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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 7h

More than anything else: help this guy. bsky.app/profile/davi...

And that inter alia means making it super easy to create custom feeds. Right now that crucial differentiator is not only hidden - it's hard to use when you find it.

David A. Conrad, Ph.D. @davidaconrad.bsky.social · 20h

Except I don't know what that means or how to do it, and I'll never learn - neither will most humanities folks. I'd simply give up all social media first. We need the managed platform, and we need it to be run on our behalf.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 7h

Integrated with the top 5 Class, I hope?

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 7h

Not just creators. People use social for news and professional information. So governments and civil society should crosspost, as a first step towards transitioning themselves and their audiences from other places to here.

I wrote this to help them.

mathewlowry.medium.com/x-strategy-o...

X Strategy or eXit Strategy? A cost-benefit analysis framework

Some considerations to help you clarify your eXit Strategy.

mathewlowry.medium.com

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 7h

100%. For me, the game changer was seeing one account open up multiple apps, all interconnecting seamlessly. whtwnd.com/mathewlowry....

Want to chat? Bluesky.
Want to essay? Whitewind (or Leaflet)
Want to chat about an essay? Your Bluesky post appears as a comment on the essay.

Mind blown.

Thinking transparently in the ATmosphere | Mathew Lowry

This post was extracted from the draft of my December newsletter and published on Whitewind, demonstrating how a new array of apps on the ATmosphere - the ecosystem built with ATProto, Bluesky's proto...

whtwnd.com

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brendan @schlage.town · 21h

atmospheric attractor acceleration assembly:

if you could spend time and/or $ in new ways to accelerate migration from twitter to bluesky (+ github to tangled, substack to leaflet, etc!) what would you try?

experiments, incentives, rhetorical strategies? drop your wildest ideas; let's try em!

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 16h

1) demonstrate how newsrooms can build website-based communities by integrating with ATproto in general and Bluesky custom feeds in particular (for every section, a feed)

2) create interuniversity sci. communities coupled with custom feeds and @cosmik.network's Semble app

bsky.app/profile/math...

Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 1d

Currently looking at how newsrooms could coopete, eg by building a custom feed together which each integrates with their own online community/mu-blog.

Same architecture works for universities, particularly in Europe where they've been collaborating on EU-funded research projects for 40 years.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 20h

I hear you. But if you want things done for you, without paying, then you have to accept whatever shitty experience Musk et al provide to maximise their profits and meet their political goals. Agency takes effort. But I agree it must be made easier.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 21h

Except it's not just a site, there's a protocol. Even if the company disappears, microblogging on atproto Will continue. If you don't like their moderation, you can use another app, roll your own, etc.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI, here is the press release for my study with @drjuliawester.bsky.social - we surveyed over 800 scientists who use social media. They overwhelmingly agree that Twitter is no longer useful or pleasant, and that for all professional online scientist goals, Bluesky is superior.
🧪 #SciComm 🌍

“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant

My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…

www.southernfriedscience.com

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 21h

10th resource to add to my collection.

All the Stuff I Like or Do or Think about Everything tagged science & bluesky, Anytime: myhub.ai/@mathewlowry...

Mathew Lowry's Hub | MyHub.AI

myhub.ai

Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 1d

"I read somewhere that..."

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 1d

Get support on discord!

Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 1d

Morning update from America:

We used to be a serious country.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 1d

Things get really interesting when you realise friends can pool tags and add similes. Combined with autocomplete, we'll build a functional semantic social web.

We'll know we've won when "Join my tag pool" becomes a thing.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 1d

Tag everything, and give users the ability to make and share any collection they like - eg All the Stuff I Like or Do or Think about Everything tagged ux & online architecture, Anytime: myhub.ai/@mathewlowry...

Mathew Lowry's Hub | MyHub.AI

myhub.ai

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 1d

Currently looking at how newsrooms could coopete, eg by building a custom feed together which each integrates with their own online community/mu-blog.

Same architecture works for universities, particularly in Europe where they've been collaborating on EU-funded research projects for 40 years.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 1d

Great idea, and please keep me posted - I'd love to integrate it into my presentation at eurosky.social in Berlin next month.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 1d

This is the way. Has anyone written this up for non-Bostonians, or even non-Americans?

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Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 6d

@boston.gov onboarded all their agencies to Bluesky to engage with Bostonians. Whether it's broken sidewalks, missing signage, or community issues, they want to hear from constituents. With little to no engagement on X, their actual interactions on bsky have increased. Engagement > follower count

Boston Parks Department @parks.boston.gov · 6d

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Register today for free in-person fitness classes at a park near you: boston.gov/fitness

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 2d

I guess ATproto was delivered to be compatible with the world as it is, which is where digital media is about "me, me, me!".

But it could just as easily be about "us, us, us!".

Too many blogs, not enough wikis.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 2d

You need not have bothered saying "I'm almost always right, but go ahead and show me wrong", as you'd already convincingly demonstrated that you're this guy and thus a total waste of time.

Cartoon of a rainy guy saying "hey man you need to prove that your view is valid to me based on my own criteria and working within an arbitrary frame that I set up that a priori rules out your viewpoint hahah can't do it huh well looks like i win again"

Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 2d

Yes

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 2d

I have this theory that some people hallucinate a lot IRL, and so are right at home using AI because what is real anyway amirite?

For example, this totally unhinged thread:

Joey @joeyvazquez.bsky.social · 2d

"slopbrained people"

The anti-AI community really does so easily embrace bigotry.

We see it with their ableist attacks on neurodivergent and disabled people using AI assistive tools.

Same with humanizing slurs against bots - which are really circuitous, socially-safe way of othering AI users.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.bsky.social · 2d

Just keeping this for later. Hope you too will find it useful.

Pete Bog @fullgroanman.bsky.social · 2d

King Pisslord of Shit Mountain says "hey man you need to prove that your view is valid to based on my own criteria and working within an arbitrary frame that I set up that a priori rules out your viewpoint hahah can't do it huh well looks like I win again"

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

Everything about this is bonkers. The arrest, the charge, the possible sentence, the **$2 million bail.**

reason.com/2025/10/10/t...

Tennessee man arrested, gets $2 million bond for posting Facebook meme

Larry Bushart posted a meme on a local Facebook page about Charlie Kirk. He now faces years in prison.

reason.com

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