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We Distribute is a news site reporting on the future of the Internet. We cover the Fediverse, Bluesky, Nostr, and more. We keep a pulse on the development of these spaces, and the people living in it.
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Jazzed for the conference and the ATProto x science side event we're co-organizing with @tgoerke.bsky.social 🚀
Save the date! 📆
Also - ideas for cool speakers or projects in the ATProto science space are most welcome! Feel free to share here/DM/email
Save the date! 📆
Also - ideas for cool speakers or projects in the ATProto science space are most welcome! Feel free to share here/DM/email
Announcing ATmosphereConf 2026, coming to Vancouver March 26th to 29th.
We've got the full announcement and future news and updates on our new site news.atmosphereconf.org/3m3cwwz4mpk2j
We've got the full announcement and future news and updates on our new site news.atmosphereconf.org/3m3cwwz4mpk2j
Announcing ATmosphereConf Vancouver 2026 - ATmosphereConf News
The next ATProto Community Conference is coming to Vancouver, Canada, in March 26th to 29th 2026
news.atmosphereconf.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Jazzed for the conference and the ATProto x science side event we're co-organizing with @tgoerke.bsky.social 🚀
Save the date! 📆
Also - ideas for cool speakers or projects in the ATProto science space are most welcome! Feel free to share here/DM/email
Save the date! 📆
Also - ideas for cool speakers or projects in the ATProto science space are most welcome! Feel free to share here/DM/email
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I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11
October 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11
For those seeking out a federated and open alternative to Tumblr, Wafrn is looking extremely promising.
Wafrn is for People Who Miss Tumblr’s Chaotic Energy
What started as a Tumblr-inspired publishing platform has taken on a life of its own within the Fediverse, evolving into something far more wild.
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October 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
For those seeking out a federated and open alternative to Tumblr, Wafrn is looking extremely promising.
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Threads now includes their long form text attachments to fediverse enabled posts. Gonna go login for the first time in a few weeks and try it out.
#fediverse #threads
https://www.threads.com/@shubhankar_91/post/DPWtTFwjp-M
#fediverse #threads
https://www.threads.com/@shubhankar_91/post/DPWtTFwjp-M
Shubhankar Srivastava (@shubhankar_91) on Threads
We now support Fediverse sharing of long form text attachment
www.threads.com
October 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Threads now includes their long form text attachments to fediverse enabled posts. Gonna go login for the first time in a few weeks and try it out.
#fediverse #threads
https://www.threads.com/@shubhankar_91/post/DPWtTFwjp-M
#fediverse #threads
https://www.threads.com/@shubhankar_91/post/DPWtTFwjp-M
We've been working to build up a list to keep track of people and projects within the ATproto ecosystem. If there's anyone we've missed, let us know!
October 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
We've been working to build up a list to keep track of people and projects within the ATproto ecosystem. If there's anyone we've missed, let us know!
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very excited to share this update about bringing AT to the IETF!
last week we uploaded two drafts to the IETF datatracker and today we heard that we’re approved to host a Birds of a Feather at IETF 124 (the formal meeting towards establishing a working group)
last week we uploaded two drafts to the IETF datatracker and today we heard that we’re approved to host a Birds of a Feather at IETF 124 (the formal meeting towards establishing a working group)
Taking AT to the IETF | Bluesky
Last week we posted two drafts to the IETF Data Tracker. This is the first major step towards standardizing parts of AT in an effort to establish long-term governance for the protocol.
docs.bsky.app
September 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
very excited to share this update about bringing AT to the IETF!
last week we uploaded two drafts to the IETF datatracker and today we heard that we’re approved to host a Birds of a Feather at IETF 124 (the formal meeting towards establishing a working group)
last week we uploaded two drafts to the IETF datatracker and today we heard that we’re approved to host a Birds of a Feather at IETF 124 (the formal meeting towards establishing a working group)
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Tynan @tynanpurdy.com is wanting to have a set of resources to send to local publications & journalists about posting to Bluesky.
Looking for resources & articles about success stories and getting started. Get involved and share in the forum here discourse.atprotocol.community/t/boilerplat...
Looking for resources & articles about success stories and getting started. Get involved and share in the forum here discourse.atprotocol.community/t/boilerplat...
Boilerplate Pitch to Publications
We know that Bluesky has better click-through rates than any other social media platform, and that publishing independence from platforms is more important now than ever. To that effect, advocating fo...
discourse.atprotocol.community
September 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Tynan @tynanpurdy.com is wanting to have a set of resources to send to local publications & journalists about posting to Bluesky.
Looking for resources & articles about success stories and getting started. Get involved and share in the forum here discourse.atprotocol.community/t/boilerplat...
Looking for resources & articles about success stories and getting started. Get involved and share in the forum here discourse.atprotocol.community/t/boilerplat...
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The problem with banning someone who hasn't broken any policies is that the evilest people in the world may own this platform in the future and they can use that in the other direction and point to the OG builders actions and I swear we've seen this before am I in a timeloop
October 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The problem with banning someone who hasn't broken any policies is that the evilest people in the world may own this platform in the future and they can use that in the other direction and point to the OG builders actions and I swear we've seen this before am I in a timeloop
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A little proof of concept I've been working on, it's a version of Bluesky that you can run locally, even on your laptop, that pulls just the data you care about from the firehose, indexes it, and provides you an interface to view and interact with posts.
GitHub - whyrusleeping/konbini
Contribute to whyrusleeping/konbini development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
A little proof of concept I've been working on, it's a version of Bluesky that you can run locally, even on your laptop, that pulls just the data you care about from the firehose, indexes it, and provides you an interface to view and interact with posts.
The video version of our latest episode is now on #PeerTube! We chatted with @quillmatiq.com and @snarfed.org about A New Social, what they're working on, and some interesting side conversations about where the Fediverse is heading!
S2E5: Anuj Ahooja and Ryan Barrett from A New Social
We sat down with our friends from A New Social, the nonprofit organization behind projects such as Bridgy Fed and Bounce. Joining us for the interview are A New Social's two co-founders, Anuj Ahooj...
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September 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The video version of our latest episode is now on #PeerTube! We chatted with @quillmatiq.com and @snarfed.org about A New Social, what they're working on, and some interesting side conversations about where the Fediverse is heading!
Here's this week's issue of Relay, a roundup of things happening across the Social Web. Governance changes, questions of decentralization, and some new developments in the field.
September 7th: Rising Tides
Here's this week's roundup of things happening across the Social Web. Governance changes, questions of decentralization, and some new developments in the field.
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September 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Here's this week's issue of Relay, a roundup of things happening across the Social Web. Governance changes, questions of decentralization, and some new developments in the field.
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FediForum special event next week!
Join us for an hour with Robert W. Gehl, who wrote a great new book about the Fediverse: "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the struggle for democratic social media."
Come and hear excerpts from the book, and ask questions! We read […]
Join us for an hour with Robert W. Gehl, who wrote a great new book about the Fediverse: "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the struggle for democratic social media."
Come and hear excerpts from the book, and ask questions! We read […]
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mastodon.social
September 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
FediForum special event next week!
Join us for an hour with Robert W. Gehl, who wrote a great new book about the Fediverse: "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the struggle for democratic social media."
Come and hear excerpts from the book, and ask questions! We read […]
Join us for an hour with Robert W. Gehl, who wrote a great new book about the Fediverse: "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the struggle for democratic social media."
Come and hear excerpts from the book, and ask questions! We read […]
The Social Web Foundation has been experimenting with the lesser-known other half of the ActivityPub protocol. Here's what they're up to.
Social Web Foundation is Betting Big on Client-to-Server API
Nonprofit organization Social Web Foundation is quietly focusing on building tools, libraries, and prototypes to demonstrate what ActivityPub C2S could do.
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August 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The Social Web Foundation has been experimenting with the lesser-known other half of the ActivityPub protocol. Here's what they're up to.
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On a brighter note, I do think it's really cool that this conversation about decentralized protocols is decentralized at the protocol layer and still accessible across networks
August 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
On a brighter note, I do think it's really cool that this conversation about decentralized protocols is decentralized at the protocol layer and still accessible across networks
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August 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The first issue of our Social Web newsletter, Relay, is out. Take a look!
August 22rd, 2025: Something Brewing
Please be gentle. This is our first time doing this kind of thing. Welcome to our first issue of Relay.
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August 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The first issue of our Social Web newsletter, Relay, is out. Take a look!
We're trying something new, and starting a newsletter that adds more voices to the coverage of the Social Web. Check out Relay!
Welcome to Relay
This is just a brief introduction to what Relay is, what we're planning to do, and what we hope to accomplish.
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August 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We're trying something new, and starting a newsletter that adds more voices to the coverage of the Social Web. Check out Relay!
After a brief demo at FediCon 2025, a new, open source fundraising system for the #Fediverse has been released to the public. It's native to the network, and you sign in using your own Fediverse account.
CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse
A new, open source, self-hostable fundraising system for the Fediverse has been released. The project is very young, but there's a huge amount of promise.
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August 20, 2025 at 7:28 AM
After a brief demo at FediCon 2025, a new, open source fundraising system for the #Fediverse has been released to the public. It's native to the network, and you sign in using your own Fediverse account.
We Distribute is evaluating whether to launch a crowdfunding campaign to support our organization. Right now, almost everything we do is created, produced, and edited by one guy, @deadsuperhero.com.
If you're interested, feel free to fill out this survey:
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August 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
We Distribute is evaluating whether to launch a crowdfunding campaign to support our organization. Right now, almost everything we do is created, produced, and edited by one guy, @deadsuperhero.com.
If you're interested, feel free to fill out this survey:
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Is a large corporate entity scraping a community-run open social network to train AI models for profit? Dropsite News claims to have received a leak, and the list contains a significant amount of #Fediverse instances.
Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI?
Is a large corporate entity scraping a community-run open social network to train AI models for profit?
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August 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Is a large corporate entity scraping a community-run open social network to train AI models for profit? Dropsite News claims to have received a leak, and the list contains a significant amount of #Fediverse instances.
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It was a huge honor to be able to host a panel and interview some really incredible people at FediCon. I got the privilege to interview some incredibly thoughtful people that I admire and look up to.
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We Distribute Live — Sean Tilley — FediCon 2025
Sean Tilley hosted a panel at FediCon 2025: "We Distribute Live". Sean Tilley's panelists were (from left to right): Boris Mann, Anuj Ahooja, Evan S. Prodromou, Janet Vertesi, Christopher Joseph Al...
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August 9, 2025 at 3:26 AM
It was a huge honor to be able to host a panel and interview some really incredible people at FediCon. I got the privilege to interview some incredibly thoughtful people that I admire and look up to.
If you like this, check out @wedistribute.org.
If you like this, check out @wedistribute.org.
There's a lot of cool stuff in the pipeline for the open source federated alternative to Tiktok and Vine, including a Web UI and a boatload of new features. Let's dive in, and see what's coming in the next release.
Big Updates Are Coming to Loops
Loops, the open source Tiktok alternative for the Fediverse, is continuing to evolve. Here's what's new for the video platform.
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August 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
There's a lot of cool stuff in the pipeline for the open source federated alternative to Tiktok and Vine, including a Web UI and a boatload of new features. Let's dive in, and see what's coming in the next release.
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What We're Building.
Infrastructure for Interdependence: Building technology in service of collective power
[This document serves as a memo for investors]
leaflet.pub
July 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
What We're Building.
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Leaflet looks like a great project, exciting to think about forks for science (micro?)publishing on ATProto! I also really like the bsky posts as inline comments feature
New in Leaflet: two new block types: MATH and CODE
Math: enter mathematical expressions w/ TeX notation (excuse the nonsensical example for now haha…send us real ones?)
Code: full code blocks with language selection + themes!
We *also* added inline code, which you can enter `like this` :)
Math: enter mathematical expressions w/ TeX notation (excuse the nonsensical example for now haha…send us real ones?)
Code: full code blocks with language selection + themes!
We *also* added inline code, which you can enter `like this` :)
July 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Leaflet looks like a great project, exciting to think about forks for science (micro?)publishing on ATProto! I also really like the bsky posts as inline comments feature