#atproto — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #atproto, aggregated by home.social.
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Want an update on the Weekend at Bernie’s clown show that is W Social? No? Me neither, but here we are…
So before we start, let’s recount the whole dystopian raison d’être of these Davosian clowns: to be a EU®opean “alternative to X” that – cue the 1984 theme tune – verifies your identity to ensure that only “real people” are on it (real is what your government says it is).
Now, let’s fast forward to last week, when TikTok set up an account on W Social.
That’s nice, isn’t it? One surveillance capitalist lending their support to another? Kumbaya and all that. The only problem? (spoiler alert), it wasn’t TikTok. (Shocking, I know.)
The account, Identity Verified™ by EU X – sorry, W Social, was a spam account and immediately labelled as such by BlueSky moderators. (Don’t you love a “decentralised” system where a post on an EU server, accessed from another EU server, is moderated by our benevolent Big Brother in Trumpland, by the way? I know it just warms the cockles of my heart. So much sovereignty! But I digress…)
So @_elena calls them out (someone has to while @EUCommission is busy preparing for their honeymoon after expressing their undying devotion to W Social recently on every social platform¹):
https://mu.social/profile/elenarossini.com/post/3mqob7shxks2t
Anna Zeiter – W CEO, Stanford’s own, and ex-eBay executive (such sovereignty) – replies with this absolute zinger:
> “We are just verifying if some [sic] is a human and at least 18 years old. Users are then free to choose their own user name. This (human) user apparently chose the name TikTok.“ (https://mu.social/profile/anna.wsocial.eu/post/3mqoepm7m2k2z)
Read that as many times as you like until it really sinks in.
These incompetent clowns (dangerous competent clowns but incompetent clowns nevertheless) make people go through a ridiculous 13-step identity verification stage² and then… umm… you get to choose whatever identity you want.
🤡🤡🤡
Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad they’re incompetent. It would be worse if they were competent, given they’re a closed-source venture-capital-funded startup determined to prove your identity.
> “Yes we have a business model, it’s not a philanthropy, we are not a B corp, we actually want to make money.” – Anna Zeiter³
But, what I want to know is this: Why has @EUCommission embraced a proprietary, closed-source, corporate ghost town with 14,300 accounts, 90% of which have not posted even once (in other words, with only 1,259 accounts that have ever posted)⁴ – when there is a thriving non-corporate fediverse with millions of active people on it.
Could it have anything to do with identity verification, surveillance, and control?
And if so, why can’t they even get that right?
Looking forward to seeing how long @EUCommission can drag the corpse of W Social around before people realise it’s dead.
Oh, and how does this make the whole “European alternatives” thing look? Not good. Not because there aren’t excellent European alternatives but because the folks at the commission are either too clueless or too corrupt to recognise and support them.
So, yeah, how’s your Monday going?
¹ e.g., https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116770333053823108, etc.
² https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01KVD55YBYVM3B46ACQTECDMT2
³ https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-untold-story-about-w-social-unconventional-beginnings-strategic-pitches-conflicting-signals/ (from the YouTube video that they since deleted. Nice transparency there, clowns.)
⁴ Run this script in Node 18+ to reproduce the numbers from their PDS yourself: https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/branch/main/wsocial-pds-stats.js Also see https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-broken-ghost-town/ and https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/
#WSocial #EU #sovereignty #socialMedia #socialNetworking #mastodon #fediverse #activityPub #ATProto #startups #EUCommission
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Want an update on the Weekend at Bernie’s clown show that is W Social? No? Me neither, but here we are…
So before we start, let’s recount the whole dystopian raison d’être of these Davosian clowns: to be a EU®opean “alternative to X” that – cue the 1984 theme tune – verifies your identity to ensure that only “real people” are on it (real is what your government says it is).
Now, let’s fast forward to last week, when TikTok set up an account on W Social.
That’s nice, isn’t it? One surveillance capitalist lending their support to another? Kumbaya and all that. The only problem? (spoiler alert), it wasn’t TikTok. (Shocking, I know.)
The account, Identity Verified™ by EU X – sorry, W Social, was a spam account and immediately labelled as such by BlueSky moderators. (Don’t you love a “decentralised” system where a post on an EU server, accessed from another EU server, is moderated by our benevolent Big Brother in Trumpland, by the way? I know it just warms the cockles of my heart. So much sovereignty! But I digress…)
So @_elena calls them out (someone has to while @EUCommission is busy preparing for their honeymoon after expressing their undying devotion to W Social recently on every social platform¹):
https://mu.social/profile/elenarossini.com/post/3mqob7shxks2t
Anna Zeiter – W CEO, Stanford’s own, and ex-eBay executive (such sovereignty) – replies with this absolute zinger:
> “We are just verifying if some [sic] is a human and at least 18 years old. Users are then free to choose their own user name. This (human) user apparently chose the name TikTok.“ (https://mu.social/profile/anna.wsocial.eu/post/3mqoepm7m2k2z)
Read that as many times as you like until it really sinks in.
These incompetent clowns (dangerous competent clowns but incompetent clowns nevertheless) make people go through a ridiculous 13-step identity verification stage² and then… umm… you get to choose whatever identity you want.
🤡🤡🤡
Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad they’re incompetent. It would be worse if they were competent, given they’re a closed-source venture-capital-funded startup determined to prove your identity.
> “Yes we have a business model, it’s not a philanthropy, we are not a B corp, we actually want to make money.” – Anna Zeiter³
But, what I want to know is this: Why has @EUCommission embraced a proprietary, closed-source, corporate ghost town with 14,300 accounts, 90% of which have not posted even once (in other words, with only 1,259 accounts that have ever posted)⁴ – when there is a thriving non-corporate fediverse with millions of active people on it.
Could it have anything to do with identity verification, surveillance, and control?
And if so, why can’t they even get that right?
Looking forward to seeing how long @EUCommission can drag the corpse of W Social around before people realise it’s dead.
Oh, and how does this make the whole “European alternatives” thing look? Not good. Not because there aren’t excellent European alternatives but because the folks at the commission are either too clueless or too corrupt to recognise and support them.
So, yeah, how’s your Monday going?
¹ e.g., https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116770333053823108, etc.
² https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01KVD55YBYVM3B46ACQTECDMT2
³ https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-untold-story-about-w-social-unconventional-beginnings-strategic-pitches-conflicting-signals/ (from the YouTube video that they since deleted. Nice transparency there, clowns.)
⁴ Run this script in Node 18+ to reproduce the numbers from their PDS yourself: https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/branch/main/wsocial-pds-stats.js Also see https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-broken-ghost-town/ and https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/
#WSocial #EU #sovereignty #socialMedia #socialNetworking #mastodon #fediverse #activityPub #ATProto #startups #EUCommission
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Sharing this! Wish I'm not late for #IETF126
Tangled found PDS doesn't fit well for contributions even with upcoming permissioned space spec.
So, we are planning to store record-like data outside of PDS, in Knot. This is a post explaining the reasons & upstream spec change we need.
#atproto #atdev
tangled-cob.md · by boltless.m... -
Sharing this! Wish I'm not late for #IETF126
Tangled found PDS doesn't fit well for contributions even with upcoming permissioned space spec.
So, we are planning to store record-like data outside of PDS, in Knot. This is a post explaining the reasons & upstream spec change we need.
#atproto #atdev
tangled-cob.md · by boltless.m... -
I dunno if this is a big deal to anybody else, but it's huge for me. It's the culmination of everything I've been working on this year. The game dev feeds and labeler, HappyView, Pentaract, Cartridge... it's all been for this.
I am SO excited to release soon and start onboarding studios. 😎
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Y'ALL OMGOMGOMGOMG
I just did the first full, successful game migration for a @[email protected] game record via @[email protected]. I am OVER THE FUCKING MOON right now. 🥳
God, I've been working toward making this possible (and easy!) for so long. Like... pre-AtmosphereConf.
#atproto
at://birb.house/games.gamesgam... -
I don't *want* to run a PDS but it solves the "Sign Up" issue easily.
(should this be a discussion on discourse.atprotocol.community/ #atproto)
ATProtocol Community -
I'm willing to add things to encourage it like:
- restricting client logins
- restricting what lexicons are permitted to be written/accessed
- setting storage limits
People don't migrate if they don't have a reason. But the thing is, WHERE do they migrate to? #atproto -
I keep getting the feeling that running my own PDS for my services is the only durable way for folks who aren't #ATProto -pilled to get into things. Like migration from PDS to PDS being relatively easy is enough of an anchor to do so.
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum 17 July, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-17-july-2026/
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum 17 July, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-17-july-2026/
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum 17 July, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-17-july-2026/
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum 17 July, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-17-july-2026/
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum 17 July, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-17-july-2026/
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📝 Self hosting a PDS isn't hard (so far) #development #webdev #tech #atproto #bluesky
Due to my compulsive need to self-host whatever I possibly can, I decided to set up a self-hosted PDS. All that's on it so far is my Bluesky profile data, but it was a surprisingly painless process.
https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/self-hosting-a-pds-isnt-hard-so-far
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📝 Self hosting a PDS isn't hard (so far) #development #webdev #tech #atproto #bluesky
Due to my compulsive need to self-host whatever I possibly can, I decided to set up a self-hosted PDS. All that's on it so far is my Bluesky profile data, but it was a surprisingly painless process.
https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/self-hosting-a-pds-isnt-hard-so-far
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i could also be entirely wrong about auth! curious what the "correct" thing to do here would be #atproto
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@riyo.skyphone.social a solo developer from Japan 🇯🇵 builds - all by himself - SkyPhone Social, a multilingual social network app that connects people through translation. Posts are automatically translated into the recipient's language. Compatible with Bluesky #atproto. Impressive!
skyphone.social
SkyPhone Social — 翻訳でつながる多言語SN... -
Been trying out twinkl it's fun, like it #twinkl #atproto #atmosphere
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kwn46twc437zahwtech4tdv7/post/3mqttkvb4rf2e -
The Programmer's Fulcrum 17 July, 2026: Welcome to your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. #fediverse #activitypub #ATProto #programming #webDev
Posted into THE FULCRUM: CODING FOR DEMOCRACY AND THE OMN @the-fulcrum-coding-for-democracy-and-the-omn-mobileatom
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y'all, come on thru! A bunch of atproto nerds are about to have /so much fun/ playing Chaos Soccer!
#atproto
@chris.pardy.family's livestre... -
(the stream in question)
#atproto
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kwgllf365cwmxbnxitx4pjdj/post/3mqosmnqn5s2c -
Not me over here trying to get all the goodies so I can stomp everybody on stream in 30 minutes. 👀
#atproto
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ew5e3up4h2jf4j263qhdjo4e/post/3mqs6pezrzk2k -
Huh, interesting. Bluesky the company trademarked the name of "AT Protocol" as "primarily a defensive measure" against abuse.
Going forward, "most everyday use cases [won't] require a license".
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Huh, interesting. Bluesky the company trademarked the name of "AT Protocol" as "primarily a defensive measure" against abuse.
Going forward, "most everyday use cases [won't] require a license".
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¡Estoy deseando charlar sobre #atproto esta noche!
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ktf7tvvzhi5nszz2xtlerbhr/post/3mqk36syris2f -
¡Estoy deseando charlar sobre #atproto esta noche!
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ktf7tvvzhi5nszz2xtlerbhr/post/3mqk36syris2f -
My personal site will be /ridiculously/ atmospheric within the next few days.
- rebuilt with Astro
- static build (ditch my old blog CMS for Markdown)
- swap my custom standard.site publishing for Sequoia
- deploy with wisp.place
Lots of work, but I am excite. 😎
#atproto
Sequoia -
I'll be playing in this! Make sure to come hang out! 🥰
#atproto
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kwgllf365cwmxbnxitx4pjdj/post/3mqosmnqn5s2c -
Is my ATProto app actually decentralized?
A few days ago I wrote about rolld, the little board game tracker I built on the AT Protocol. As I mentioned then, this is very much a learning experiment for me, a way to play with ATProto and learn about it. In this post, I'd like to come back to a few of my struggles and the things I learned while designing it. -
New blog post time, it's a quickie. The tl;dr is now my site is on the Atmosphere, Bluesky/ATProto's network.
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Just added the Atmosphere plugin to my WordPress setup. IT was THAT easy and painless to add, lol. Now my posts will be saved on my PDS, neat.
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Are you a fan of #MUD #MUSH #MOO games? You know, text-based games running over telnet? Now imagine that running over #ATproto.
Welcome to @[email protected] , an #ATmosphere MUD game you can play on your browser.
Come and join! atmud.net
#gaming #games (No, I'm not affiliated with them.)
AtMUD -
Are you a fan of #MUD #MUSH #MOO games? You know, text-based games running over telnet? Now imagine that running over #ATproto.
Welcome to @[email protected] , an #ATmosphere MUD game you can play on your browser.
Come and join! atmud.net
#gaming #games (No, I'm not affiliated with them.)
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum 10 July, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-10-july-2026/
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum 10 July, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-10-july-2026/
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum 10 July, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-10-july-2026/
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum 10 July, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-10-july-2026/
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum 10 July, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-10-july-2026/
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An article can be made directly boostable with #ActivityPub. I call it #APnative and WordPress and Ghost already allow us to publish that way. I desperately want this to happen with podcasts too. Perhaps such that we use AP in addition or instead of RSS as the base of the format.
Can content that works with #ATproto live outside of a PDS? (I'm not sure I'm even asking the question correctly)
cc @mackuba
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An article can be made directly boostable with #ActivityPub. I call it #APnative and WordPress and Ghost already allow us to publish that way. I desperately want this to happen with podcasts too. Perhaps such that we use AP in addition or instead of RSS as the base of the format.
Can content that works with #ATproto live outside of a PDS? (I'm not sure I'm even asking the question correctly)
cc @mackuba
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"AT Protocol is not #Bluesky…
The reason I draw your attention to this distinction is because #ATProto has interesting properties, notably in how it supports #pluggable #identity that doesn't depend on the server you use… This puts power in the hands of the #users and not in those of #serveradmins. It means that you can always guarantee credible exit, you cannot get locked in. By default, email-style federation is subject to capture, and indeed email is captured."
https://berjon.com/ap-at/ -
"AT Protocol is not #Bluesky…
The reason I draw your attention to this distinction is because #ATProto has interesting properties, notably in how it supports #pluggable #identity that doesn't depend on the server you use… This puts power in the hands of the #users and not in those of #serveradmins. It means that you can always guarantee credible exit, you cannot get locked in. By default, email-style federation is subject to capture, and indeed email is captured."
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I moved my Bluesky account to Eurosky. It was the most technical thing I have done since updating DNS records, honestly 😅 I had to deal with migrator tools, DIDs, rotation keys, recovery keys, Migration Tokens, typing in my old password, new password, old handle, new handle, "PDS Mover - Missing Blobs Importer"...
There are explanations like "do not close this page!" and "monitor your email!" and "If you're wondering what 'blobs' are, that is simply what media files are called on the AT Protocol, the network that includes Bluesky, Eurosky and others."
For me as a nerd, things like these are naturally part of everyday life, just like setting up DNS records or configuring services, installing servers and infrastructures, programming and so on. But they said mAsToD0n iS diFfIcUlt wHaT is A sErVeR sO cOmPLIcaTed?!! Moving a Mastodon account from one instance to another seems like a walk in the park in comparison. My mom would not know how to migrate a Bluesky account to Europe.
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I moved my Bluesky account to Eurosky. It was the most technical thing I have done since updating DNS records, honestly 😅 I had to deal with migrator tools, DIDs, rotation keys, recovery keys, Migration Tokens, typing in my old password, new password, old handle, new handle, "PDS Mover - Missing Blobs Importer"...
There are explanations like "do not close this page!" and "monitor your email!" and "If you're wondering what 'blobs' are, that is simply what media files are called on the AT Protocol, the network that includes Bluesky, Eurosky and others."
For me as a nerd, things like these are naturally part of everyday life, just like setting up DNS records or configuring services, installing servers and infrastructures, programming and so on. But they said mAsToD0n iS diFfIcUlt wHaT is A sErVeR sO cOmPLIcaTed?!! Moving a Mastodon account from one instance to another seems like a walk in the park in comparison. My mom would not know how to migrate a Bluesky account to Europe.
