Once you dial it in, it’s SUCH a healthier social experience

A screenshot showing the Surf app on three phone backgrounds, showcasing Rolling Stone Politics, The Oregonian, and Film Feed.

We’ve partnered with incredible publishers and creators to bring this to life, including @theverge.com, @404media.co, @wired.com, @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social, @taylorlorenz.bsky.social, @yorush.bsky.social, and @davidimel.com. Each is building a space with their own voice, community and vibe.

Nice to meet you guys!

Bluesky is looking for its MySpace moment I’m currently in Vancouver for ATmosphereConf 2026, surrounded by people who care deeply about things like data portability and unparalleled seismic activity on the Alaskan coast. If that sounds weird...

Wrote about ATmosphereConf and Attie, Bluesky's new feed creation experiment!

www.davidimel.com/newsletter/b...

(P.S.), formatting on my Ghost site keeps breaking, so it I also published it on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/davidime...

They get overlooked everywhere!!! 😂 But I guess not too bad as I've been to like 30 shows over my lifetime lol

Oop, sorry. Everything Goes Numb. Still very hard to find.

I’m jealous - this is the one vinyl I don’t have

Here's what Attie looks like

This feels a bit like Bluesky is looking for its MySpace moment - trying to make social media easy to manipulate and experience the way you want. Hopefully if people can format their feeds in a way that feels like home, they'll actually like being on social instead of being addicted to it

Attie will let you publish your feed you make directly to your Bluesky. Paul showed a demo where he asked Attie to remove the handles on his feed and only show people's names. Attie can modify the UI of Bluesky and other programs on ATProto and make it look how you want.

At ATmosphereCon @jay.bsky.team and @pfrazee.com just announced a new app called Attie, an agentic social feed builder that will automatically build a feed for you on ATProto with natural language.

You can just tag right now!

Join filmfeed.surf.social and use #filmfeed across the social web to contribute 😇

I’m AT ATMosphereConf 2026

Writing podcast notes at a bar and really wishing I had that old Samsung Tri-fold right now.

#vintagetech

I definitely would have worn brown if I thought this was gonna happen 😅 But at least it's for our St. Patrick's Day episode! lol

Consistently blown away at how many pitches I get daily from people who think journalism and podcasts are just a way to get CEOs more visibility

“Stop talking about the dam chip! Why are all the nerds talking about the chip inside the phone??”

I am trying every week

Uhhhhh

Update from the ”We’re not authoritarians” crowd: www.axios.com/2026/02/27/a...

A supply chain risk for not building autonomous weapons and mass U.S. surveillance systems RIGHT NOW. Give me a break.

We should be a lot more worried about the DoD / Anthropic fiasco n the last couple of weeks, a power war has been brewing between the U.S. Department of Defense and Anthropic, the company that makes the Claude chatbot. The gist of the situation is this: In July 2...

New post about the Anthropic/DoD fiasco:

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Yeah we're issuing an update this week

Honestly it's way more like reddit though lol

Inb4 he sends a cease and desist for using the word ‘book’ for a social network

ICE out of NYC protest tonight

getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys

Don’t threaten me with a good time

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If you don’t think Larry Ellison / Oracle and the other Trump-friendlies who took over TikTok US are going to suppress the ever-loving hell out of your algorithm, you’re wrong. Don’t give them that power.