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#Bluesky has launched #Attie, an #AIpowered app that allows users to create custom feeds by typing commands in natural language. Built on the AT Protocol, Attie leverages #Anthropic’s #Claude and is designed to be user-friendly, enabling people to curate #personalisedfeeds without coding knowledge. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/28/bluesky-leans-into-ai-with-attie-an-app-for-building-custom-feeds/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

RE: https://mas.to/@Aubreader/116330793703168577

This article is a must read.

An excerpt: “Why would anyone fund an Atmosphere project if #Bluesky, with $100 million in the bank, might ship a competing feature at any moment? Why would a founder bet their career on this ecosystem? The presentation didn't just hurt Graze. It made the entire ecosystem look unfundable.”

Why do I keep bringing up this topic?

Because #ATproto is often put in the same category as #ActivityPub (“open protocols yay”) but I strongly disagree with that stance

Mastodon v. Bluesky

Mastodon
Owned by: No one and everyone
Structure: Public non-profit
Decentralized: Thousands
Post length: 500 characters and more
Quote-Post: Yes Opt-In
Can edit? Yes
Vibe coded: No
DDoS impact: Minimal for 2 hr, Mitigated

Bluesky
Owned by: Venture capitalists
Structure: Corporate for profit
Decentralized: A few (sort of)
Post length: 300 characters
Quote-Post: Yes Required
Can edit? No
Vibe coded: Yes
DDoS impact: Offline for 1 day, Ongoing 1 wk

#Mastodon #Bluesky

Time to 'fork off' 🙋‍♂️

2024: ‘We DO NOT use any of your content to TRAIN GENERATIVE AI, and have NO INTENTION of doing so.’

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/15/24297442/bluesky-no-intention-train-generative-ai-posts

2025: “If I decided tomorrow to change things in a way that people didn’t really like, then they could FORK OFF and go on to other applications.”

https://observer.com/2025/03/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-wants-world-without-caesars/

2026: Bluesky users are WRONG about their resentment over AI and should instead embrace it.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bluesky-users-disgust-new-ai

Maybe it's time to fork off... to Mastodon.

#Bluesky

#nature #naturephotography #naturephoto #autumn #autumnvibes #autumncolours #forest #forestphoto #forestphotography #trees #canopy #fall #fallcolours #lookup #leaves #natural #outside #outdoors #outdoor #outdoorphoto #outdooradventures #hikingadventures #trail #trailadventures #hikingtrail #photo #photography #photooftheday #pic #picoftheday #bluesky #skyward #day #daytime

I moved my #bluesky account successfully to #leafplaza, a European derivative on #eu servers.

I did the movement not by myself, because my BS-Account was too huge (30 GB+), so the wonderful Leaf Plaza-Support helped me and did the movement overnight manually.

The Leaf Plaza App for #android and #ios is available for free in the app stores. There will be an #ipad version in the future too.

What's missing is a web front-end, but it will happen in the near future ...

https://www.leafplaza.eu/

Hello from my new #Mastadon account. I deleted #Facebook, #Pinterest, #Instagram & #BlueSky. I hope this forum is not so American-centric. Here's to #gardening #nature #flowers and #maincoons !

#introduction #newhere

Interesting things are happing in the Atmosphere (the network built out around Bluesky and their ATProto protocol).

"With Acorn, Blacksky is providing access to these same tools to other communities that want to build their own spaces on the open social web."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/as-x-shuts-down-communities-acorn-debuts-an-alternative-that-puts-creators-in-control/

#news #technology #TechNews #atmosphere #ATProto #bluesky #blacksky #BlackskyAcorn

Gee, ya don’t say …

#Bluesky Says #Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread #Propaganda

The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real #users’ accounts to post fake #content, an apparently novel tactic.

#MediaLiteracy #disinformation #misinformation #Russia #RussianPropaganda #tech #SocialMedia
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/business/bluesky-russia-hacking-accounts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

I have written a sample letter that you can use to invite organizations to join the #Fediverse.

The letter is shared under a #CC0 license. Feel free to copy, adapt and send it to organizations that still rely on #BigTech.

Thanks to @danie1 for the English translation.

Replies to this post will also appear as comments under the blog post.

https://bammerlaan.nl/posts/Example_letter_Fediverse

#OpenSource #SocialMedia #mastodon #decentralisation #PublicSpaces #x #threads #bluesky #DigitalSovereignty #ActivityPub #AntiTrust

" #France shifts away from #Palantir, towards ‘ #AI #sovereignty’"

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/france-shifts-away-from-palantir-towards-ai-sovereignty

👏 👏 👏

Keep it up #Europe

But please do me a favor

Don't replace #USA #techbro shit with... USA-style techbro shit (like this #W #Bluesky vomitorium)

And if I need to explain to you what I mean... no I don't think I need to do that. You feel what that means in your bones

I say this as an American

#techSovereignty #EU

Something no one addressed yet: #ATmosphere posts are not indexable by search engines. It should be as it will help increase exposure of the network.

The same can be said with #Fediverse posts. I only see #Threads indexed.

#Bluesky #Mastodon #SocialWeb #OpenSocial

“Look, just fucking use Mastodon already” by @arilin

🔗 https://giants-club.net/articles/just-use-mastodon/

> Who could have predicted Bluesky could ever have run that risk? I mean, apart from everyone warning us that it was launched by weirdo alt-right blockchain-shilling AI-loving shitbird Jack Dorsey, and that their current CEO came from a weirdo alt-right blockchain-shilling AI-loving shitbird background. You know. Besides them.

#Mastodon #Bluesky

⚓️ https://nicolas-hoizey.com/links/2026/06/18/look-just-fucking-use-mastodon-already/

So I usually hate sending over bluesky links anywhere since I'm not a fan, but Rob Ricci highlights some important distinctions between #activitypub and #atproto

Fundamentally, activitypub is designed to be useful with a partial view of the network. (Narrowing down to #mastodon here) Likes are communicated, mentions are communicated, and so on.

Over at atproto land, you have no option but to write to your repo, and so you have no choice but to view the entire network to say, find replies and such (narrowing to #bluesky here). So the only way you can get your data is to read the network and filter it yourself, or have someone else do it for you, which doesn't solve the problem, only shift it.

https://bsky.app/profile/ricci.io/post/3mooua5znk225

#bluesky #bsky #atproto #mastodon #fediverse #activitypub

Avete seguito i primi commenti su #W, presentato come il nuovo social network europeo basato su at protocol che è lo stesso usato da #Bluesky? @_elena

Sembra una versione più #gdpr compliant (ma devo approfondire) dei social network commerciali tradizionali USA. Ma è forse una semplificazione eccessiva. Si tratta in effetti di una iniziativa a scopo commerciale con base nello spazio economico europeo e vincoli sugli investitori che devono essere europei (elemento identitario della strategia di marketing adottata per il lancio che potrebbe essere fuorviante, quindi occhio).

La verifica dell'identità sembra essere centralizzata e demandata ad una entità che fa capo alla società svedese che sviluppa il social network. Quindi questa società potrebbe teoricamente revocare i certificati di identità.

Il social network (le istanze) sono teoricamente federate o federabili ma la certificazione dell'identità è centralizzata.

L'entità centrale che garantirebbe l'identità degli utenti svolge la funzione delle autorità di certificazione in modo simile a quanto avviene nella firma digitale o nello SPID. Non è escluso quindi che in futuro possa essere dato accesso all'ecosistema anche ad altre autorità di identificazione (anzi sarebbe auspicabile).

Questo sistema dovrebbe riuscire a risolvere il problema dei bot e degli account fasulli.
Quindi in alcuni casi potrebbe essere utile (istituzioni, politici, in genere soggetti che richiedano certezza sull'identità).

Certo che se per verificare l'identità bisogna installare l'app dell'autorità di certificazione dal Play Store di G, non partiamo proprio benissimo.

Comunque questo pregiudizio strisciante che qualsiasi cosa che sia europeo sia buono a prescindere mi preoccupa parecchio perché obnubila le menti e riduce l'esercizio del senso critico.

Se ci sono errori scrivete pure. Sto cercando di capire e quello che ho scritto è il frutto di una mia prima ricerca.

#atprotocol #widentity

Con #ATprotocol puoi installare un tuo server dove conservi e controlli tutti i tuoi dati e le varie app della cd. #ATmosfera (#Bluesky, #MU ma non solo) prendono i tuoi contenuti da lì. La portabilità teoricamente è by design nel protocollo. Il PDS (personal data server) non è altro che un repository dei contenuti dell'utente, accessibile alle app sia in lettura che in scrittura. Certo poi bisogna vedere come vengono implementati i servizi. Ad es. se un provider garantisce la tua identità dopo averla verificata la portabilità diventa più complicata. A meno che non ne facciano un business. Crei l'utente verificato e poi a pagamento lo trasferisco dove vuoi. Cosa che non sarebbe negativa a prescindere secondo me.

Of all the #Bluesky client forms, #Witchsky is still better and ahead of the pack, even if compared with the main Bluesky app itself.

You like themes? 👇🏽

Try it here: witchsky.app 🪄

I have been on #Fediverse for about a little bit over a year and a half now.

After about three weeks over at #Bluesky, I decided to set myself up with a #Mastodon and a #Pixelfed account despite felt technically intimidated by the whole Fediverse thing. And I’m glad I went for it—enjoy the vibes, the different communities, especially the #Wordle community, and the people!!!
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bluesky is decentralized in the same way my tits are small

it isn't

#bsky #bluesky

Repeat after me:

"Corporate tech will always betray me.

Corporate tech is never the adult in the room.

I fight for the users!"

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rdb6gclfgsffzgcgly4vjmh2/post/3mmz2dycdjk2v

#BlueSky #FellForItAgain #fediverse #socialmedia

@ricci

Have you seen this blog post?

It confirms, from first-hand experience, most of the points I made in an earlier post and its follow-up.

@jdp23 @innocentzero

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #Mastodon #ATProto #Bluesky

Ken White, aka Popehat, a lawyer and popular poster on #Bluesky was recently suspended (https://www.popehat.com/p/a-bit-of-tedious-drama-at-bluesky). Suspension now over, Ken writes:

"...I believe that returning after a suspension carries with it an implicit promise that I won’t post that, or something like it, again. I won’t make that promise, so I won’t return to Bluesky."

Indeed, Bluesky is demonstrating they can extort censorship with the ban hammer. Other users are put on notice it's not you this time, toe the line.

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Hey fedi, should I be using Mastodon instead of other instances? The reason that I ask is because of this: (queue image)
Not being able to see all of someone’s posts isn’t ideal, plus it seems like Mastodon is largely the most used(?)

#Ramblings #question #curious #fedi #fediverse #mastodon #wafrn #bluesky

We just rebuilt vir.group from the ground up. This is not a minor update. This is a fundamental rewrite of the product DNA.
https://vir.group
What changed:

ActivityPub integration is now fully native. Your posts reach the entire fediverse. Hundreds of millions of users across Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, and dozens of other compatible platforms. No duplicate content. No managing multiple accounts. Post once. Reach the world.

Matrix protocol with E2EE encryption is now the default. Even we cannot read your messages. Session keys are yours alone. Recovery key gives you full control. Encrypted reactions, replies, edits, deletions. Works on mobile and web simultaneously.

Audio and video calls are built directly into the app. WebRTC with our own TURN relay in Europe. HD video. Noise suppression. CallKit on iOS. Push notifications on locked screen. No external links. No "let's switch to Zoom."

Projects hub is now a full marketplace. Publish your project with description, media, links, tags, and investor pitch. Categories for technology, art, education, manufacturing, services. Global reach via ActivityPub. Premium placement with 48-hour moderation. SEO optimization with short links and canonical URLs. Click analytics. Direct encrypted chat with interested parties.

Full feed control. Filter by words, topics, languages, domains. Mute, block, hide. Choose global, local, followed, trending, or your own custom lists. No algorithmic recommendations. You decide what you see.

Web version now matches mobile. Three columns. Composer. Side navigation. Same E2EE. Same calls coming soon. Responsive design that works on ultra-wide monitors without stretching one column across the screen.

This is not a social network. Not a messenger. Not a project marketplace. It is all three. Built for builders, creators, investors, and analysts.

Register in one minute. Publish your first project today.

#virgroup #ActivityPub #Fediverse #Matrix #E2EE #DecentralizedWeb #OpenWeb #PrivacyMatters #SecureMessaging #Startups #Entrepreneurs #Investors #ProjectShowcase #CreatorEconomy #SocialNetwork #Bluesky #Mastodon

The #FSF is now on #Bluesky: Here's how and why we did it: https://u.fsf.org/4cc