico". Posso estar enganado…</p>