Being critical of something you're a part of is how you avoid being in a cult.

when i see a site where all the buttons and headers start with an emoji...........................

This is going to change my life

Working Discord link: discord.gg/MyBgdDr3GK

Horrific

Happy birthday! Aries szn!!

If anyone’s new to germ from #atmosphereconf, lmk how it’s going for you!

Happy to take questions comments concerns and bug reports, on germ, on here, or on discord: discord.gg/ynbVSknK

🫣🫣

You too! You (and open social and overcommitted and everything else you do) are so cool!!!

Germs on germs on germ

Horrific

Dreamy🥰🥰

I miss everyone can u guys germ me

So great to meet you Darrell!!

HAHA

Blacksky-only posts would not be subject to a tool like Attie.

I wanted to try the little donut holes sooo bad

Doxxed in the alt text

enclose.horse A puzzle game about enclosing horses.

enclose.horse Day 91
💎 PERFECT! 💎 100%

Fans will be excited to hear that I actually went to bed before finding the ideal solution

A couple of people posing for a selfie

Germ x Blacksky x Eurosky x Bluesky

#AtmosphereConf ❤️

@germnetwork.com, @blackskyweb.xyz, @eurosky.social, @bsky.app

habitat's mission 1. lower the barrier of entry for who can build the social internet • Building a fully functioning "app" should be as easy as creating a website • Developers shouldn't need to store user data in order to provide

I’m so excited to see @habitat.network grow

@offline.arushibandi.com killing it

100% agree. Curious what the right balance to strike is

I like to clear all my dots, when I can!

Cirrus (single-user, serverless PDS) by @mk.gg has gotta be one of the coolest things I’ve seen this weekend. And the implications of hibernating websockets…… 🫨🫨🫨🫨🫨 #atconference #atconf

Yes: Affirmative Consent as a Theoretical Framework for Understanding and Imagining Social Platforms | Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Huuugely recommend reading this paper @tessa.germnetwork.com referenced in her talk: “Yes: Affirmative Consent as a Theoretical Framework for Understanding and Imagining Social Platforms” by Jane Im et al #atconference #atconf

dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

See you all at @tessa.germnetwork.com’s talk Consent Before Cryptography at 2pm in great hall south!!

Having thoroughly enjoyed @brittanyellich.com's talk I'm wondering if @opensocial.community might offer an opportunity for community-based app discovery/recs. Maybe a group could determine which apps they recommend to new members? (Can you download apps from within other apps?)

Slide from Rudy's presentation. Lesson 4: The Cold Start Isn't a Solved Problem. There's a 4x3 grid of popular atproto apps.

The beauty of atproto is that there isn't a set suite of apps. And yet, I think newbies would appreciate a suite! Rudy made a really great point about discoverability being one of the major issues here.

Also, I'll say this -- it's nice when the apps link to each other. Being able to open your Germ DMs from a button on someone's Blacksky profile is so much nicer than needing to switch apps manually. And the context carries over automatically, which rocks. Wondering what other app links make sense.