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Boris @bmann.ca · 2h

Open Source licensing is one thing to point at - do it yourself!

Or, pool funds to pay you or others to help.

As an ecosystem, I see Slices as being of HUGE value.

The EuroSky hosting an instance and you hosting a shared instance seems like a good start.

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Boris @bmann.ca · 2h

Keeping the lights on means paying you + infra. Aiming for e.g. $250KUSD per year as the base case is likely a good goal -- the rest of it is how to get there.

I love the ecosystem thinking, but people are in low trust environments right now, and are afraid of getting rug pulled.

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Boris @bmann.ca · 7h

I'm lucky to be at @z-space.ca where I am inspired by game devs, designers, & players who hang out here and I find out about super cool game experiences.

I'm barely controller literate, when @milanks.com had me try it I just fell on my face, but the concept and design of Baby Steps is very cool.

Milan @milanks.com · 10h

suffice to say, I enjoyed Baby Steps

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Milan @milanks.com · 10h

suffice to say, I enjoyed Baby Steps

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A New Social @anew.social · 11h

Today, we announced our next Bounce Beta that lets you migrate your Mastodon profile into any existing ATProto account, whether you're on Bluesky or any other PDS provider!

We'll be going live with Bounce Beta 2 on October 20th.

Read more here:

Bounce from Mastodon to Bluesky

With our next Bounce Beta, you will be able to Bounce your Mastodon account to Bluesky!

blog.anew.social

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Boris @bmann.ca · 9h

I've never used it myself, but Thinkific is specifically a course builder / course sales www.thinkific.com

(and local to Vancouver so I know some of the folks)

Home

Thinkific is the leading learning platform for building and selling courses, communities, memberships, digital products, and more

www.thinkific.com

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Nick Gerakines @ngerakines.me · 9h

How does one sell video (not adult content) on the internet these days? With the ATProtocol OAuth Masterclass wrapped up, I'm thinking about making a non-interactive series of videos (one for each part). Preferably with Stripe integration but flexible. #LazyWeb

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Boris @bmann.ca · 22h

Half a foot of legal is my new band name.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 22h

What a wild year to be trying to think about networks and what they do to our brains. Thank you for coming along with me.

www.wrecka.ge/a-year-into-...

A year into the wreckage and salvage

It’s coming up on been a year, somehow, since I started this website/micro-studio/space to think in. What a wild choice that was, setting out in October of 2024, eyes on the horizon! We’d hoped things...

www.wrecka.ge

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Boris @bmann.ca · 23h

I tried to make this happen as part of some venue / delivery stuff but it didn’t work out.

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Boris @bmann.ca · 23h

Reporting to the existing Head of Legal. Who exists.

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Boris @bmann.ca · 23h

@awarm.space was in Seattle so saw your talk. Maybe asked I question even?

Also even though @kissane.myatproto.social reversed the dark forest definitions in this article I agree with her calls for big social / big public needs to remain

www.wrecka.ge/against-the-...

Against the dark forest

The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.

www.wrecka.ge

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 4d

Before creating For You I actually built a link-focused personalized feed Links For You.

It uses the same algorithm but:
- it only looks at posts with links
- it groups all posts with the same link to avoid showing different posts that have the same link

Feedback welcome!

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Boris @bmann.ca · 1d

The @frontpage.fyi lexicon would be good if you want long comments!

And yeah, other than using “Bluesky posts”, letting people login to your blog and comment long posts would be a thing.

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Boris @bmann.ca · 1d

Yes, lots. Do a search for "bluesky comments on a blog" and you'll find lots of examples.

Here's one by @natalie.sh natalie.sh/posts/bluesk...

For moderation, you moderate the thread yourself.

Building Bluesky Comments for My Blog

I hate disqus too much.

natalie.sh

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Anne Bertucio @annebdh.bsky.social · 1d

Want to work on open source full time? The @roost.tools engineering team is starting to hatch! Come build OSS tools making a difference in Trust & Safety.

This is a fully remote role, though some schedule overlap with North American time zones is expected.

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

ROOST.tools hiring Staff Software Engineer in United States | LinkedIn

Posted 8:52:18 PM. About ROOSTROOST is a community effort to build scalable and resilient safety infrastructure for…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

www.linkedin.com

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Tynan Purdy @tynanpurdy.com · 1d

Stay safe out there. The ATProto community has landed in Boston 😳

ATProto Boston @atproto.boston · 1d

Goosetopher-zilla terrorizes the streets of Back Bay. Citizens beware!

A godzilla-sized Goosetopher tramples through the Boston skyline.

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Nick Gerakines @ngerakines.me · 1d

Profile headers and avatars now supported. #ATProtocol

AT://Work.Place @atwork.place · 1d

Express yourself

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 1d

if we made a tool that made AT sync super easy, what would be your hopes and dreams for it? i have a pretty good idea, but wanna hear any feedback before i get too far along

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Ether Diver @etherdiver.bsky.social · 1d

A bluesky-centric Other People's Music this week! Contributions from @dearrainmusic.bsky.social @attndfct.com @dobrobson.bsky.social @sjldmusic.bsky.social cover genres including space-themed Berlin School, classic drum & bass, IDM-infused ambient & experimental

www.etherdiver.com/2025/10/03/o...

OPM: Dreams and Violence – Ether Diver

www.etherdiver.com

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Boris @bmann.ca · 1d

What? ATProto conference, Vancouver, 2026????

We'll have more details soon, you can save the date here on Smoke Signal atprotocol.dev/save-the-date/ and we'll have more announcements very soon.

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Boris @bmann.ca · 1d

If you're in the #Vancouver area and want to get involved with an ATProto conference in March 2026 as a volunteer, local guide, creator, or other role, come join us at @z-space.ca tomorrow Wed Oct 8th luma.com/047gworz

ATProto in Vancouver Locals Experience · Luma

We're organizing the ATProtocol Community Conference - aka ATmosphereConf - in Vancouver, planning for late March 2026. We're looking to gather a local crew of…

luma.com

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 1d

So hype about this partnership with @altstore.io!

@riley.social and @shanegillio.bsky.social truly walk the walk, and we've been fans for a long time, so we were more than excited to build this bridge with them.

With Bridgy Fed, the AltStore is coming to the ATmosphere 🚀

A New Social @anew.social · 1d

We're so excited to be partnering with @altstore.io on their open social web integration, bridging accounts from the Fediverse to the ATmosphere with custom domains so iOS developers can automatically promote their apps across both ecosystems 🌐

Read more about our partnership here:

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A New Social @anew.social · 1d

We're so excited to be partnering with @altstore.io on their open social web integration, bridging accounts from the Fediverse to the ATmosphere with custom domains so iOS developers can automatically promote their apps across both ecosystems 🌐

Read more about our partnership here:

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Streamplace @stream.place · 1d

PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT: Streamplace is building a unified AT Protocol code generation tool! It eats lexicons and creates code in a variety of languages, as well as documentation.

To lead this project, who better than the creator of @pdsls.dev, @juli.ee!

Read more in the announcement post:

Project Announcement: Untitled Streamplace Lexicon Codegen Tool - How Streamplace Works

It's like the Untitled Goose Game of Lexicon codegen tools

blog.stream.place

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