For everyone building on and around AT Protocol across Europe.

Matteo Gabriele@matteogabriele.npmx.social

This is my take on AI contribution policy: it is not a layer of your workflow I need to know about, and you need to be engaged enough to fool me.

Torsten Goerke (verified 🤜 🤛) 🎛️🎹🔊🎚️🎧📟🔌🐸@tgoerke.bsky.social

Come'on. Join the atmosphere 🌀 Do a @stream.place

Torsten Goerke (verified 🤜 🤛) 🎛️🎹🔊🎚️🎧📟🔌🐸@tgoerke.bsky.social@marcant ?

Torsten Goerke (verified 🤜 🤛) 🎛️🎹🔊🎚️🎧📟🔌🐸@tgoerke.bsky.social

Also looking forward to the opening keynote by Philipp @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social on digital media, the public sphere, and democracy. Philipp kicks off #GeNeMe2026 before our panel (🙂just realized when looking up the full agenda). See you Thursday!

Communities in New Media [GeNeMe]GeNeMe 2026 will take place from September 16 to 18, 2026 at the TUD Dresden University of Technology and will deal with online communities from the perspective of several disciplines.geneme.de

Torsten Goerke (verified 🤜 🤛) 🎛️🎹🔊🎚️🎧📟🔌🐸@tgoerke.bsky.socialExcited for a panel I helped organize at #GeNeMe2026 @tudresden.bsky.social „Handlungsfähigkeit (Agency) in KI-vermittelten Lernumgebungen zurückgewinnen" — reclaiming agency in AI-mediated learning. Fishbowl format, four angles: UX, agency-enabling design, education, Folk Tech. 🧵

Torsten Goerke (verified 🤜 🤛) 🎛️🎹🔊🎚️🎧📟🔌🐸@tgoerke.bsky.social

"Middleware for Feed Recommendation in Practice: How Feed Creators Build, Maintain, and Sustain Custom Feeds on Bluesky" (arxiv.org/abs/2609.12958). This is about the sustainability of custom-feed creators as an unrewarded middleware layer. @tyzhou.bsky.social et al.

Middleware for Feed Recommendation in Practice: How Feed Creators Build, Maintain, and Sustain Custom Feeds on BlueskyScholars have long proposed third-party middleware as an alternative to centralized algorithmic feeds: feeds built and distributed by independent feed creators. This vision saw no large-scale instanti...arxiv.org

Amy Zhang@axz.bsky.socialWe were interested in studying the Bsky custom feed ecosystem, with a focus on feed creators, as arguably the first real instantiation of the vision of middleware providers for social media services like recommendation. The idea always seemed great in theory, but how sustainable is it really?

Torsten Goerke (verified 🤜 🤛) 🎛️🎹🔊🎚️🎧📟🔌🐸@tgoerke.bsky.social

Watch the EU on the Atmosphere!

Atmosphere Community@atmosphere.communityCongratulations @stream.place! What a great opportunity to showcase Streamplace's excellent streaming service, and their large scale video infrastructure, including all of the verification of trusted video that hasn't been altered. Watch the EU on the Atmosphere!

Guido X Jansen@gui.do

There's a new king 👑 in town, slackers @angrydutchman.online @chris.pardy.family @samclemente.me @murdabea2.margin.cafe @jauntywunderkind.bsky.social @natespilman.at @borisanthony.net @byjp.me @scanash.com @marque.at #SeptemberGives

Belgium Atmosphere@belgium-atmosphe.re

Welkom @atproto.nl 👋 - new trusted Verifier for @mu.social ! 🇳🇱 atproto.nl/verify/

atproto.nlatproto.nl is a trusted community verifier for the Netherlands. We verify accounts that clearly belong to the Dutch AT Protocol community, so people can tell who is genuinely local.atproto.nl

La France sur Bluesky/Eurosky@france-atmosphe.re

Ne vous y méprenez pas : l'objectif de l'ATProtocole, sur lequel sont bâtis Bluesky et les autres applications qui forment l'ATmosphere, n'est pas de reproduire Twitter mais de reconstruire un internet meilleur.

Mike Masnick@masnick.comThis looks amazing. And, again, reconfirms the thing I keep telling people: the Atmosphere isn't about rebuilding Twitter. It's about rebuilding a better web overall.

Guido X Jansen@gui.do

The method (and assumptions) are also described a bit: if you have any suggestions/ideas to improve the data I'd love to hear it!

Guido X Jansen@gui.do

I tried answering "How big is AT Protocol in Europe" It's still an evolving story (and data collection script), but here is my first attempt: atproto.eu/stats/ It includes a breakdown per country, growth chart, PDSes used and the apps/lexicons are most used (beyond microblogging).

atproto.euAT Protocol accounts across 32 European countries, each account counted once.atproto.eu

Torsten Goerke (verified 🤜 🤛) 🎛️🎹🔊🎚️🎧📟🔌🐸@tgoerke.bsky.social

Mixed feelings about the WSocial × Streamplace coalition. This isn't open, collectively owned infra for Europeans. It's the European Commission itself broadcasting into the Atmosphere. Mandatory government ID for that isn't congruent with indiesky, and I'm not sure yet about their political agenda.

Torsten Goerke (verified 🤜 🤛) 🎛️🎹🔊🎚️🎧📟🔌🐸@tgoerke.bsky.social👀

Torsten Goerke (verified 🤜 🤛) 🎛️🎹🔊🎚️🎧📟🔌🐸@tgoerke.bsky.social

My angle is Folk Tech: communities configuring their own AI tools as an act of collective self-determination, not a tinkering niche. As LX Cast @questioning.ca it when we talked in Vancouver right after #ATScience: "We are just folx." More once the paper's out!

Torsten Goerke (verified 🤜 🤛) 🎛️🎹🔊🎚️🎧📟🔌🐸@tgoerke.bsky.social

On the panel: @puxflow.bsky.social bringing the UX angle, @sabinebarthold.bsky.social on agency-enabling design (vibe-coding/low-code). Plus perspectives on education/situated AI, and my own on Folk Tech.

Torsten Goerke (verified 🤜 🤛) 🎛️🎹🔊🎚️🎧📟🔌🐸@tgoerke.bsky.social

Excited for a panel I helped organize at #GeNeMe2026 @tudresden.bsky.social „Handlungsfähigkeit (Agency) in KI-vermittelten Lernumgebungen zurückgewinnen" — reclaiming agency in AI-mediated learning. Fishbowl format, four angles: UX, agency-enabling design, education, Folk Tech. 🧵

La France sur Bluesky/Eurosky@france-atmosphe.re

💫 La famille Eurosky/mu.social s'agrandit ! 🇪🇺 🇳🇱 Nous accueillons @atproto.nl nouveau vérificateur de confiance pour les Pays-Bas ! @belgium-atmosphe.re @spain-atmosphe.re @atproto.fr

Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend.sh

@meri.garden carried this release on her back, and is presently driving the Roomy product. Every $ of revenue buys more development time for meri to continue her work at a steady cadence.

Roomy@roomy.spaceHelp fund our lil indie operation! Larger legacy communities on Discord can now pay $30/month to unlock live bridging at scale for the purpose of either safe-keeping or incrementally transitioning their community to Roomy and the atmosphere. should we add a $5/month good-vibes-only supporter plan?Roomy Pro

Torsten Goerke (verified 🤜 🤛) 🎛️🎹🔊🎚️🎧📟🔌🐸@tgoerke.bsky.social

Another level unlocked for atmospheric music communies 🎉🎶

incognitothief@whereditgo.diamondsHuge Thank You to all those who submitted 🫂 @woody.fm @zzstoatzz.io @tgoerke.bsky.social @openguitar.org @mayathedj.bsky.social It was such an awesome experience hearing everyone's renditions; Even cooler that we were able to stitch this together across several AT Services

Tom@moll.dev

Bluesky should have a thread gate that disables comments / quotes for people until they click on the article

Tom@moll.dev

finally got everything merged, a funny side effect is seeing a single commit removing 18,000 lines of code

Tom@moll.devgitlab's stacked PR feature is god awful, holy shit

Laurens@laurenshof.online

this isnt bad per se, it just means that you need proper governance for the aggregator systems