Joe Basser
@joebasser.com
The revolution will be live-streamed.
Building AT Protocol Creator Wonderland @sprk.so
I'm on Germ DM 🔑
https://ger.mx/A7WoQkLlkW08aZkmoTZ6uShG1AJAoucVsv8iNNnc81l3#did:plc:qed67d2sst5xqsbuveiv7fjp
Building AT Protocol Creator Wonderland @sprk.so
I'm on Germ DM 🔑
https://ger.mx/A7WoQkLlkW08aZkmoTZ6uShG1AJAoucVsv8iNNnc81l3#did:plc:qed67d2sst5xqsbuveiv7fjp
I’d like to challenge Zuck to an MMA bout.
December 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I’d like to challenge Zuck to an MMA bout.
It’s happening…
TikTok will now be owned by the Ellisons, Jared Kushner's firm, and Abu Dhabi's state investment fund.
TikTok U.S. Sale to Close Next Month: Oracle and Silver Lake Confirmed in Buyer Consortium
Abu Dhabi's state investment fund will also be a managing investor.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
It’s happening…
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What would it look like to move on from Meta?
Comedian Maddy Kelly explains that leaving Instagram won’t be easy, but just like when younger people left Facebook, it IS possible.
(hint: read the comments for real-life examples of people who made the switch!)
youtube.com/shorts/jzvuC...
Comedian Maddy Kelly explains that leaving Instagram won’t be easy, but just like when younger people left Facebook, it IS possible.
(hint: read the comments for real-life examples of people who made the switch!)
youtube.com/shorts/jzvuC...
December 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
What would it look like to move on from Meta?
Comedian Maddy Kelly explains that leaving Instagram won’t be easy, but just like when younger people left Facebook, it IS possible.
(hint: read the comments for real-life examples of people who made the switch!)
youtube.com/shorts/jzvuC...
Comedian Maddy Kelly explains that leaving Instagram won’t be easy, but just like when younger people left Facebook, it IS possible.
(hint: read the comments for real-life examples of people who made the switch!)
youtube.com/shorts/jzvuC...
Reposted by Joe Basser
👋 Hello, Bluesky! We're ATProtoFans, a new way to support creators you love.
How it works: you make a one-time payment, and both you and the creator get a permanent, verifiable record stored in your ATProtocol accounts.
atprotofans.com
How it works: you make a one-time payment, and both you and the creator get a permanent, verifiable record stored in your ATProtocol accounts.
atprotofans.com
ATProtoFans - Support Your Favorite Creators
Decentralized supporter attestation service for the ATProtocol ecosystem. Support creators with cryptographically verifiable relationships.
atprotofans.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
👋 Hello, Bluesky! We're ATProtoFans, a new way to support creators you love.
How it works: you make a one-time payment, and both you and the creator get a permanent, verifiable record stored in your ATProtocol accounts.
atprotofans.com
How it works: you make a one-time payment, and both you and the creator get a permanent, verifiable record stored in your ATProtocol accounts.
atprotofans.com
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#atproto devs: if you're interested in making or playing around with spark feeds, dm me for access to spark. i'd also love feedback on the template.
Want to make a custom feed for Spark?
This template starts as a simple feed but has ~everything you need to make a personalized feed.
🔐 Set needsAuth=true to turn on authentication for a feed.
❤️ Ingest likes, follows & reposts by uncommenting a few lines. The ingesters & DB models are included.
This template starts as a simple feed but has ~everything you need to make a personalized feed.
🔐 Set needsAuth=true to turn on authentication for a feed.
❤️ Ingest likes, follows & reposts by uncommenting a few lines. The ingesters & DB models are included.
GitHub - sprksocial/feed-gen
Contribute to sprksocial/feed-gen development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
#atproto devs: if you're interested in making or playing around with spark feeds, dm me for access to spark. i'd also love feedback on the template.
OH WE COOKIN’
We're not slowing down, 0.4.0 is out now!
📺 Custom feeds - Use feeds made by anyone! Currently supports feeds made for Spark, will roll out for Bluesky video feeds soon.
💿 Sounds - Reuse sounds from other Spark videos right from the Spark in-app video editor! Coming to the video recorder soon.
📺 Custom feeds - Use feeds made by anyone! Currently supports feeds made for Spark, will roll out for Bluesky video feeds soon.
💿 Sounds - Reuse sounds from other Spark videos right from the Spark in-app video editor! Coming to the video recorder soon.
December 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
OH WE COOKIN’
Heading home for the holidays, where my Aussie ATproto devs at?? 🦘🦘🦘
December 7, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Heading home for the holidays, where my Aussie ATproto devs at?? 🦘🦘🦘
Hush now Ted Sarandos 🤫
December 7, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Hush now Ted Sarandos 🤫
Bruh
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Bruh
Poasters of the world, unite! ProleteriAT comrade @psingletary.com
Atmospherians came to me in a dream Boris. Long live the Atmosphere 🖖
December 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Poasters of the world, unite! ProleteriAT comrade @psingletary.com
Tickets copped! See you there Atmospherians 🫡
Early bird tickets are now on sale for #ATmosphereConf, plus lots more details on early confirmed speakers, side events, and conference hotel
Early Bird Tickets and Speaker Announcement
Buy your tickets now to join us in Vancouver, March 2026
news.atmosphereconf.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Tickets copped! See you there Atmospherians 🫡
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The new @sprk.so TestFlight release is soo much nicer than the one before 👀
there's also an entire photo and video editor built straight into the post process 🔥
there's also an entire photo and video editor built straight into the post process 🔥
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The new @sprk.so TestFlight release is soo much nicer than the one before 👀
there's also an entire photo and video editor built straight into the post process 🔥
there's also an entire photo and video editor built straight into the post process 🔥
Signupsignupsignup
We're going to be really speeding up adding testers from the waitlist as we work towards an open beta. If you're already on the list, make sure you're checking your spam folder, and if not, sign up at sprk.so!
Spark - Take back your timeline
Social media is addictive and manipulative. It's time for social that puts the user in control.
sprk.so
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Signupsignupsignup
A lottt of work behind the scenes on this. More to come…
Alright party people, 0.3.0 is finally out! The app's gone through a full makeover, we have a new photo and video editor, and we've changed our lexicon (with a way to convert legacy posts in settings)! This sets the stage for two big features we are currently finishing: sounds/music and feeds.
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
A lottt of work behind the scenes on this. More to come…
Reposted by Joe Basser
Great post from @joebasser.com on how atproto can fix broken models of social media (lock-in; user-hostile incentive structures) with greater, choice, ownership, interoperability…
An ecosystem sustained by both *niches + networks* might be a good way to summarize what we're building here!
An ecosystem sustained by both *niches + networks* might be a good way to summarize what we're building here!
Social Media is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It. - Interlinked
Breaking down the AT Protocol for normies.
blog.joebasser.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Great post from @joebasser.com on how atproto can fix broken models of social media (lock-in; user-hostile incentive structures) with greater, choice, ownership, interoperability…
An ecosystem sustained by both *niches + networks* might be a good way to summarize what we're building here!
An ecosystem sustained by both *niches + networks* might be a good way to summarize what we're building here!
Reposted by Joe Basser
> Mark Andreessen crashing out posting Sydney Sweeney memes at the Pope
> Alex Carp bitching at Michael Burry shorting because Palantir sells "ontology"
> Sam Altman asking for a government bailout
> Elon Musk celebrating his 1 trillion payout by making Grok say "I love you"
Calling the top
> Alex Carp bitching at Michael Burry shorting because Palantir sells "ontology"
> Sam Altman asking for a government bailout
> Elon Musk celebrating his 1 trillion payout by making Grok say "I love you"
Calling the top
November 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
> Mark Andreessen crashing out posting Sydney Sweeney memes at the Pope
> Alex Carp bitching at Michael Burry shorting because Palantir sells "ontology"
> Sam Altman asking for a government bailout
> Elon Musk celebrating his 1 trillion payout by making Grok say "I love you"
Calling the top
> Alex Carp bitching at Michael Burry shorting because Palantir sells "ontology"
> Sam Altman asking for a government bailout
> Elon Musk celebrating his 1 trillion payout by making Grok say "I love you"
Calling the top
There are so many great ATProto articles out there, but I wanted to write one that strips things back for the non-tech crowd. This one’s for my friends back home, my mum, and anyone else who just wants to know why I’m building on this weird, wonderful protocol.
Social Media is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It.
Breaking down the AT Protocol for normies.
blog.joebasser.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
There are so many great ATProto articles out there, but I wanted to write one that strips things back for the non-tech crowd. This one’s for my friends back home, my mum, and anyone else who just wants to know why I’m building on this weird, wonderful protocol.
Competition Competition Competition.
About The Other Night... - Graze Newsletter
How Graze is defining the next era of a decentralized, open social attention economy.
graze.leaflet.pub
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Competition Competition Competition.
Something very wrong here…
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Something very wrong here…
So great meeting more of the NYC ATProto community tonight. Thank you @schlage.town for organising!
October 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
So great meeting more of the NYC ATProto community tonight. Thank you @schlage.town for organising!
Any simple ATProto voting/poll apps?
October 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Any simple ATProto voting/poll apps?
I 🫶 @roost.tools
Excited to announce here at the @parispeaceforum.bsky.social that, after months of joint technical work together, OpenAI will open source through ROOST one of its main internal models that handles detection and moderation. This will allow anyone or any company to use, test, and study the model.
October 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I 🫶 @roost.tools
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The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?