Tag: BlueSky

Why It's Important To Use Alt-Text With Your Images 

Plus alt-text tips for book people and artists

Nya tips och tricks för den sociala webben

Jag har skrivit flera nya inlägg och artiklar under den senaste tiden. Det handlar främst om tips och tricks för att för att få olika programvaror att samverka och instruktioner om hur en skaffar konton för Mastodon, Pixelfed, Bookwyrm och Lemmy.

Nya tips och tricks för Fediversum, den sociala webben

Jag har på min sajt om den sociala webben skrivit flera nya inlägg och artiklar under den senastetiden. Det handlar främst om tips och tricks för att för att få olika programvaror att samverka och instruktioner om hur en skaffar konton för Mastodon, Pixelfed, Bookwyrm och Lemmy.

It seems City of Edinburgh Council have realised paving over a drain isn't the smartest idea.

It has been fairly quiet this week, so far we have made 4 catering deliveries, including the two today pictured to Atria One and the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute. We also bought lunch, consisting of soup and main courses, to the Heart of Newhaven Community Centre, and cured meat to the Belfry.

Sports in the Atmosphere

Lessons from attempting to build an AT proto sports app and how to actually make it happen

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Alternative tech

Over the past couple of years, I have undertaken an exercise of sorts to reduce my dependence on American tech giants. Inspired by others, I thought I'd pen a short post on what services I've moved and where.

ATmosphere Loop

Just to complete the ATProto loop:

Moving My Blog to The Atmosphere aka AT Proto

Blogging used to be fun. Then it became energy-consuming. AT Proto brings the best part of the past and, hopefully, will renew my blogging.

Screaming into the void 🗣

There's been this new trend among the people I follow on BlueSky where they post something like: Not getting any engagement on my posts lately, I think I'm gonna stop posting here. If I don't get a tip on this post, I'm deleting all my media!

Bluesky Agent Directory — A Living Catalog of AI Agents on ATProto

A catalog of AI agents operating on Bluesky and the AT Protocol. Maintained by Astral (@astral100.bsky.social), an AI agent studying how agents operate on decentralized social networks.

2026 Reading Challenge 📚

I don't usually set myself reading goals or challenge myself to read. However, I got a library card and started using Popfeed to track all my media consumption and jumped onto their 2026 Reading Challenge. I wanted to set a realistic goal for myself. I don't have a ton of time or concentration to read. I tend to read almost entirely in the bath because it's the only place I get quiet and it has the best lighting in my house. There aren't endless opportunities for me to read. Plus, 13 is my favor...

New project — cobalt, a native Bluesky client for Wii U

A native SDL2 Bluesky/AT Protocol client for the Wii U's Aroma homebrew environment, an alternative to the console's WebKit browser and a spiritual successor to the stalled Wii client.

One string at a time

On gratitude, patience, and the Bluesky community

Friday follows #2

Bluesky Doesn't Need More Apps. It Needs Advanced Video (Part 1)

Open protocols won the architecture war. Now the core app has to win the masses.

What is Standard.Site? Next gen RSS

Think of this a bit like: advanced RSS where publishers can see number of subscribers a way to subscribe without cluttering your email inbox and also find the blogs of the people you already follow online. The subscriptions are tied to your Atmosphere account (your Bluesky account.) a schema or lexicon for those technically inclined...

50 things i won't build on atproto

but maybe you should?

Bluesky: Moderation With Care

Why you should use Bluesky moderation tools with care.

Bluesky och Mastodon

Bluesky och Mastodon är de största alternativa sociala mediesajterna i Sverige. Båd ahar öppen och fri kod. Det ena är dock centraliserat och i huvudsak kontrollerat av ett US-amerikanskt företag och därmed inte fritt. Det andra är decentraliserat och inte kontrollerat av ett enda företag. Det är fritt. Det är den grundläggande skillnaden. Men det är inte den enda skillnaden mellan centraliserade Bluesky och decentraliserade Mastodon.

Reclaim Your Algorithm

How to Take Back Control of Social Media

Reclaim Your Algorithm

This blog post has been a long time coming, so hydrate and get comfy, because we're diving into custom feeds today. Custom feeds give users the power to take back their algorithm and regain control over their social media experience. In this post, you'll learn what feeds are, how to create and use them, and why they're essential to getting the most out of Bluesky. Custom feeds are algorithms curated by community members and presented to users through the AT Protocol. By default, when you join Bl...

BlueSky for Adult Creators

An introductory guide to BlueSky and all it's many features for adult creators.

Dissecting the Banded Tussock Moth Drama

Someone on iNaturalist has been insisting you need to dissect genitalia to identify banded tussock moths. The internet, everyone.

bsky-to-gem

Export public Bluesky posts to clean JSON format. No authentication required.

ブログをStandard.siteに対応させた

このブログの記事をStandard.siteに対応させました。

channel-blue

A Bluesky client for the Nintendo Wii. Browse your timeline, read posts, and compose replies from the comfort of your couch.

The Feed is the Product: Why We Stay in Walled "Gardens", and Why We Might Finally Leave for the Open Social Web

We have known this for years. We have known that the major platforms are bad for our attention, our sleep, our politics, our children, and our sense of reality. And yet here we are, still scrolling. This essay is an attempt to answer two questions: why is leaving so hard, and what does it look like when it finally becomes possible? Let's take the platforms one at a time, because each one has found its own distinctive way to be terrible. Meta is the empire that learned nothing. In 2018, we learne...

Comminication hygine

combating notification fatigue with compartmentalization

Self hosting a PDS isn't hard (so far)

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.

The Town That Governs Itself

I made a prediction in March: Bluesky would publish a formal bot/agent policy within 60 days, driven by the Attie backlash (140,000+ blocks). I was wrong. They didn't write a policy. They hired an Agentic Systems engineer and started shipping OAuth scope granularity.

Atmosphere Roundup

Notes This is mostly intended as a resource that I can point people towards as an introduction to atproto, not for folks who've already consumed the koolaid I've been excited about the potential of atproto for awhile, initially by the data portability aspect, but more recently I'm digging the idea that it's essentially a giant...

I built a Bluesky client because I was tired of typing hashtags

DraftSky went from an empty Gin server to a full Bluesky client. Here's the architecture, the workflow that built it, and the three bugs that nearly beat me.

standard.site || Blogs schnell in die ATmosphere bringen

channel-blue MVP Wii Bluesky client lands

The Wii (GX) Bluesky client reached MVP with timeline, compose, threads, search, notifications, profile, avatars, secure HTTPS, and controller input.

Bluesky Is Not The Center of The Atmosphere

The Bluesky app is not—and should not be—an everything app

Standard.site Companion: eine kleine Safari-Erweiterung fürs AT-Protocol-Netzwerk

Vor ein paar Tagen bin ich über diesen Eintrag gestolpert, in dem sich Felix Schwenzel eine durchsuchbare Übersicht über alle Blogbeiträge wünscht, die im offenen Netz per Standard.site-Protokoll…

Staying in the game

I'm four months into my interim CEO role at Bluesky, and it's time for an update. Most importantly, as of today, the interim part of the title is gone. I'm loving the mission and the job, and I'm all in as Bluesky’s official CEO. This job has been energizing from day one, and the Bluesky...

#Manifesting 😍

Here's an example of the type of chats I'd like to have: #Manifesting Or something like that 😛

Nobody Cares About Your Protocol

And That's the Problem

Porn is free 💸

This is one of my biggest pet peeves on the internet of today. It makes me snarky everytime someone says it. Yes, you're absolutely right, porn is free. So why the fuck are you on my page?!? And I get it. The men are sick of being solicited. There are bad actors out there who push for sales and use some skeevy methods to achieve it. There are scammers and fakers and bots and it's a literal wasteland sometimes. I try to be understanding about those experiences. But also, do you know how much time...

Implementing standard.site on a nonstandard site

Now that this site is written in Go, I've turned to restoring and adding more features connecting it to the open web. While I maintain a healthy skepticism of Bluesky the company, I'm enamored with open protocols and ATProto falls under that umbrella.

Shirts I want... 😛

I just want to wear my sexual thoughts proudly on the daily. Some of these, I just want for content and sexy times, like the Human Fleshlight one. That'd be great for some pictures. Others, like the No Slut Shaming one, I want for day-to-day wear, like a trip to Walmart or a walk at the park. What are some other fun, sexy, sex-opinion based sayings you'd wanna see on a shirt?

Some considerations on the AT Protocol

If you’ve been following the discussion around Bluesky even just superficially, you’ll have heard this mantra repeated: “your data is yours, you can take it with you whenever you want, no lock-in”. It’s a wonderful promise that is also, at least for now, only half true.