Bluesky, censorship and country-based moderation
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
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber hints some more at Bluesky PBC’s plans for monetisation, on ATProto’s ethos, and more.
Bluesky Report – #110
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
The ATmosphereConf was last weekend, independent relays are starting to appear, and more.
Bluesky Report – #108
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
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
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
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 […]
Last Week in Bluesky – 2025feb.c
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.
Last Week in the ATmosphere – 2025feb.b
A new P2P group chat with Roomy, Microcosm makes ATProto even more modular, other new tools and much more!