Resources & Useful Links

• Blue skies ahead. Social media's quiet user revolution

  Insightful analysis of the new social media landscape, mainly about the ATProto ecosystem, but also mentioning Mastodon and the Fediverse. A very good first read to understand the situation

• Bluesky's CEO on the future of social media

  SXSW talk with Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky PBC

• A world without Caesars: How the ATProto community is rebuilding the web to return power to the people

  An analysis of the the first ATProto community gathering

• At SXSW, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber pokes fun at Mark Zuckerberg with Latin phrase T-shirt

  The 'gossip' article about how Jay Graber sends a message to Zuckerberg with her t-shirt choice

• Bluesky's quest to build nontoxic social media

  Long read by The New Yorker about Jay Graber and Bluesky

• An internet of many autonomous communities

  The blog post of Rudy Fraser's Atmosphere Conference talk. Rudy Fraser is the creator of Blacksky, building ATProto infrastructure and community for Black people.

• Web Without Walls

  Dan Abramov explains the technical philosophy and building blocks of ATProto at a developer conference. It is also understandable for a non-technical audience and Dan is a great storyteller.

• A conceptual model of ATProto and ActivityPub

  A comparison between ATProto and ActivityPub and their basic assumptions. This website is also a great resource to keep up with both ATProto and Activitypub, especially if you subscribe to the newsletter

• My top Bluesky feature requests for 2024

  Interesting comparison between Bluesky and Mastodon from one of the most prolific LGBTQ voices in this ecosystem

• ATProto Ethos

  Basic principles and philosophy of the ATProtocol

• Resources for choosing instances

  Some tips on how to get started on the Fediverse and which server/instance to choose

• Starter Packs

  Starter packs for the Fediverse

• A New HOPE (2022): ActivityPub Four Years Later: The Good, the Bad, and the Fedi

  Talk on the basic principles of ActivityPub and the Fediverse

• Fork it! It's time for a Mastodon hard fork

  Jon voices their discontent about Mastodon's safety and proposes a split

• Why a hard-fork of Mastodon isn’t the way

  Emily disagrees with Jon and points out what kind of balance act it is to run an open source project

• Mastodon Exit Interview

  A critical article about Mastodon

• Free our Feeds

  A fundraising project to build a more democratic social media ecosystem

• The “De” In “Decentralization” Stands For “Democracy”

  Mike Masnick, one of the most interesting internet thinkers, talks about the decentralisation of technology as a democratic prerequisite

• A New Social

  An organisation that wants to liberate people's networks from their platforms. They build Bridgyfed, a tool to post on both Bluesky and the Fediverse

• Let's fund the open web

  Some ideas on how to fund social web projects

• Web5: The Next Generation of Decentralized Web

  Some theory about the decentralised web