
Bluesky
ATmosphere Report - #111
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber hints some more at Bluesky PBC's plans for monetisation, on ATProto's ethos, and more.
Fediverse
A new security fund for the fediverse, and the Lemmy developers held an AMA.
Bluesky
Video app Skylight is available for public release, with funding from Mark Cuban and 55k users in the first 24 hours. Spark is building their own entire video platform on ATProto, and just launched in beta.
Fediverse
A vulnerability in Pixelfed caused private posts from other platforms to leak, a post-mortem on the CSAM scanner from IFTAS, and Fediforum has been cancelled.
Bluesky
The ATmosphereConf was last weekend, independent relays are starting to appear, and more.
Fediverse
An essay on user preferences, and how the fediverse's interconnected network of communities can play into that, as well as some other news.
Bluesky
Northsky is a new cooperative that is building their own space for the trans and queer community on Bluesky/ATProto, multiple apps are starting to work towards financial sustainability, and more.
Fediverse
Newsletter publisher Ghost is now connecting to the fediverse in public beta, updates about the bridge that connects the fediverse with Bluesky, and more.
Bluesky
Bluesky PBC shares their protocol roadmap, and a way to indicate user preference to how external parties can handle their data. Tangled is a newly launched Git collaboration platform built on ATProto, and much more news.
Fediverse
Pixelfed raises 138k Canadian dollars for their project, and a new way to connect researchers to the fediverse with an upcoming ORCID bridge.
Thoughts, stories and ideas.
Frequency is a new project for a decentralised relay using a blockchain. The Bluesky clients ecosystem keeps developing.
IFTAS shutting down most of its services following a lack of funding. Fediverse tumblr-like platform Wafrn has a native Bluesky integration.
ChatGPT released a new mode, called Deep Research. Tech writer Casey Newton asked Deep Research to write a report about the fediverse. But how good is the quality of the report that ChatGPT puts out? Fediverse Report does some deep research on Deep Research's fediverse report.
Welcome to the bi-weekly tech-focused update on everything that is happening on Bluesky and the wider ATmosphere. The theme continues to be: "can ATProto scale down"? Next week will be focused again on Bluesky and it's surrounding ecosystem of media apps. The News Constellation is a
A variety of smaller news updates this week.
Social platforms are not, and can not, be neutral in a context of authoritarianism, and Bluesky cannot avoid this dynamic either. On a lighter note, many experiments with building image and video clients for Bluesky are ongoing, more insight in how ATProto can scale down, and more.
Mastodon has announced it will add quote posts to the platform, and some other news.
A new P2P group chat with Roomy, Microcosm makes ATProto even more modular, other new tools and much more!
This week I'm zooming in on the culture of the fediverse, prompted by the Superbowl halftime show. IFTAS announces they'll run out of funding soon, indicating the challenges with funding Trust & Safety in the network.
The ongoing coup in America shifts the framing of 'credible exit' on ATProto. More video and images apps for Bluesky.
Large interest for the fediverse at FOSDEM, more conversations about data usage and consent, and multi-platform client Openvibe gets 800k in funding.
People are experimenting with a wide variety of new apps on ATProto, ranging from P2P group chats to live streaming to TikTok clones.