Wesley Finck
@wesleyfinck.org
technical co-founder & CTO @cosmik.network
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Chinese apps are a completely different world than western apps, lots of mutual learning is possible
In certain Chinese apps, you can @ the app’s bot and say “stop showing me this type of content, start showing xxx” when you see content you don’t like. I think that’s pretty cool!
December 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Chinese apps are a completely different world than western apps, lots of mutual learning is possible
super impressed and grateful for the immense care within this diverse community 🫶
Really impressed by the commitment here. I can't wait to discuss the survey with social scientists. And the preceding collection of ideas in the wild. Perhaps it is methodologically questionable? I'm curious. But so far, I have only seen such a data set in large-scale social science studies.
December 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
super impressed and grateful for the immense care within this diverse community 🫶
Reposted by Wesley Finck
If you’re looking for reading recommendations for the winter break - lots of gems here! Thanks to all the contributors and happy holidays ☃️
semble.so/explore/gems...
semble.so/explore/gems...
Gems of 2025 Collections — Semble
Gems of 2025 Collections
semble.so
December 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
If you’re looking for reading recommendations for the winter break - lots of gems here! Thanks to all the contributors and happy holidays ☃️
semble.so/explore/gems...
semble.so/explore/gems...
after a fun chat with @laurenshof.online and @ronentk.me I finally made time to write up some more thoughts about interoperability in the atmosphere without needing to share lexicons!
notes.wesleyfinck.org/3maq3h26ook2h
notes.wesleyfinck.org/3maq3h26ook2h
Two Types of Interoperability Without Sharing Lexicons - Wesley's notes
Sharing lexicons is not the only way to leverage atproto’s interoperability
notes.wesleyfinck.org
December 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM
after a fun chat with @laurenshof.online and @ronentk.me I finally made time to write up some more thoughts about interoperability in the atmosphere without needing to share lexicons!
notes.wesleyfinck.org/3maq3h26ook2h
notes.wesleyfinck.org/3maq3h26ook2h
obviously the results of this do not replace the important and necessary user research work (s/o to @christian.bsky.social for spearheading this!). But it is quite fun, and insightful, to see opinion groups emerge on this topic. And polis is a fantastic product
I went ahead and created a pol.is conversation about this, pls contribute! pol.is/7bdiwbvh2d
You can contribute by voting on statements and/or adding your own statements.
First time using it, hope it helps surface useful insight!
You can contribute by voting on statements and/or adding your own statements.
First time using it, hope it helps surface useful insight!
December 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
obviously the results of this do not replace the important and necessary user research work (s/o to @christian.bsky.social for spearheading this!). But it is quite fun, and insightful, to see opinion groups emerge on this topic. And polis is a fantastic product
ppl are still contributing, but you can checkout out the report here: pol.is/report/r6bbh...
December 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
ppl are still contributing, but you can checkout out the report here: pol.is/report/r6bbh...
Reposted by Wesley Finck
Want to present your ATproto research or project? Submit your idea at forms.atproto.science/atscience26-... >
ATScience2026 Call for Proposals
forms.atproto.science
December 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Want to present your ATproto research or project? Submit your idea at forms.atproto.science/atscience26-... >
Reposted by Wesley Finck
Announcing atproto.science! #ATproto has huge potential for supporting new ways of doing research, so we started @atproto.science to help bring together researchers, build community, and explore what's possible when science meets cutting-edge open social network protocols! 🧪 >
Empowering science communities with open, democratic, researcher-owned infrastructure.
We’re building communities and tech for publishing, curating, sharing, and discussing research online using ATProto and other decentralized protocols.
atproto.science
December 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Announcing atproto.science! #ATproto has huge potential for supporting new ways of doing research, so we started @atproto.science to help bring together researchers, build community, and explore what's possible when science meets cutting-edge open social network protocols! 🧪 >
I went ahead and created a pol.is conversation about this, pls contribute! pol.is/7bdiwbvh2d
You can contribute by voting on statements and/or adding your own statements.
First time using it, hope it helps surface useful insight!
You can contribute by voting on statements and/or adding your own statements.
First time using it, hope it helps surface useful insight!
December 22, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I went ahead and created a pol.is conversation about this, pls contribute! pol.is/7bdiwbvh2d
You can contribute by voting on statements and/or adding your own statements.
First time using it, hope it helps surface useful insight!
You can contribute by voting on statements and/or adding your own statements.
First time using it, hope it helps surface useful insight!
This is a rly important question, especially for the future of science communication. There’s a bigger design question here about attention allocation systems. Notifications (e.g. of ppl commenting on ur post) is a form of this. We need better tools (and policies) for configuring them.
What could we do to make it better? I would invest a lot of time and energy if I could think of something to do! Our own moderation system? A labeler that filters to people who generally reply in good faith? A standalone client just for academics??
December 22, 2025 at 2:54 AM
This is a rly important question, especially for the future of science communication. There’s a bigger design question here about attention allocation systems. Notifications (e.g. of ppl commenting on ur post) is a form of this. We need better tools (and policies) for configuring them.
🙏🙏🙏👌👌👌
@brittanyellich.com and I have been talking about community modeling on ATProtocol lately and I wrote a follow-up piece to her recent post "Representing groups in ATProto".
The Community Manager Pattern - Nick's Blog
This post looks more closely at Brittany Ellich's work on representing groups in ATProtocol. It builds on earlier conversations and explores how these ideas might work in practice.
ngerakines.leaflet.pub
December 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
🙏🙏🙏👌👌👌
some really great links being added to peoples top picks of 2025! If you make a "💎 Picks of 2025" collection, your cards will also show up in our community feed semble.so/explore/gems...
Explore — Gems of 2025 — Semble
Top picks from our community
semble.so
December 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
some really great links being added to peoples top picks of 2025! If you make a "💎 Picks of 2025" collection, your cards will also show up in our community feed semble.so/explore/gems...
It would be awesome to use a collective deliberation tool like polis for making sense of atproto ecosystem-wide discussions like sign in branding / terminology. Bsky threads are not the appropriate format. plus many more voice can contribute meaningfully.
December 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
It would be awesome to use a collective deliberation tool like polis for making sense of atproto ecosystem-wide discussions like sign in branding / terminology. Bsky threads are not the appropriate format. plus many more voice can contribute meaningfully.
There’s aggregation and there’s discourse facilitation (ie discourse graph affordances). We’re hoping Semble can support both for some time, but eventually we’ll prob have to commit to one, and defer the other to an ecosystem effort. Which is the beauty of ATProto, don’t have to do it all alone!
That's to say, someone needs to build the "discourse aggregation" atproto app. Semble is close to this but not quite it.
December 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
There’s aggregation and there’s discourse facilitation (ie discourse graph affordances). We’re hoping Semble can support both for some time, but eventually we’ll prob have to commit to one, and defer the other to an ecosystem effort. Which is the beauty of ATProto, don’t have to do it all alone!
Had a lot of fun picking out my top picks from 2025, looking forward to continued learning in 2026!
semble.so/profile/wesl...
semble.so/profile/wesl...
December 16, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Had a lot of fun picking out my top picks from 2025, looking forward to continued learning in 2026!
semble.so/profile/wesl...
semble.so/profile/wesl...
Our first iteration of notifications! What else would make sense? E.g. getting notified if someone Semble’s one of your bsky posts or @leaflet.pub pubs? @ mentions in a card note? Semble page alerts?
Quick update on some new features and happenings from the past week! 🧵
Lab Notes #004: Semble Updates - Notifications, Provenance and Indie Integrations - Cosmik Labs
Spreading good attention karma with new Semble notifications and provenance, and some cool indie Semble integrations
notes.cosmik.network
December 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Our first iteration of notifications! What else would make sense? E.g. getting notified if someone Semble’s one of your bsky posts or @leaflet.pub pubs? @ mentions in a card note? Semble page alerts?
👀
We've also got some holiday season surprises cooking for you, stay tuned and have a great weekend!
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media.tenor.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Reposted by Wesley Finck
Today, we're opening up Seams Alpha (seams.so), a social web annotation built in the Atmosphere. We're hoping it helps with collective sense-making.
This is just the start, there's still lots to do!
We'd love if you tried it with us.
This is just the start, there's still lots to do!
We'd love if you tried it with us.
Lab Notes #001 - Sealight Lab Notes
Announcing Seams
sealight.leaflet.pub
December 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Today, we're opening up Seams Alpha (seams.so), a social web annotation built in the Atmosphere. We're hoping it helps with collective sense-making.
This is just the start, there's still lots to do!
We'd love if you tried it with us.
This is just the start, there's still lots to do!
We'd love if you tried it with us.
did something with atproto oauth change in the last week? my local dev environment is failing to resolve a handle to DID and I haven't changed anything (was away all last week)
December 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
did something with atproto oauth change in the last week? my local dev environment is failing to resolve a handle to DID and I haven't changed anything (was away all last week)
Reposted by Wesley Finck
I'll be presenting @cosmik.network and semble.so at 4pm today at the ASML Open Showcase @ Berkman Klein Center - come say hi if you're around!
cyber.harvard.edu/events/asml-...
cyber.harvard.edu/events/asml-...
ASML 2025 Synthesizer
Join the Applied Social Media Lab for the 2025 Synthesizer & Open Showcase!
cyber.harvard.edu
December 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I'll be presenting @cosmik.network and semble.so at 4pm today at the ASML Open Showcase @ Berkman Klein Center - come say hi if you're around!
cyber.harvard.edu/events/asml-...
cyber.harvard.edu/events/asml-...
Reposted by Wesley Finck
Black Friday ⬛️🚫? No, it's Leafy Friday! 🍃✅
A special day to read & write on Leaflet 😍
Right now the best way to support us is to:
📖 explore what people are publishing — see leaflet.pub/discover & Bluesky feeds on our profile
📝 write something — make a publication, or [new!] publish a looseleaf!
A special day to read & write on Leaflet 😍
Right now the best way to support us is to:
📖 explore what people are publishing — see leaflet.pub/discover & Bluesky feeds on our profile
📝 write something — make a publication, or [new!] publish a looseleaf!
November 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Black Friday ⬛️🚫? No, it's Leafy Friday! 🍃✅
A special day to read & write on Leaflet 😍
Right now the best way to support us is to:
📖 explore what people are publishing — see leaflet.pub/discover & Bluesky feeds on our profile
📝 write something — make a publication, or [new!] publish a looseleaf!
A special day to read & write on Leaflet 😍
Right now the best way to support us is to:
📖 explore what people are publishing — see leaflet.pub/discover & Bluesky feeds on our profile
📝 write something — make a publication, or [new!] publish a looseleaf!
pls pls pls fill out the poll! we'd love the feedback :)
🚨Feature Fridays 🚨
Happy Friday everyone!
We've shipped some fun enhancements to Semble, all of which are outlined in the linked leaflet 🍂
Also, please fill out the poll for our next feature! 📊
Highlights below ⬇️
notes.cosmik.network/3m6pknh6tzs2e
Happy Friday everyone!
We've shipped some fun enhancements to Semble, all of which are outlined in the linked leaflet 🍂
Also, please fill out the poll for our next feature! 📊
Highlights below ⬇️
notes.cosmik.network/3m6pknh6tzs2e
Cosmik Lab Notes 003: Semble Updates - Discover, Collection Preview, Sorting, and more - Cosmik Labs
An overview of some recent enhancements to Semble (with a poll for next features!)
notes.cosmik.network
November 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
pls pls pls fill out the poll! we'd love the feedback :)
Some thoughts about naming things and a bit about the current Semble logo!
The Land of Metaphor
Or, the second hardest thing in programming
notes.wesleyfinck.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Some thoughts about naming things and a bit about the current Semble logo!
Reposted by Wesley Finck
🎊 @lanyards.app BETA is now live for #researchers!
Sign up with 🦋 → lanyards.app
#ATscience 🧪 #ATmosphere 🌀 #ATproto 🪿 #ATberlin #LinkInBio #AcademicSky
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🧑🚀 Lanyards BETA is now live! Lanyard is free #LinkInBio app built especially for Researchers using #ATproto 🪿
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#ATscience 🧪 #ATmosphere 🌀 #AcademicSky
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#ATscience 🧪 #ATmosphere 🌀 #AcademicSky
Lanyards - Researcher Profiles on AT Protocol
A dedicated profile for researchers, built on the AT Protocol. An alternative to ORCID.
lanyards.app
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 AM
🎊 @lanyards.app BETA is now live for #researchers!
Sign up with 🦋 → lanyards.app
#ATscience 🧪 #ATmosphere 🌀 #ATproto 🪿 #ATberlin #LinkInBio #AcademicSky
Sign up with 🦋 → lanyards.app
#ATscience 🧪 #ATmosphere 🌀 #ATproto 🪿 #ATberlin #LinkInBio #AcademicSky
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November 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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