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Evelyn
@chipnick.com
👩🏾‍💻 Head of Platform at a startup
👵🏾 In tech since before the cloud
🏳️‍🌈🌌 Part of NorthSky Social

Skeeting about Platforms and Cloud stuff.
https://chipnick.com
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For those interested in paying for a platform that will actively protects its users, here's where you can pay us (Northsky)
A year ago nobody knew how to do a migration. Today everyone’s got a cousin who’s running a PDS they can hop on when things go south.
🥇🥈🥉 Top 10 open & community PDSes right now (unless I'm missing any, then let me know!)

(the numbers might not always be up to date, especially since my scanning script is kinda broken rn, but I ran it manually now)
February 12, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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Tbh, I want a Zelda movie that has Zelda switching between Shiek and Zelda and straight murking folks.

Link can hang out in the background.
people want a Zelda movie to be "what if Ocarina of Time was LotR" when what it should be is an 80-minute anime OVA released in the early 90's with the weirdest plot you've ever seen and at least one original character who was so endearing that it physically hurts they aren't in any of the games
February 12, 2026 at 6:09 AM
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Just over 2 months ago invites were sent out to welcome users to Northsky who used our migration tool to migrate. Throughout hundreds of migrations we've been fixing bugs and improving UX for a smoother experience to the point that we're now ready to release the source as we always intended.
February 11, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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That makes four different groups all digging into private data models. #ATproto has got the juice.
February 11, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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I agree with sporks space design decisions for a new chat platform - federation is a misfeature for hosted chat platforms (use SSO), E2EE is a misfeature for public channels (use apps built for E2EE), voice chats are a space not an event (drop in not scheduled).
February 10, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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Here’s a little background on why we’re building u-haul.
I should have published something sooner so that people don’t have to speculate on the reasons, but we’re all wearing 5 hats these days at @eurosky.social and there is just too much stuff to do in parallel.
GitHub - eurosky-social/u-haul: ATProto account migration tool with a simple web interface. Built with Rails 7. Includes progress tracking, encrypted credentials, and background job processing via Sid...
ATProto account migration tool with a simple web interface. Built with Rails 7. Includes progress tracking, encrypted credentials, and background job processing via Sidekiq. - eurosky-social/u-haul
github.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Anyone need a steam deck lcd screen?

Replaced my son’s and turns out it wasn’t broken
February 10, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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Anyone literate in Arabic willing to volunteer some time doing basic transcription of images? I need to redo a bunch of graphics for Napata and I’m unfortunately illiterate and will not use a llm for this.

I’ve got a spreadsheet prepared with everything.
February 8, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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そろそろこっちでも晒しておくか。atproto.com和訳、感想募集中。 https://github.com/yamarten/atproto-website/pull/1
February 10, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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We're now inviting Vancouver locals to help volunteer for ATmosphereConf 2026!
Join ATmosphereConf 2026 as an In-Person Volunteer
Apply to be a Volunteer for ATmosphereConf 2026 in Vancouver
news.atmosphereconf.org
January 27, 2026 at 1:17 AM
I’ve got cousins who are getting flyers from the uni on what to do if ICE shows up, a parent who works right by the ICE office telling me about vans coming and going and family scattered because everyone wants to control the port of Sudan.
Sometimes the work feels like nothing because of this.
February 10, 2026 at 2:20 AM
I’m curious if anyone has used rocket.chat, matrix or similar instead of discord
Rocket.Chat | Secure CommsOS™ for Mission-Critical Operations
Centralize real-time messaging, voice, video, AI, and apps for secure, reliable and unified communication among internal and external stakeholders.
rocket.chat
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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Our cooperative member @ripperoni.com stood up a pronoun labeler after a popular community one shut down.

We have a different long-term solution in mind for our App, but this is a great solution for now!
Click into this thread to choose your displayed pronouns
February 9, 2026 at 6:33 AM
Started working on moving napata to astros and holy shit the dev mode is so nice.
February 9, 2026 at 1:55 PM
When questioned Gollum will state he was just there for the fresh fish and wasn’t aware what happened on the estate.
At the current rate, by the end of the year the UK will go through over 50 prime ministers, each one worse than the last, until the last one is literally just Gollum devouring raw fish in an abandoned coal mine under Wales. He will also be in the Epstein files.
February 9, 2026 at 11:01 AM
I love that within a day of the pronouns labeler going down every third party client added pronouns support.

Meanwhile PBC is 😶
February 9, 2026 at 10:25 AM
I always forgot one thing when traveling, usually a power brick or toothbrush. Figured out while on the train that it was the passport.
February 9, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Black folks in tech are a beautiful sight
Mom taught me not to say 'please' because then you have to say 'thank you', and we don't say 'thank you', we say 'fuck you'
Imagine begging Bluesky for features, having your PRs sitting unmerged and ignored for months, and then turning around and saying that EYEEE am the centralizing influence around here.
February 8, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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Just a quick update—you can now set your pronouns in Catbird!

These are a part of your Bluesky profile record and will be visible across all clients that support the field.
February 8, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Looks like all the clients are adding pronouns field, <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xg4h4n7w5mh3m4uoi27me4hh" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@catbird.blue just did.
February 8, 2026 at 7:11 PM
leading by example
Protocol compliant 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
astrolabe.at/at/rude1.bla...
astrolabe
astrolabe.at
February 8, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Need an uncle who will bury me with fire poetry to study and work hard.
Palestinian Uncles doing freestyle poetry battles coming with some of the hardest lines I’ve heard in a long time.
February 8, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Everyone’s upset about @rude1.blacksky.team private data implementation. Just wait for @transrights.northsky.social to release theirs.

Haters will be frothing at the mouth.
February 8, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Anyone literate in Arabic willing to volunteer some time doing basic transcription of images? I need to redo a bunch of graphics for Napata and I’m unfortunately illiterate and will not use a llm for this.

I’ve got a spreadsheet prepared with everything.
February 8, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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Tipping point for the white moderates.
US Marshals, acting on behalf of the DOJ in Memphis, TN, kicked a dog during an arrest, leaving it with a broken rib.
February 7, 2026 at 9:35 AM