This week's Bluesky and ATProto news - ATmosphere Report #114 - First EU atproto conf with [@ahoy.eu](
Bluesky Social
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 ) - Verification on Bluesky with checkmarks - [@stream.place](
Bluesky Social
Streamplace (@stream.place)
Solving video for everybody forever. Starting with live video on the AT Protocol. Check us out at https://stream.place Follow @iame.li for dev str...
 ) gets 500k in funding - A 50k grant from [@freeourfeeds.com](
Bluesky Social
Free Our Feeds (@freeourfeeds.com)
We're a campaign to focus attention and resources on building information technologies that serve the interests of people over companies. It's tim...
 ) for developing IndieSky with dev community [fediversereport.com/atmosphere-r...](
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ATmosphere Report – #114
Bluesky launches a checkmark verification system, streaming software Streamplace gets 500k USD in funding, and much more!
 ) [ATmosphere Report – #114](
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ATmosphere Report – #114
Bluesky launches a checkmark verification system, streaming software Streamplace gets 500k USD in funding, and much more!
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maybe zuck had the exact same problem as shreyan and thats why he considered wiping everyones friend connections [techcrunch.com/2025/04/15/m...](
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Mark Zuckerberg once considered deleting all your Facebook friends | TechCrunch
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg once considered deleting everyone's Facebook friends in an effort to boost the social network's cultural relevan...
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shreyan (@shreyanjain.net)
getting annoyed with myself for continuing to be mutuals with people i hate. i should just have the courage to hit the unfollow
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they should invent coriander seeds that look less like thyme seeds
wrote about the latest fediverse drama, and how it shows that picking your home server is actually difficult: the choice has meaningful consequences but it is virtually impossible to get the all relevant information beforehand [fediversereport.com/fediverse-re...](
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Fediverse Report – #114
Instance drama, with some reflection on how federation could be improved on the fediverse.
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Bluesky Social
Connected Places (@fediversereport.com)
Fediverse Report #114 - This week's #fediverse news: - Drama around a Fosstodon moderator, leading to the admins of the Fosstodon server stepping ...
 [Fediverse Report – #114](
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Fediverse Report – #114
Instance drama, with some reflection on how federation could be improved on the fediverse.
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me logging in on mastodon this morning reading decentralisation discourse RE:
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Laurens (@laurenshof.online)
Resetting my atproto brain after an amazing #ahoy25 conference with some art at the Kunsthalle
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Resetting my atproto brain after an amazing #ahoy25 conference with some art at the Kunsthalle https://shimeji.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd&cid=bafkreighzuseazcbwjbbcivpmf53dyv63avpl44s2nts4pm4lo3wxdw23q https://shimeji.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd&cid=bafkreib4ehyh7ehqjet4fi3txr5z6vjqhkju5vqphzmdnjogo4qbvdzi64 https://shimeji.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd&cid=bafkreied7oq3qntplxoyatxvbvxxhisxnidh3c4m5ueoypypy6fkv7cray https://shimeji.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd&cid=bafkreid7vnpwb6zk4ky7pautem7l2hvc5n66k6ckl5vbqz43vqtk2za7we
Right probably should’ve mentioned earlier that this means there’s no Bluesky Report for this week lol RE:
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Kuba Suder πŸ‡΅πŸ‡±πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ (@mackuba.eu)
@laurenshof.online doing the keynote! #ahoy25
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Whats is the meaningful distinction to say that it was the NYT and not bsky who verified Kate? Bsky had to assign NYT as a trusted verifier, with the expectation that the NYT would verify people like Kate. So whats the difference that it was the NYT who pressed the button and not bsky? RE:
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Paul Frazee (@pfrazee.com)
Here we go! @kateconger.com was verified - not by Bluesky but by the NYTimes, one of the "trusted verifiers" Gonna keep saying it: a healthy digit...
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What were the design considerations to go for app.bsky.graph.verification vs com.atproto.graph.verification ? RE:
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Bluesky (@bsky.app)
We’re introducing a new layer of verification on Bluesky β€” a user-friendly, easily recognizable blue check. In addition to account verificatio...
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Bluesky Report - this week's news: - custom feed builder [@graze.social](
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Graze Social (@graze.social)
Own your algorithm. πŸ‘‰ https://graze.social/ βš™οΈ Need product support? Skip the DMs: https://tinyurl.com/3hcabn8v ✨ Building something c...
 ) raises 1M USD - Deer Social is a fork of the official Bluesky app, giving people the option to use the app with various features turned off - a paper on the large impact of Starter Packs [fediversereport.com/bluesky-repo...](
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Bluesky Report – #112
Custom feed builder Graze raises 1M USD, and Deer is a new fork of the main Bluesky app.
 ) [Bluesky Report – #112](
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Bluesky Report – #112
Custom feed builder Graze raises 1M USD, and Deer is a new fork of the main Bluesky app.
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