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ATmosphere Report – #114

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Bluesky launches a checkmark verification system, streaming software Streamplace gets 500k USD in funding, and much more!

Bluesky Report – #112

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Custom feed builder Graze raises 1M USD, and Deer is a new fork of the main Bluesky app.

Bluesky, censorship and country-based moderation

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This week, Bluesky hid accounts in for users in Turkey after a government order. I take a closer look at government censorship and ATProto, how geographic moderation labelers work, and the impact on the future of decentralised social networks.

ATmosphere Report – #111

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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber hints some more at Bluesky PBC's plans for monetisation, on ATProto's ethos, and more.

Bluesky Report – #110

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Video app Skylight is available for public release, with funding from Mark Cuban and 55k users in the first 24 hours. Spark is building their own entire video platform on ATProto, and just launched in beta.

ATmosphere Report – #109

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The ATmosphereConf was last weekend, independent relays are starting to appear, and more.

Bluesky Report – #108

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Northsky is a new cooperative that is building their own space for the trans and queer community on Bluesky/ATProto, multiple apps are starting to work towards financial sustainability, and more.

ATmosphere Report – 2025march.b

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Bluesky PBC shares their protocol roadmap, and a way to indicate user preference to how external parties can handle their data. Tangled is a newly launched Git collaboration platform built on ATProto, and much more news.

Bluesky Report – 2025mar.a

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Frequency is a new project for a decentralised relay using a blockchain. The Bluesky clients ecosystem keeps developing.

Last Week in the ATmosphere – 2025feb.d

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Welcome to the bi-weekly tech-focused update on everything that is happening on Bluesky and the wider ATmosphere. The theme continues to be: “can ATProto scale down“? Next week will be focused again on Bluesky and it’s surrounding ecosystem of media apps. The News Constellation is a project that recently released that provides a database of […]