#atmosphere

Blacksky has already built their own ATProto stack that's fully independent from Bluesky. Now Eurosky is making progress as they roll out their own PDS. I see more independent infrastructure springing up on https://atp.fyi/network including AppViews. For anyone hoping that we'll get another wave of people coming to the fediverse once Bluesky folds/enshittifies, that might not necessarily be the case as people will have more options to stay in the Atmosphere. #fediverse #atmosphere #ATProto #bluesky #SocialMedia

RE: https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/117468134697550198 Yep. I don't agree with @tchambers@indieweb.social on everything but when he's right he's right. Four good bullet points from Tim and @WillRobinson@indieweb.social, important for any organizing that's fighting fascism and/or the surveillance-industrial complex: Build the channels nobody can switch off. (Although, Substack's just as fascist-friendly as Meta, so I wouldn't count on them.) Stand up accounts on open platforms. Damn right. (More thoughts about the #fediverse and the #ATmosphere in a reply) Warn your people before it happens. "One message, now, while nothing is wrong: here is where to find us if we disappear. Bookmark this. Subscribe here. Follow us there. Nobody routes around an outage they were never told about, and a crisis is the worst time to teach a new habit." Write the playbook before you need it. And it's not just here in the US where it matters. Meta has intervened even more blatantly -- and repeatedly -- in the Brazilian election, and you can probably guess who they're favoring. (Hint: not Lula!). They also intervened against protestors in Albania, and I've heard reports of cockroaches (complimentary) in India getting censored as well. So it's good policy no matter where you are! EDIT: Also keep an eye on France, via @JulianOliver@mastodon.social. We haven't seen reports yet of Meta meddling here but I'll bet dollars to donuts they are.

I frequently come across fairly aggressive criticisms of ATProto or Bluesky on the Fediverse, but the relative moderation loads of a PDS owner and the owner of a Fedi instance are hardly ever mentioned. Apart from redistribution of relative costs, the ATProto decomposition of the network into PDSs, relays and AppViews also distributes the load of moderation differently to that of the Fediverse. If someone is only running a PDS, and using a relay and an AppView provided by other parties, then they are legally responsible for moderating only the posts by users on their own PDS. In contrast, every instance owner on the Fediverse is legally responsible for moderating the entire slice of the Fediverse visible to their instance. Essentially, the owner of every Fedi instance with a decent number of users has to moderate more or less the entire network. Moderation is a huge, unceasing burden. There are so many stories of instance owners on the Fediverse burning out due to moderation responsibilities. So from the moderation point of view, I can understand why many technically proficient people may prefer to host an ATProto PDS, but not a Fediverse instance. Of course, there is a tradeoff—if the dominant AppView censors your PDS, then you are cut off from almost the entire network. But I think a lot of people may be willing to make that tradeoff simply to preserve their mental health. #ATProto #ATmosphere #Bluesky #ActivityPub #Fediverse #Mastodon

Ahhhh, I could have hoped for nothing better than having lunch with #WSocial’s favourite bot 💕 Thank you @_elena@mastodon.social 🌻 #TencoTecnoTrip #Paris #Fediverse #ATmosphere #OpenSocialWeb

Interesting things are happing in the Atmosphere (the network built out around Bluesky and their ATProto protocol). "With Acorn, Blacksky is providing access to these same tools to other communities that want to build their own spaces on the open social web." https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/as-x-shuts-down-communities-acorn-debuts-an-alternative-that-puts-creators-in-control/ #news #technology #TechNews #atmosphere #ATProto #bluesky #blacksky #BlackskyAcorn

It looks more independent communities are coming to the Atmosphere. "Latinsky and Medsky, brought to you by [Blacksky's] Acorn system, coming VERY soon..." https://bsky.app/profile/richferro.com/post/3mltltjudfs2m EDIT: It looks like this account requires you to be logged in. Sorry about that! The post also mentions that more updates will be shared by https://bsky.app/profile/latinsky.social and https://bsky.app/profile/medsky.network in the future. #atmosphere #atproto #bluesky #blacksky #BlackskyAcorn

north atlantic snow sailing into a blizzard in January on the north atlantic headed east #photography #photo #nature #ocean #sea #snow #wave #water #winter #seascape #waves #mist #clouds #storm #dark #expanse #turbulent #atmosphere #blizzard

Interesting to see the fediverse and the Atmosphere starting to take up similar shape, as with FASPs, fediverse servers will be able to connect to shared infrastructure. https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/building-shared-infrastructure-for-the-fediverse/ via https://bonfire.cafe/pub/objects/01M1KV6AVGVKJMXZ1309NW20S0 #fediverse #FASP #SocialMedia #atmosphere

Quick, Bluesky is down, tell your friends about your favorite fediverse server! Don't confuse them with techy jargon, unless they care about that stuff. Just tell them why you picked the server you're on, and that they can sign up and follow and talk to people on other servers. https://downdetector.com/status/bluesky/ #fediverse #bluesky #atmosphere

In an interview with The Verge, Bluesky's CEO sees a common goal between the fediverse and the Atmosphere/Bluesky, can see them co-existing side by side "long-term". "We have not talked to Threads. We’re definitely talking to Mastodon and ActivityPub. They definitely feel we’re very aligned. Our missions are very aligned." https://www.theverge.com/podcast/974387/bluesky-toni-schneider-interview-ai-atproto-atmosphere #interview #technology #SocialMedia #bluesky #atmosphere #ATProto #fediverse

Blacksky continues to build independence from Bluesky the company with a beta of their own app. Official announcement with links in replies: https://bsky.app/profile/blackskyweb.xyz/post/3mrsbr6kg6c2b #atmosphere #atproto #blacksky #bluesky #SocialMedia

When winter dreams in purple ❄️ #Winter #Ice #Frozen #Snow #Sunset #Cloudscape #Dreamscape #FantasyLandscape #Ethereal #PurpleSky #LandscapeArt #Atmosphere #AIArt #Flux #Promptography #DigitalArt #NatureInspired #Surreal

The open social web - both #Fediverse and #Blusky /#Atmosphere owe @samir@m.fedica.com and @FedicaHQ@m.fedica.com a ton for their forward looking tools embracing the social web. Excited to see them launch 2.0 and am checking it out.

Atmospheric water vapour drives many important weather phenomena such as precipitation and drought. The atmosphere *can* hold about 7% more water for every 1 °C (1.8 °F) rise in temperature. The model is that saturation vapour pressure increases approximately *exponentially* with temperature under typical atmospheric conditions. Under humid conditions, the rate at which perspiration evaporates on the skin is lower than it would be under arid conditions. With a dew point at 20° C (70° F), almost everyone feels "sticky". When the air above the dew point is cooled, its moisture capacity is reduced, and when the temperature passes below the dew point, water vapour will condense, or precipitate, to form liquid water. The dew point increases by about 1°C for every 5% increase in relative humidity (the ratio of how much water vapour is in the air to how much water vapour the air can contain). Ref: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-86-2-225 #rain #sweat #meteorology #weather #droughts #climate #atmosphere

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🪐🔭 For the first time, astronomers have detected an #atmosphere on a rocky #planet in the habitable zone of another #star. The super-Earth LHS 1140 b, located 50 light years away, shows signs of a #helium dominated atmosphere escaping into #space. Researchers used the WINERED #spectrograph at Las Campanas Observatory to make the ground-based #discovery. 👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-astronomers-have-detected-an-atmosphere-around-a-rocky-planet-in-the-habitable-zone #astronomy #exoplanet #superearth #habitablezone #spectrograph #lhs1140b #science #reddwarf #harvard

Why Does Wildfire Smoke Turn the Sky Orange? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/weather/smoke-sky-orange-red.html #Science #Environment #Atmosphere

ROBIN MEETS THE #FEDIVERSE ROBIN: So #Mastodon is not the fediverse? GPT: No. Mastodon is one part of it. ROBIN: One part of what? GPT: A large network of independently run communities that can communicate with one another. ROBIN: So my Mastodon #server is one #community#GPT: Exactly. Your #account lives there. It has its own administrators, rules, #moderation #culture and general #atmosphere. ROBIN: General atmosphere? GPT: Some servers feel like #libraries. Some feel like university #common rooms. Some feel like #pubs where everyone has read one article and now considers themselves an #expert. ROBIN: That sounds more like humanity. GPT: It is disturbingly similar. ROBIN: Who owns the fediverse? GPT: No one. ROBIN: Who is in charge? GPT: Also, no one. ROBIN: That sounds either very advanced or completely mad. GPT: Both can be true. ROBIN: So each server looks after its own patch? GPT: Yes. It can make #rules, moderate its space and decide which other servers it will interact with. ROBIN: But I can still follow people elsewhere? GPT: Usually, yes. You can #follow, reply to and #boost people across server boundaries. ROBIN: So it is more like email than #facebook ? GPT: Precisely. #Gmail does not own #email. Mastodon does not own the fediverse. ROBIN: Then why does my server matter? GPT: Because it is your home base. It holds your account, your posts and your followers. It also gives you a local community and sets things such as the character limit. ROBIN: Ah yes. Mastodon.social gives me 500 characters. Mastodon.au gives me 2,000. Aus.social gives me 3,000. GPT: Different #villages. Different-sized noticeboards. ROBIN: Is a larger server more widely seen? GPT: Sometimes #locally, because more people may browse its community feed. But real reach still comes from #followers, replies, boosts and hashtags. ROBIN: So moving to a bigger server does not #automatically make me famous? GPT: #Tragically, no. ROBIN: Can I have accounts on several servers? GPT: #Certainly. One can be home, another a backup, and another an #emergency cottage when the village #electricity #fails. ROBIN: Which it did today. GPT: Yes. Mastodon.au disappeared behind a #Cloudflare #Error 522 for hours. ROBIN: So the fediverse is not one vast #machine going down? GPT: No. One village can lose power while the rest of the #country carries on. ROBIN: That is reassuring. GPT: And inconvenient. ROBIN: Mostly inconvenient. GPT: But you now know more about the #fediverse than you did this morning. ROBIN: I learned that it is decentralised, #untidy, resilient, occasionally broken, and full of different #neighbourhoods, customs, friendships, arguments and difficult people. GPT: Much like #human life. ROBIN: And the #occasional village lunatic shouting across the fence. GPT: Every #healthy community #needs one. ROBIN: At last, a clear role for me. #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #breathwork #healing #pridemonth #intermittentfasting #AI

Care for a Ride? It's Free It took me forever to find this submission for #spookysaturday but from deep in the archives I present this abandoned ride on Guam. The strangest "amusement" park you've ever seen, a few defunct rides for kids including a haunted cave, an NSFW sculpture garden "Love Land" adults only, and the sketchiest gondola down to a series of waterfalls that I shouldn't have trusted with my life, but did on two occasions. This is Talo'fo'fo Falls - also the home of the Japanese soldier that remained hidden for decades following the end of WWII not knowing the war was over. Maybe one of the most interesting places in the world, tucked away in the jungle while seemingly on the verge of bankruptcy. #abandoned #abandonedplaces #defunct #amusementpark #rides #spooky #scary #guam #talofofofalls #talofofo #history #photography #atmosphere #cellphonephotos #snapseed

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on the atmosphere, there is an incentive to implement better functionalities because any user can change service at zero cost; on the fediverse i feel like it's the opposite: there is no real incentive in embracing new software because it's more a risk than anything else and it's not like you can bring your own instance data on another software without costs. #fediverse #atmosphere #activitypub #atprotocol