Joe Basser
@joebasser.com
Building AT Protocol Visual Wonderland @sprk.so
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Great post from @joebasser.com on how atproto can fix broken models of social media (lock-in; user-hostile incentive structures) with greater, choice, ownership, interoperability…
An ecosystem sustained by both *niches + networks* might be a good way to summarize what we're building here!
An ecosystem sustained by both *niches + networks* might be a good way to summarize what we're building here!
Social Media is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It. - Interlinked
Breaking down the AT Protocol for normies.
blog.joebasser.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Great post from @joebasser.com on how atproto can fix broken models of social media (lock-in; user-hostile incentive structures) with greater, choice, ownership, interoperability…
An ecosystem sustained by both *niches + networks* might be a good way to summarize what we're building here!
An ecosystem sustained by both *niches + networks* might be a good way to summarize what we're building here!
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> Mark Andreessen crashing out posting Sydney Sweeney memes at the Pope
> Alex Carp bitching at Michael Burry shorting because Palantir sells "ontology"
> Sam Altman asking for a government bailout
> Elon Musk celebrating his 1 trillion payout by making Grok say "I love you"
Calling the top
> Alex Carp bitching at Michael Burry shorting because Palantir sells "ontology"
> Sam Altman asking for a government bailout
> Elon Musk celebrating his 1 trillion payout by making Grok say "I love you"
Calling the top
November 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
> Mark Andreessen crashing out posting Sydney Sweeney memes at the Pope
> Alex Carp bitching at Michael Burry shorting because Palantir sells "ontology"
> Sam Altman asking for a government bailout
> Elon Musk celebrating his 1 trillion payout by making Grok say "I love you"
Calling the top
> Alex Carp bitching at Michael Burry shorting because Palantir sells "ontology"
> Sam Altman asking for a government bailout
> Elon Musk celebrating his 1 trillion payout by making Grok say "I love you"
Calling the top
There are so many great ATProto articles out there, but I wanted to write one that strips things back for the non-tech crowd. This one’s for my friends back home, my mum, and anyone else who just wants to know why I’m building on this weird, wonderful protocol.
Social Media is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It.
Breaking down the AT Protocol for normies.
blog.joebasser.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
There are so many great ATProto articles out there, but I wanted to write one that strips things back for the non-tech crowd. This one’s for my friends back home, my mum, and anyone else who just wants to know why I’m building on this weird, wonderful protocol.
Competition Competition Competition.
About The Other Night... - Graze Newsletter
How Graze is defining the next era of a decentralized, open social attention economy.
graze.leaflet.pub
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Competition Competition Competition.
Something very wrong here…
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Something very wrong here…
So great meeting more of the NYC ATProto community tonight. Thank you @schlage.town for organising!
October 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
So great meeting more of the NYC ATProto community tonight. Thank you @schlage.town for organising!
Any simple ATProto voting/poll apps?
October 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Any simple ATProto voting/poll apps?
I 🫶 @roost.tools
Excited to announce here at the @parispeaceforum.bsky.social that, after months of joint technical work together, OpenAI will open source through ROOST one of its main internal models that handles detection and moderation. This will allow anyone or any company to use, test, and study the model.
October 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I 🫶 @roost.tools
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The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
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hey NYC atproto folks! @schlage.town has organized the next meetup on Oct 29:
smokesignal.events/did:plc:jjsc...
smokesignal.events/did:plc:jjsc...
brooklyn atproto meetup oct 2025
Let's get together to hang in Brooklyn and talk atproto!
We'll meet at Lowlands, a great neighborhood bar in Gowanus. We'll be there from 5 til probably 7:30 or 8, and we'll order some pizzas.
This ...
smokesignal.events
October 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
hey NYC atproto folks! @schlage.town has organized the next meetup on Oct 29:
smokesignal.events/did:plc:jjsc...
smokesignal.events/did:plc:jjsc...
Can’t wait to breathe that clean Vancouver ATmosphere
Announcing ATmosphereConf 2026, coming to Vancouver March 26th to 29th.
We've got the full announcement and future news and updates on our new site news.atmosphereconf.org/3m3cwwz4mpk2j
We've got the full announcement and future news and updates on our new site news.atmosphereconf.org/3m3cwwz4mpk2j
Announcing ATmosphereConf Vancouver 2026 - ATmosphereConf News
The next ATProto Community Conference is coming to Vancouver, Canada, in March 26th to 29th 2026
news.atmosphereconf.org
October 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Can’t wait to breathe that clean Vancouver ATmosphere
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i think the only way for atproto to succeed is for us to show what apps can do when every app sees every other app's public data, and they share an identity system. no technical or sociological argument is as convincing as seeing seamless interop and the lighthearted competitive landscape it unlocks
October 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
i think the only way for atproto to succeed is for us to show what apps can do when every app sees every other app's public data, and they share an identity system. no technical or sociological argument is as convincing as seeing seamless interop and the lighthearted competitive landscape it unlocks
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Want to remark on a sentiment I've heard from the AT dev community ‒ in specific words, even, from @bmann.ca, @knowtheory.net, and @rude1.blacksky.team, which I'll likely botch here:
Lead with joy, not fear.
I think that belief shows up a lot, and it's really affected me for the better!
Lead with joy, not fear.
I think that belief shows up a lot, and it's really affected me for the better!
October 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Want to remark on a sentiment I've heard from the AT dev community ‒ in specific words, even, from @bmann.ca, @knowtheory.net, and @rude1.blacksky.team, which I'll likely botch here:
Lead with joy, not fear.
I think that belief shows up a lot, and it's really affected me for the better!
Lead with joy, not fear.
I think that belief shows up a lot, and it's really affected me for the better!
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Anything helps! Contributions go directly towards development on @slices.network open source projects and community resources. #atproto
Excited to announce we're now on Open Collective! We're accepting contributions of any size to support development and infrastructure. Every donation helps us build better open source SDKs and tools so you can ship your #atproto apps faster. opencollective.com/slices-network
Slices Network - Open Collective
Empowering developers to build the next generation of social apps on AT Protocol
opencollective.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Anything helps! Contributions go directly towards development on @slices.network open source projects and community resources. #atproto
This site goes so unbelievably hard. Who’s designing it? @rude1.blacksky.team
Our new, rebranded website is live. 🚀
🤓: and, look at that -- it's federated blackskyweb.xyz/.well-known/...
🤓: and, look at that -- it's federated blackskyweb.xyz/.well-known/...
Build Community Online with Decentralized Tools | Blacksky
Decentralized tools to build community online. The intercommunal net where communities govern, pool funds and stay safe on their own terms.
blackskyweb.xyz
October 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This site goes so unbelievably hard. Who’s designing it? @rude1.blacksky.team
Came out of eye surgery this morning and just have to be browsing bluesky with one eye. Sooooo much positivity. The energy is palpable. ‘Eye’ love it. Aha ha ha
October 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Came out of eye surgery this morning and just have to be browsing bluesky with one eye. Sooooo much positivity. The energy is palpable. ‘Eye’ love it. Aha ha ha
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It would be wild if someone would build a social site where you could migrate away without losing all your connections if you didn't like the owner. Maybe even host your account on your own box, at home, so you could switch apps seamlessly or build your own. I think that would improve society.
October 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It would be wild if someone would build a social site where you could migrate away without losing all your connections if you didn't like the owner. Maybe even host your account on your own box, at home, so you could switch apps seamlessly or build your own. I think that would improve society.
Open open open
Bluesky runs on open protocols with open source code. Today we’re taking an additional step and making a patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everyone can build confidently on our work.
Learn more and read the pledge in our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
Learn more and read the pledge in our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
Bluesky's Patent Non-Aggression Pledge - Bluesky
Bluesky develops open protocols. We're taking a short and simple patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everybody feels confident building on them.
bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Open open open
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Excited to open source @slices.network today! This is alpha software and the hosted instance is managed via a waitlist so bear with me! Looking to start onboarding folks and testing more broadly. Come join the discord discord.gg/NqSd3eW8S8!
tangled-search.bigmoves.deno.net/share-repo/a...
tangled-search.bigmoves.deno.net/share-repo/a...
slices by @slices.network
Highly ambitious ATProtocol AppView service and sdks
tangled-search.bigmoves.deno.net
September 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Excited to open source @slices.network today! This is alpha software and the hosted instance is managed via a waitlist so bear with me! Looking to start onboarding folks and testing more broadly. Come join the discord discord.gg/NqSd3eW8S8!
tangled-search.bigmoves.deno.net/share-repo/a...
tangled-search.bigmoves.deno.net/share-repo/a...
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spark is fully ingesting to its own AppView for bluesky follows, feed generators and blocks. we hope to be fully off the bluesky API soon, our last step is ingesting bluesky posts and then the hardest one will be bluesky likes.
September 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
spark is fully ingesting to its own AppView for bluesky follows, feed generators and blocks. we hope to be fully off the bluesky API soon, our last step is ingesting bluesky posts and then the hardest one will be bluesky likes.
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September 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Reposted by Joe Basser
i wrote about atproto and why it matters
Open Social — overreacted
The protocol is the API.
overreacted.io
September 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
i wrote about atproto and why it matters
Upcloud go brrrr
relay.upcloud.world is up for now, maybe it’ll need some scale tweaks if we do a large backfill but otherwise hey lewis delivered 👍👍
https://relay.upcloud.world
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relay.upcloud.world
September 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Upcloud go brrrr