My answer to this isn't technical, it's about power dynamics. Your PDS is the server that puts your data on the internet. You've never needed to think about that because your data has always been on Facebook or Google or Amazon's servers. We're doing the same thing, but billionaire-proofing it.

Our Pollen browser extension is now live on Chrome and Firefox! It's an experimental tool for adding "claims" to images on Bluesky (commentary, provenance, facts) directly attached to the image content itself.

nectar.hypha.coop

the firehose if everyone was just DMing you

Lovely to see @couleurs.bsky.social getting some appreciation.
Thanks @finest.day!

Where do you post from?

Introducing attested.network: Proof of Payment for ATProtocol attested.network is an open spec for decentralized proof of payments on ATProtocol, built on what we learned making atprotofans.com. It formalizes the three-party attestation model and opens it up for any app to implement.

Writing about attested.network, an open spec for decentralized proof of payments on ATProtocol. It builds on what we learned making atprotofans.com. Draft is up and feedback is welcome.

Planting flowers and a forest walk - The Good Work I've been thinking so much about OpenWeb, OpenProtocols, and decentralized federated platforms like Mastodon and Bluesky lately that my brain has become moderately decentralized itself. 🙃 But more on ...

Anyone looking for a breath of fresh air in the Atmosphere should try @anisota.net by @dame.is and @hypha.coop's spores.garden. It's a wonderful calming experience.

Everyone else, of course, too. 🌿

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Navigating Media Publishing in an Agentic World Surveying the landscape of standards and protocols that allow publishers to get paid in an agentic web.

Written media, from this bluesky post to the front page of the Toronto Star, will soon be consumed primarily via AI mediators. We believe this can be a time of great opportunity for media publishers, so we put together this short survey of the evolving landscape to help you navigate the moment.

Bonjour tout le monde!

Find similar images across the atmosphere

@hypha.coop is at #AtmosphereConf and launching Nectar, a new API that allows searching for similar images across the Atmosphere. Use it to track reposts, make image annotations, watch social trends, and more.

Learn more here: nectar.hypha.coop/

@atls.city !set CA-QC-Montreal

Exploring the Frontier of Feeds - The Open Garden Reorienting distribution and monetization in the attention economy.

Custom feeds are the singular theory of action for growing the open social web and reorienting distribution and monetization in the attention economy.

I don't have all the answers, but the future of social is becoming clearer everyday.

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We built you a garden 🌼 A web of interconnected personal sites built on ATProto for people who want to curate their digital space.

Best explanation is here

TLDR; curate a personal website from your ATProto data. Collect spores and plant some flowers.

We built you a garden 🌼 A web of interconnected personal sites built on ATProto for people who want to curate their digital space.

Best explanation is here

TLDR; curate a personal website from your ATProto data. Collect spores and plant some flowers.

Green spore-like shapes arranged horizontally on a beige background. Each has a circular center with overlapping, irregular petal forms in varying shades of green. The middle shape includes a short dashed line extending downward, while the others appear as layered botanical forms

Sunday spore update:

I collect greenish spores

Banner showing a square icon of a simple line-drawn flower, the name “v______”, the subtitle “ecotonal gardener,” and a horizontal row of small, differently colored abstract flower icons across the top.

You're invited to visit my garden and steal all my special spores.

spores.garden/charlebois.i...

some of the special spores I saw yesterday on spores.garden

Here’s one way to see the spores travel through the network

good spore explainer for all gardeners in the atmosphere

If you’ve been wondering what spores.garden is, this one’s for you.

Thanks to @literaryarsonist.press for this new spores.garden feature that enables adding posts to your garden by simply pasting their URL.

You can see this very post blooming at the top of my garden: spores.garden/@charlebois....

Yes, I can confirm the massive blur effect on top of the dense isoline contours is the culprit

Thanks for the report. That definitely shouldn’t feel laggy. I’ll look into performance and see how to improve it. I created this issue for tracking.
Appreciate you testing it.

Thanks for flagging this. I just opened this issue on tangled and will have a look this afternoon

Thanks for flagging this. Appreciate the report. I’ll take a look and see how I can smooth it out on mobile. I just created this issue

spores.garden social card

Your garden renders beautifully on Bluesky now.
Also, there’s a spore in my garden with your name on it.

https://spores.garden/@charlebois.info

Screenshot of a pastel-purple webpage showing a grid of 43 colorful flower tiles labeled “43 Gardeners” at the top. Each square tile contains a stylized flower in different shapes and colors, with a username beneath it. The layout forms a multi-row gallery, visually representing individual users as unique flowers in a shared digital garden.

very nice to see you tending your spores.garden

can't wait to explore your gardens

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