Last week

Frequency is a new project for a decentralised relay using a blockchain. The Bluesky clients ecosystem keeps developing.
IFTAS shutting down most of its services following a lack of funding. Fediverse tumblr-like platform Wafrn has a native Bluesky integration.

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 […]

A variety of smaller news updates this week.
Social platforms are not, and can not, be neutral in a context of authoritarianism, and Bluesky cannot avoid this dynamic either. On a lighter note, many experiments with building image and video clients for Bluesky are ongoing, more insight in how ATProto can scale down, and more.
Mastodon has announced it will add quote posts to the platform, and some other news.
A new P2P group chat with Roomy, Microcosm makes ATProto even more modular, other new tools and much more!
This week I'm zooming in on the culture of the fediverse, prompted by the Superbowl halftime show. IFTAS announces they'll run out of funding soon, indicating the challenges with funding Trust & Safety in the network.
The ongoing coup in America shifts the framing of 'credible exit' on ATProto. More video and images apps for Bluesky.
Large interest for the fediverse at FOSDEM, more conversations about data usage and consent, and multi-platform client Openvibe gets 800k in funding.