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A New Social @anew.social · 6h

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!

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 8h

In this episode, Nate is joined by Meredith Angwin for an in-depth overview of the U.S. electrical grid system, its history, and the need for accountability in energy governance.

www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/196-...

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 18h

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...

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 1d

I completely overhauled and updated my nitty-gritty manual Bluesky migration guide. It should now be a much more pleasant read.

Notes on migrating a Bluesky account | fry69

So you want to migrate... If you have an account on a Bluesky mushroom PDS (\<mushroom>.\*.bsky.network) and want to migrate to another PDS (e.g. your own), this currently can be a daunting task. As ...

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Kjetil Kjernsmo @kjetil.kjernsmo.net · 1d

I argue that @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social 's laser-focus on phones and age limits have had a very detrimental impact on the debate we really need to have, the need to completely replace the platforms. I have summarized my thoughts on my blog: kjetil.kjernsmo.net/2025/09/jona...

A castle where the weapons are pointing inwards.

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 1d

There's no reason that ActivityPub can't have a more PDS-like architecture, where identity & data are separated from applications, arguably that's what the C2S part of the spec was about.

But AT Protocol having amazing SDKs also enabled people to build and try new things quicker

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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

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AltStore @altstore.io · 1d

📣 We have some exciting news — AltStore is officially joining the open social web!

We’re also:
💰 Donating $500,000 to various Fediverse-related projects
🌏 Launching PAL in several more countries this year
👥 Expanding the team!

For more info, check out our blog post: rileytestut.com/blog/2025/10...

Evolving AltStore PAL

In April of last year, we launched AltStore PAL in the European Union as one of the first official alternative app marketplaces on iOS thanks to the Digital Markets Act. We launched with just 2 apps —...

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Subvert @subvert.fm · 2d

Last month we traveled to Spain's Basque region to visit Mondragon, the world's largest worker cooperative.

92 co-ops. 70,000 workers. €11 billion in revenue. Spain's 7th-largest company.

All collectively owned.

Here are 5 lessons for building a "Mondragon of Music"

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 2d

> Basically all atproto apps?

No, just the directly bsky-derived ones.

The way the low-level bans on Bluesky effectively negate the whole premise of ‘stackable moderation’ is terrible and should be corrected for.

But standalone atproto apps, afaik, would be unaffected by this ban.., right?

ıllıllı FREE ŁINK ıllıllı @rvbdrm.com · 2d

So… Łink’s account is permabanned from Bluesky’s appview, but also gets banned from:

WhiteWind
Skylight
Bluescreen
Flashes

Basically all ATproto apps/projects?

WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF THIS PROJECT THEN?

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Iroh @iroh.computer · 9d

Sup frens I have a DHT protocol now: www.iroh.computer/blog/lets-wr...

A DHT for iroh - Part 1, The Protocol

Let's write a DHT for iroh

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 2d

for atproto devs and protocol watchers, I published an overview of the network moderation architecture.

it tries to cover all the mod actions possible for each service type. this design has been around a while, but not well documented.

this doc is not very polished, but could clarify some details

AT Moderation Architecture | bryan newbold

The AT network is becoming more heterogeneous in practice, with independent PDS hosts, apps, and alternative bsky AppViews establishing themselves. This means that more complex inter-service moderatio...

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Nick Gerakines @ngerakines.me · 2d

Check out at://work, a job board built on #ATProtocol. It's not just another platform, it's professional networking where you actually own your data. Sign in with your ATProtocol handle and your profile lives on your PDS. 🧵

Nick Gerakines @ngerakines.me · 2d

we can just do things

Introducing at://work: A Job Board That Puts You in Control - Nick's Blog

at://work is a modern job board built on ATProtocol where your profile and job listings are stored on your own Personal Data Server, giving you true ownership of your professional data. As a full AppV...

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Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 3d

The PDS paradigm won't move your data from the cloud to your personal computer. Most people will still rely on an institutional cloud service, but instead of data-banking with a maligned corporation most people’s data can be entrusted to the equivalent of member-owned credit unions for data storage.

As the economy was transformed by industrialization and then by consumer banking, powerful
new players such as Standard Oil, J.P. Morgan, and a handful of others threatened the freedom
of citizens. In order to provide a counterweight to these new powers, citizens joined together to
form trade unions and cooperative banking institutions, which were federally chartered to
represent their members’ interests. These citizen organizations helped balance the economic
and social power between large and small players and between employers and worker.
The same collective organization is required to move from an individualized asset-based
understanding of data control to a collective system based on rights and accountability, with
legal standards upheld by a new class of representatives who act as fiduciaries for their
members. In the U.S. almost 100 million people are members of credit unions, not-for-profit
institutions owned by their members, and already chartered to securely manage their
members’ digital data and to represent them in a wide variety of financial transactions,
including insurance, investments, and benefits. The question then is, could we apply the same
push for citizen power to the area of data rights in the ever-growing digital economy?

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 3d

The notion of a 'PDS' quickly comes off as something very technical and nerdy, but really the only obscure word here is the Server, which in this context (of atproto) is interchangeable with Storage.

Even regular internet users have some mental model of what personalized data storage entails.

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 3d

and Nate did a heartening frankly musing about the Dark Triad’s opposite force, the Light Triad: www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-orig...

The Light Triad - The Great Simplification

Deception and self-interest seem to be increasingly prevalent in our modern cultural reality.

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 3d

Also comes up in this discussion: www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/126-...

Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Moving from Naive to Authentic Progress: A Vision for Betterment” - The Great Simplification

In this episode, Nate welcomes back Daniel Schmachtenberger to unpack a new paper

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 3d

True, and it’s a useful empathy exercise.

But let’s not forget that today’s pet rocks, while not sentient, are very much acting in and upon our world, eating/regurgitating our homework, shitting in our (virtual) homes & raising all our maintenance bills, yet we didn’t all choose to keep these pets.

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 3d

it’s like when the techno-optimism was taken away from them they just became unmoored and lost in a sea of hopelessness

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 3d

Trending on HN, yay!

..but wow the 🍊 hacker crowd is gloomy these days. This is explicitly a post about solutions and many of these commenters are still throwing their hands up saying ‘the corpos own everything, it’s too late!’

Guess I’ll take this over neoliberal hubris but gosh, lighten up boys.

Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 3d

The web can be made personal again.

blog.muni.town/personal-dat...

Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come

Data Ownership as a conversation changes when data resides primarily with people-governed institutions rather than corporations.

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 3d

The web can be made personal again.

blog.muni.town/personal-dat...

Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come

Data Ownership as a conversation changes when data resides primarily with people-governed institutions rather than corporations.

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Why @why.bsky.team · 4d

A little proof of concept I've been working on, it's a version of Bluesky that you can run locally, even on your laptop, that pulls just the data you care about from the firehose, indexes it, and provides you an interface to view and interact with posts.

GitHub - whyrusleeping/konbini

Contribute to whyrusleeping/konbini development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Exentio Kawasaki 🎐🌸✒️ @exentio.sexy · 4d

I think the big chunk missing right now to fully use atproto without bsky is for independent appviews to stop adopting their bans, and to achieve real full independence we need lighter appviews. The relays are kinda optional, by the way

You may want to check this out

blog.muni.town/atproto-isnt...

ATProto Isn't What You Think

This post takes a look at ATProto from a different angle, and explores the value of some possibly less-noticed pieces of it.

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