Emelia
@thisismissem.social
Corruptress of protocols, working on trust & safety tech, open-source contributor. You've probably used tech I've contributed to. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 🇩🇪
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Emelia
@thisismissem.social
· Apr 24
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So a not too well known thing about me: I'm the co-author of the Client ID Metadata Documents internet draft that Bluesky / AT Proto uses for OAuth.
This document came about due to my work on Mastodon's OAuth implementation.
If you'd like to support my work: support.thisismissem.social
This document came about due to my work on Mastodon's OAuth implementation.
If you'd like to support my work: support.thisismissem.social
This is an absolutely fantastic article by @laurenshof.online
connectedplaces.online/where-does-c...
connectedplaces.online/where-does-c...
Where Does Community Live?
ActivityPub and ATProto both promise to rebuild social life online, but they answer the question of where community actually forms in fundamentally different ways. Protocol design is institutional des...
connectedplaces.online
February 18, 2026 at 11:43 PM
This is an absolutely fantastic article by @laurenshof.online
connectedplaces.online/where-does-c...
connectedplaces.online/where-does-c...
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People with opinions on how Blacksky implements permissioned posts should engage with the ideas Nick lays out here with the same level of seriousness.
New blog post is up! When we talk about controlled data on ATProtocol, we focus on users and who they grant access to. But there's always a third party: the applications that store, relay, and render the data.
Permissioned data is a love triangle
Permissioned data is a love triangle between the user, the identities they grant permissions to, and the applications everyone uses to view controlled data. We don't need to change or reinvent the protocol to have it, because ATProtocol already supports it.
ngerakines.leaflet.pub
February 18, 2026 at 10:02 PM
People with opinions on how Blacksky implements permissioned posts should engage with the ideas Nick lays out here with the same level of seriousness.
This is really cool to see: atproto.com/blog/plc-rep...
PLC Read Replicas - AT Protocol
Introducing a self-hostable did:plc read-replica service
atproto.com
February 18, 2026 at 10:03 PM
This is really cool to see: atproto.com/blog/plc-rep...
Some good improvements to the new AT Protocol documentation website: we've split the AppView and Relay sections in both Self-Hosting and The AT Stack to more accurately represent these components.
atproto.com/guides/the-a...
atproto.com/guides/the-a...
The AT Stack - AT Protocol Docs - AT Protocol
Components of the AT Protocol Stack.
atproto.com
February 18, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Some good improvements to the new AT Protocol documentation website: we've split the AppView and Relay sections in both Self-Hosting and The AT Stack to more accurately represent these components.
atproto.com/guides/the-a...
atproto.com/guides/the-a...
Did anyone else just get signed out of Bluesky?
February 18, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Did anyone else just get signed out of Bluesky?
What the...? I just received money from the finanzamt (tax office) for 2023's VAT refund, which means it took them a year to process my last filing
(I couldn't file for two years because they wouldn't respond to letters asking for a VAT & Tax number, because I thought my old one ceased activity)
(I couldn't file for two years because they wouldn't respond to letters asking for a VAT & Tax number, because I thought my old one ceased activity)
February 18, 2026 at 3:43 PM
What the...? I just received money from the finanzamt (tax office) for 2023's VAT refund, which means it took them a year to process my last filing
(I couldn't file for two years because they wouldn't respond to letters asking for a VAT & Tax number, because I thought my old one ceased activity)
(I couldn't file for two years because they wouldn't respond to letters asking for a VAT & Tax number, because I thought my old one ceased activity)
I'm in quite the thread over on the fediverse, and it's pretty funny to see them throwing around phrases like "billionaire free social media" when over the past two years major fediverse projects have needed billionaires and multi-millionaires more than ever to fund themselves.
February 18, 2026 at 10:50 AM
I'm in quite the thread over on the fediverse, and it's pretty funny to see them throwing around phrases like "billionaire free social media" when over the past two years major fediverse projects have needed billionaires and multi-millionaires more than ever to fund themselves.
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Look I'm just saying that there are other incredibly transformative things you could do for our species for a billion dollars that we desperately need doing and probably have a more likely payoff?
February 18, 2026 at 6:11 AM
Look I'm just saying that there are other incredibly transformative things you could do for our species for a billion dollars that we desperately need doing and probably have a more likely payoff?
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The atproto digests are gone. We are free.
February 18, 2026 at 6:33 AM
The atproto digests are gone. We are free.
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It's distressingly simple for some people, and frustrating when others don't see it.
You either see people as people and treat them as such, or you see people as numbers and a means to an end.
There is no in-between.
You either see people as people and treat them as such, or you see people as numbers and a means to an end.
There is no in-between.
Newsom will throw 1-2% of the population under the bus to befriend fascists, but the moment the richest 0.000475% might have to make a one-time payment of 5% he comes out swinging against the best interest of his state.
(Yes, yes. Same picture.)
(Yes, yes. Same picture.)
February 18, 2026 at 6:04 AM
It's distressingly simple for some people, and frustrating when others don't see it.
You either see people as people and treat them as such, or you see people as numbers and a means to an end.
There is no in-between.
You either see people as people and treat them as such, or you see people as numbers and a means to an end.
There is no in-between.
Fun pro-tip for when someone is helping you learn for free: don't be a misogynistic asshole to them.
(After one too many "baby girls" and "why are all women like this?" I finally wielded my mod ban hammer)
(After one too many "baby girls" and "why are all women like this?" I finally wielded my mod ban hammer)
February 18, 2026 at 5:31 AM
Fun pro-tip for when someone is helping you learn for free: don't be a misogynistic asshole to them.
(After one too many "baby girls" and "why are all women like this?" I finally wielded my mod ban hammer)
(After one too many "baby girls" and "why are all women like this?" I finally wielded my mod ban hammer)
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can't wait to hear who caused this one... i hate that like once thing goes down and the entire internet just becomes unavailable. also isn't it weird that most of this shit started happening more and more after ai became predominantly used in development?
February 18, 2026 at 2:00 AM
can't wait to hear who caused this one... i hate that like once thing goes down and the entire internet just becomes unavailable. also isn't it weird that most of this shit started happening more and more after ai became predominantly used in development?
It's pretty funny about how developers using ActivityPub are constantly banging on about AT Protocol, whilst folks developing with AT Protocol are just out here building their applications and doing cool shit.
February 18, 2026 at 2:00 AM
It's pretty funny about how developers using ActivityPub are constantly banging on about AT Protocol, whilst folks developing with AT Protocol are just out here building their applications and doing cool shit.
Cool, Youtube is currently completely broken:
February 18, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Cool, Youtube is currently completely broken:
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tonight: mark hamill calls it "the epstein administration", germany agrees, CBS censors a colbert interview under MAGA pressure, and feds raid a kids detention camp to take the letters they were writing home
the letters. from imprisoned children.
past the "you couldnt make this up" event horizon
the letters. from imprisoned children.
past the "you couldnt make this up" event horizon
February 18, 2026 at 12:55 AM
tonight: mark hamill calls it "the epstein administration", germany agrees, CBS censors a colbert interview under MAGA pressure, and feds raid a kids detention camp to take the letters they were writing home
the letters. from imprisoned children.
past the "you couldnt make this up" event horizon
the letters. from imprisoned children.
past the "you couldnt make this up" event horizon
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EU Friends, you should all sign this petition: crm.edri.org/kiss
Keep It Safe and Secure: Protect Encryption, Ban Spyware.
Keep It Safe and Secure: Protect Encryption, Ban Spyware.
Keep It Safe and Secure: Protect Encryption, Ban Spyware | EDRi CiviCRM
crm.edri.org
February 17, 2026 at 5:05 PM
EU Friends, you should all sign this petition: crm.edri.org/kiss
Keep It Safe and Secure: Protect Encryption, Ban Spyware.
Keep It Safe and Secure: Protect Encryption, Ban Spyware.
@alex.bsky.team / @jimray.bsky.team on the new AT Protocol website, it'd be good for this section atproto.com/guides/subsc... to include information about how the `atproto-accept-labelers` header is used by applications.
February 17, 2026 at 4:45 PM
@alex.bsky.team / @jimray.bsky.team on the new AT Protocol website, it'd be good for this section atproto.com/guides/subsc... to include information about how the `atproto-accept-labelers` header is used by applications.
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Matt Walsh whose followers sent repeated bomb threats to multiple children's hospitals has thoughts on violence
The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.
February 17, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Matt Walsh whose followers sent repeated bomb threats to multiple children's hospitals has thoughts on violence
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My only complaint is that the text on the new website is smaller and I'm getting old...
Though, inspecting the site, it's apparently 16px but it looks more like 14px or smaller to me?
Though, inspecting the site, it's apparently 16px but it looks more like 14px or smaller to me?
We've been hard at work on a new website with new guides, better docs, more translations, even our very own blog. We think it looks pretty sharp, too. It's now easier than ever to just build things with AT Protocol.
atproto.com
atproto.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:35 PM
My only complaint is that the text on the new website is smaller and I'm getting old...
Though, inspecting the site, it's apparently 16px but it looks more like 14px or smaller to me?
Though, inspecting the site, it's apparently 16px but it looks more like 14px or smaller to me?