One of the action items out of #PfP✨London was the need for #Wordpress and #Drupal plugins to make publishing @standard.site docs to the ATmosphere easy. @tylerjfisher.com and then @pfefferle.org gave us a WP plugin, and now @affinitybridge.bsky.social a Drupal one 🙌 This is progress folks! 💪
Here is a Drupal module that implements standard.site and will backfill posts from your Drupal CMS to the atmosphere. Big thanks to Automatic and @pfefferle.org for the ref impl
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Am vergangenen Wochenende fand auf dem Uni-Campus in Vancouver die #ATmosphereConf statt. Dabei gab es auch einen Themenbereich zu #Journalismus und #Zivilgesellschaft. @protocolsforpublishers.com empfiehlt hier ein paar der spannendsten Vorträge und Diskussionen zu diesen Themen: 👇
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Today, we’re launching social websites, a new kind of online destination. These blend posts from Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon and more, plus YouTube, podcasts and your favorite publications to create community sites based around the things that matter to you.
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Possibly of interest for our PfPeeps in #london
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@edsaperia.bsky.social @atproto.london @monkchips.com @tristanwerkmeister.com @marcelakunova.bsky.social
Screen shot of Surf.social showing a search bar and featured feeds from The Verge, Wired, 404 Media and more
Today we're also introducing surf.social to let anyone surf the whole social web including over 130K feeds that bring together people, podcasts, YouTube channels, newsletters, blogs and images for whatever you're into.
Reporting from #ATmosphereConf
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On March 29th, we held an in-person meeting to check in with the community and discuss potential updates to the standard.site spec.
A huge thank you to @cozylittle.house for putting together a detailed summary of everything we discussed.
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Black background with title "Comments are Broken" (Comments highlighted in blue). Text in blue and white reads: "Created for engagement and not impact / Continued online toxicity and lack of facilitation. / We're losing control over how we engage our own audience / Inherited bad UX from social media. / As publishers - we have a role to play"
Black background with italicized text "Real world learnings" at top. Left side shows white text "Learn from what works in the real world." Right side displays Matrix movie still of Morpheus wearing sunglasses with white text "WELCOME" and "TO THE REAL WORLD."
Black background with italicized text "Impact vs engagement" at top. Left side shows white text "Create what helps people learn, exposed to different perspectives, get more informed and smarter!" Right side displays cartoon of two people at a table with thought bubble reading "BUFFERING... BUFFERING... BUFFERING..."
Black background with italicized text "New UX patterns that work for you" at top. Left side shows white text "Don't inherit bad ui/ux from social media." Right side displays simplified interface mockup showing user icon, chat bubbles, prohibition symbol, and engagement icons (heart, thumbs up) with orange notification badges.
Gitesh Gohel, Chief Product Officer at The Atlantic, explains why the comments section is failing both news orgs and their audiences – and he suggests nine ways that media orgs can reinvigorate meaningful discussion among readers.
We’ll share some of our favorites below!
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Jonathan presents a slide with Goals for An atproto-based community notes architecture that is: • Pretty Decentralized: Limit Power that can be Accumulated by One Entity • Transparent • Algorithmic Freedom • Composability • Mix and match moderation apps, algorithms, labelers, etc • Generalized Moderation Decision-Making Protocol • Other Social Networks
A demo of @bluenotes.social a Community Notes (or peer moderation) solution for #atproto by @jonathanwarden.com
Here are some of the goals:
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Good morning #ATmosphereConf! Welcome to Day 2 (or 5 in some cases 😅). @jimray.locket.computer is hosting a convo with @aendra.com and @tylerjfisher.com about How and Why News Orgs Should build on #atproto
Aendra presents a slide: A Brief and Incomplete Recent History of Algorithmic F*ckery
For the last journalism talk of the #ATmosphereConf Media & Civics track today is @aendra.com bringing the 🔥 🔥 🔥
Some ideas 💡 from @joe.germuska.com and @werd.io
- media membership card on your PDS
- improve resilience against censorship
- newsrooms to create and share feeds for good journalism
- algos to recommend permissioned posts
- more Bristol Cables!
#ATmosphereConf
Joe with a slide showing declining audience trust in newsrooms, falling from 60% to just 38% from 2022 to 2026
In our last leg of Media & Civics track today @joe.germuska.com (and the disembodied voice of @werd.io) present on why a Free Press needs Free Protocols
#ATmosphereConf
Glenn shows all the various communities in Oakland that got together to build a shared calendar commons
Community calendaring in Oakland on #atproto with @pop.pe #ATmosphereConf
Hey #atmosphereconf we just proved that the right feed algorithms can reduce political polarization. And now we're building open-source recommender infrastructure that you can use for your ATProto app.
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Get in the waitlist here: attie.ai
Paul addresses a big crowd with the quote “People, not platforms”
The #ATmosphereConf keynote with @pfrazee.com quoting @quillmatiq.com
The opportunities and risks of open networks. Food for thought for designers and developers
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Ted, Justin and Lauren seated while Ted talks into a microphone
Conversation with @knowtheory.net @bankonjustin.com and @laurensaks.bsky.social about News Creators #ATmosphereConf
Joe, Josh, and Nate sitting at the front of the room
Panel discussing the Creator economy with @joebasser.com from @sprk.so on the mic
#ATmosphereConf
slide “Technology has democratized access. It has not democratized economic value.”
“Technology has democratized access.
It has not democratized economic value.”
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Natalie sits at her computer gesturing with a slide in the background: “The Faustian Bargain - trading Agency for Scale.”
Thinking through the economics of Sovereign Media with @eclecticcapital.bsky.social in the Media & Civics track at #ATmosphereConf
To learn more about the Atlas, check out our interview of Justin protocolsforpublishers.com/independent-...
From the back of a room filled with people sitting on chairs we can see a woman standing at a podium and two large presentation screens with an illustration of kelp holdfasts (drawn by Erin’s daughter)
For the second year @kissane.myatproto.social opens #ATmosphereConf with a deep meditation on what is going on in the world, and why we are here (and how kelp is awesome!)
You will find Chad MCing the #ATmosphereConf Media & Civics track if you want to connect about protocolsforpublishers.com ✨
On Friday 3/27, I’ll be participating in a half-day @knightcolumbia.org event —“Can Middleware Save Social Media?”—at @pressclubdc.bsky.social in D.C. and online. We’ll explore the future of middleware as a tool that could reshape social media and #freespeech online. RSVP: bit.ly/3P3Uf6M
This shit is why I’m a Journalism On ATProto extremist. We need to own the distribution layer.
yay it works! go to this #ghost blog and you can login with your Bluesky OAuth! It will politely only ask you for identity. But when you comment, you have an option to grant scopes to comment as yourself and it syncs back and forth!
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