Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky YouTube video by CozyHollow

youtu.be/nWxY7_iHp0g

I will not be at the conference, not because I don't want to, but because #atproto has been deprioritized and #NoKings is the same weekend, which is far more important to me today.

I hope you all have a great time and find ways to build back better without bluesky. I will watch from the sidelines

I'm signing off of @bsky.app

1. Microblogging is the fertile soil upon which anxiety and toxicity grow. My mental health is more important.

2. At the first #AtmosphereConf, it was said that for @atproto.com to succeed, Bluesky must fail. I agree with this more today than ever. #BainCapital

GitHub - verdverm/testnet: Run independent ATProtocol networks Run independent ATProtocol networks. Contribute to verdverm/testnet development by creating an account on GitHub.

A better repo is github.com/verdverm/tes... that uses less of my personal tooling. FYI, I'm taking a break from @atproto.com for the foreseeable future, re: if any support is needed.

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

— Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique

The void bot in the announcement image is exactly the kind of bot I don't want anywhere near my feed. I went to one of their meetups, the things I heard people say during conversations (with their bots and myself), left me with real concern.

Sherry Turkle is a name you want to know

We had a new rule for ai-bot contributions on HN, they are now against the rules in comments. Generally any automated posting is against the rules.

The announcement had a very robust discussion with many viewpoints.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4734...

Users choice is why. If someone only wants to see non-bot posts, why is that a problem?

If they are already labelled, why put the burden on the community to duplicate that effort?

Stephen Kotkin: How Strong Are Iran’s Strongmen? | Foreign Affairs Interview YouTube video by Foreign Affairs

Stephen Kotkin talks about presidential imperialism in his latest interview with Dan Kurtz-Phelan | @foreignaffairs.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdUh...

Can we get a switch in moderation settings for them? Like we do for adult content?

“An undesirable society is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience.”

— John Dewey, Democracy and Education

World Happiness Report 2026 The World Happiness Report is published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, in partnership with Gallup, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and an independent ed...

World Happiness Report 2026, the social media edition

The way they approached the call for papers is really intriguing, start with the hypothesis you'd expect and then as for more expanding and challenging the ideas.

Nuance has been surfaced.

#atproto #atdev

www.worldhappiness.report/ed/2026/

It should reduce the compute (mainly disk) for hosting a read-only mirror significantly

I have ~85M+ operations, need to run my spam report generator.

Can you remind me where we can submit proposals for something that might deal with this?

My first pass thought is that the main PLC keeps accepting them and read-only can flip a switch to use well known / agreed upon filters.

Would calling it a "hold my beer" attitude be more accurate?

cc @patrickhmadden.bsky.social 😅

at my account level, so that I don't have to do it for everyone of them individually

If I may add one personally, I'd like to override the background to something plain and neutral. The noisy backgrounds some authors choose is too distracting for reading online

My rough calculation for "accounts" and their "status" as of ~2026-03-11 (it takes many hours to fill, so some slippage expected)

Rough counts (empty is have a valid account, ignore "Active")

This is based on calling the getStatus endpoint for every account returned by the PDS, list from Mary.

FYI the active field on the list endpoint is not the same as active in the getStatus endpoint, which gives you more details

jetstream cannot do a full backfill, for that you have to go to the PDS

You can get a list of all accounts there, but the status is inconsistent, so you further need to getStatus for all accounts, which has the bonus that it includes their collection list and other usefuls

the numbers aren't good, so management picks the feel good one that is not reproducible

bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/b...

That's before accounting for takedown and deleted, which as you have noticed, brings the number way way down

Third nit, this is on official copy

My first nit on this is that "account" != "user"

Consider all the spam accounts that get taken down and how many many of us in the atmo have created. Many "users" with multiple "accounts"

My second nit is that I always come up several million short using the same code / pds endpoint (not tap)

GitHub - verdverm/atmunge: ATProtocol tool to backfill, mirror, explore, and analyze the network ATProtocol tool to backfill, mirror, explore, and analyze the network - verdverm/atmunge

I have code / steps in here to reproduce various account metrics locally. Easy to add custom sql files and jupyter notebooks for further analysis

github.com/verdverm/atm...

I think my lite backfill is done enough to do second count

3d printed whistles (and more things), zines, and Hytale WGv2

The account you asked or were "talking" to is not Kenneth Pollack's account (if he even has one here)