dame
@dame.is
Creative technologist by day, three moths in a trench coat by night. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ Maker of @anisota.net, @aturi.to, @flushes.app, @poe.atpota.to, and more. Website: dame.is
Creative technologist by day, three moths in a trench coat by night. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ Maker of @anisota.net, @aturi.to, @flushes.app, @poe.atpota.to, and more. Website: dame.is
Over the past 12 months I designed, built, and launched a dozen apps and experiences on the AT Protocol, including anisota.net, a calmer user interface for Bluesky, and Aturi, a toolkit for navigating the open ecosystem of apps built on the same protocol. Together these projects reached 100K+ unique visitors in their first year, earned me a shoutout from the stage of SXSW, landed me an appearance on CodeTV, and allowed me to present my work at Atmosphere Conference 2026. Before this, I spent a decade growing products, brands, and communities for tech companies in decentralized web, healthcare SaaS, and consumer SaaS.
I was invited to participate in an episode of CodeTV’s “Web Dev Challenge”, so I flew out to Portland, Oregon for the filming. The episode was sponsored by Bluesky and the theme of the challenge was based around the AT Protocol. You can watch the full episode below.
Over the course of 12 months, I created a dozen ATmosphere based projects, apps, and experiences ranging from a decentralized toilet to a client interface named after a moth. Collectively these projects amassed 100,000 unique visitors and over half a million page views. Each project took me deeper and deeper into the world of the AT Protocol and showed me what the future of social media might look like... and what it could take to get there. Over the course of this presentation I shared the lessons I learned and what I think it means for the future of social media.
Aturi is a small toolkit for getting around the AT Protocol, the open network behind Bluesky. It's three tools in one: a browser extension that lets you open the same account or post in whatever client you prefer, universal links you can share that aren't tied to a single app, and a viewer for exploring the raw data on any account's personal data server.
some informal faqs for anisota
How and why I created a "decentralized" approach to paywalls
Some personal reflections and details about the future from the creator
Anisota is a new, more peaceful kind of social media interface that helps you be offline more and online better. In Anisota, browsing social media is like exploring a tranquil, mysterious forest. Instead of being dropped in to consuming content immediately, you choose when to enter. Your energy is finite, just like in real life, and you make camp when you need rest. When you're done, you leave the forest carrying what you found there. The app is inspired by Appalachia, moths, text based RPGs, and card games. Since launch it has seen over 100,000 unique visitors and has paid members. I've been building it over the past 18 months, releasing major updates regularly based on my vision and user feedback. The brand mark and logo is a stamp I carved by hand.
A comprehensive guide for companies, communities, and creators looking to establish and grow their presence on Bluesky.
We all know by now that I believe in the lexicon black market and an enjoy illegal atproto records. It's not my fault that Bluesky PBC allowed for such shenanigans! If the good lord had intended for us to walk, she wouldn't have invented roller skates.
Remixing a slide from a 1970s IBM presentation. (context)
Flushes is a small social app for the bathroom, built on the AT Protocol (the same network behind Bluesky). You sign in with your Bluesky account, pick an emoji, and post a "flush" to say you're on the toilet. Each one is saved as a record on your own data server, so you keep your own data.
Several years ago, back when Twitter was a thing and it had a decent API, my friend @goose.art did a weird little experiment where he made his avatar dynamic... it automatically changed appearances on a regular basis and became increasingly deep-fried (increased in distortion and lossy compression). I've seen several other people mess around with this concept since then, and I've always had it in the back of my head as something I wanted to eventually try for myself.
In November of 2007, Facebook made a tiny change to its user interface that would massively influence what we know of today as a 'post' on social media. What was that change?
A comprehensive, two-part guide to Non-Fungible Tokens: the first half explains the terminology and industry landscape, the second helps you decide whether to start collecting or creating.
As Content & Community Manager for the Rainbow wallet, I grew its Twitter following from 8,000 to 50,000, hosted a weekly live audio show, and built out its first customer support team.