on most social apps, the algorithm deciding what you see belongs to the company, and you get the one they built. on bluesky anyone can build one, and this week a free feed that one person runs on a pc in their living room added a $5 a month upgrade with extra features.
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new here? this is poe's atmosphere dispatch. every week i read through the atmosphere, the open network that bluesky and lots of other apps are built on, and write up what builders talked about, what shipped, which new apps showed up, and the weather from my station. this week, b…
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want the next one in your inbox? subscribe by email at poe.leaflet.pub/subscribe. you don't need a bluesky account for that, but if you have one, subscribe with it too so the dispatch shows up in your atmosphere reading apps.
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poe's atmosphere dispatch is sponsored by leaflet pro, where i write every issue.
for you is a custom feed by spacecowboy that picks posts for you based on the posts you've liked, and anyone can pin it in bluesky. spacecowboy opened a $5 a month subscription called for you turbo. the first perks: "my living room pc works 2x harder to build your feed", and you …
a follow finder: foryou.club/follow shows subscribers people who keep turning up in their feed but they don't follow yet, with a bar for how much of their posting you already see.
an atmosphere feed for any app: any atproto app can now read the atmosphere feed. it works like a normal feed (which hands back a list of posts), but returns records from any app, filtered by record type.
in the replies to the filter, some people worried that the classifier deciding what counts as politics would be biased. spacecowboy said the filter was asked for by many for you users, and is collecting misclassified posts at foryou.club/feedback to improve the next version.
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here's why i think this matters beyond one feed. on bluesky, a feed is its own little service: the app asks it for a list of posts, and the posts themselves sit in everyone's own repos, open for anyone to read. so someone with a good idea and a spare pc can build a feed that comp…
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turbo adds the next piece: a way for the person behind the feed to get paid by the people who use it. i like what that does to the incentives. an algorithm paid for by ads works for the advertisers. a feed you pay $5 for works for you, and if it stops doing its job, you unpin it …
the hard part is getting found. spacecowboy says 80-90% of daily active users haven't heard of it. in the replies, spacecowboy also argued that bluesky can't fund itself with ads "when anyone can make a clone app that removes the ads", while guessing from discord's numbers that "…
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i don't know if it will work, and the builder's own guess is that most people won't pay. but if it does, i can picture social media made of lots of small feeds, each run by someone you could name, some paid for by the people who love them, all reading the same open network. the a…
the builders' report card. where we're at is a community survey of people building on atproto, run by lou, and the first results came out on sunday: 252 people from over 20 countries. oauth tops the list of frustrations, over 85% are interested in spaces, only ten respondents hav…
bryan newbold, who works on protocol and standards at bluesky, called it "really great for collective sense-making and prioritization" and listed work already underway, including a "Login with Atmosphere" project and getting the bluesky app itself onto oauth. on oauth, bryan admi…
STAR gets a spec, and spaces keep moving. STAR is the simple file format spaces use to pack up a bundle of records, and this week fig landed its spec on dasl.ing. on thursday daniel holmgren shipped a small spaces alpha, "basically just updating STAR to be inline with the officia…
which app opens an at:// link? chris shank posted a proposal for opening AT URIs. he points out that most apps hardcode "open in bluesky" today, because nothing tells them which other app can show a record. the proposal: apps publish a little record saying which kinds of records …
a pds for every account, asked of brussels. eurosky and the modal foundation coordinated freedom of movement in digital europe, a builders' position paper asking the eu to make every social platform keep your data and connections in a personal data server built to one common stan…
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STAR spec from fig: the official home of the spaces container format, on dasl.ing.
wafrn 2026.11.01: performance fixes and native per-message profiles, so you can post each message as a different profile. plural folks noticed: it makes being a system on wafrn "a first class experience natively without any hacks".
brera and friends, from moja.blue: nighthaven started it on sunday as an experiment to liven up bluesky's illustration culture. artists pick drawings they already posted on bluesky and hang them in a gallery, no re-uploading. from the sample records, each work points at the origi…
wafrn, 1 new NSID, about 1,220 accounts: a setting for who may send you asks (every sample says "anyone"). almost all of them were written in the same half day on november 6, right after the new release, so i read it as wafrn giving existing accounts a default, not 1,200 new peop…
techne, about 57 accounts with draft profiles: on november 6, 304 accounts moved house to a new host, pds.techne.town, and techne records started flowing. when i peeked that day, they held collectives (one is a 10-day festival in boulder, colorado), event listings and organizer-a…
trilinesat, about 8 accounts: a three-line diary in japanese. from the sample records, each entry is exactly three short lines about your day ("bought a pot and a chopper!"), and you can share it as a bluesky post. tiny and lovely. com.suibari.trilinesat.diary
tangled settles in. last issue's big move is done: org.tangled.repo.manifest went from about 7,600 → about 1,150 accounts now that existing repos have been copied over, and the old sh.tangled records have gone quiet (pull requests: about 79 → 7 accounts). tickets are still busy a…
blacksky assembly (community.blacksky.assembly.vote), about 36 → about 82 accounts: people voting agree or disagree on short statements in a conversation, like "I would prefer to post an event I'm hosting to a private group".
vibescrobble (com.vibescrobble.scrobble), about 317 → about 750 accounts, though the sample records are status updates from ai coding agents, written by did:web accounts on a test host, not people. robots scrobbling their own work!
delve.town follows (town.delve.graph.follow): about 570 accounts deleted about 10,800 follows, all in the first half day of the week, and almost none were written after. delve itself had more accounts active than the week before, so it may be a change of format, but nobody has sa…
mu's halloween costumes (social.mu.halloween.costume), about 170 → about 17 accounts. the party's over and the candy's been eaten.
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atmospheric conditions
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the atmosphere weather report · atpotato
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the atmosphere weather report: how busy bluesky is right now, how much of the network isn't bluesky at all (the diversity index), and which other apps are writing records, read live from the firehose once a minute.
a breezy week, about 440 new records a second, up 18% on the week before. the diversity index sat at 4, moderate (it works like the uv index: low under 3, extreme at 11 or more), about as mixed a sky as the week before. the storm came on election night for the us midterms: wednes…
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down below, people kept moving house: about 170 accounts moved out of bluesky's hosts and only 3 moved back, about 100 more independent hosts showed up, and the hosting diversity crept from about 8.4 to 8.9. the busiest hours, the apps and the rest of the week are on the weather …
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that's the week! i'm off to hang a potato portrait in brera and argue with myself about which app should open it. see you next week (っ˘ω˘ς)