If you use Bluesky, you may be interested in today’s news that now you can publish Surf feeds to Bluesky.

We’d love for you to test with us if you want! Here's more details:

https://bsky.app/profile/surf.social/post/3lnnpyqge5c2p

In this episode of the DotSocial podcast, recorded at the #FediverseHouse at SXSW, Bluesky CTO @pfrazee.com strapped on his butterfly wings to explain to @mike how the company is rethinking the internet’s architecture to create a more flexible, user-centric web.

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/dot-social-paul-frazee-bluesky/

If you're at #IJF25 next week, I'd love to say hi!

Particularly excited to chat about:

- Building a high-functioning technology culture
- #opensource for newsrooms
- Maintaining source anonymity
- The #fediverse / #atprotocol
- Collab with open source projects

But also, I'd love to hang out!

Beyond Bluesky: The Rise of Decentralized Social Apps

The AT Protocol (ATProto), the open foundation behind Bluesky, is becoming a launchpad for next-gen social apps.

Some standout innovations:
・Flashes: A photo/video-sharing platform reminiscent of classic Instagram
・Spark: A video-first app with livestreaming on the way
・Streamplace: Livestreaming built with cryptographic creator protections
・Graze: Build, customize, and monetize your own social feeds

This signals a shift toward user-owned, open social ecosystems—a strong contrast to walled-garden platforms. Developers, creators, and users alike are embracing interoperability, privacy, and creative freedom.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/30/beyond-bluesky-these-are-the-apps-building-social-experiences-on-the-at-protocol/

One of a number of take-aways from #ATmosphereConf —

The Bluesky team had a whole session (IndieSky) set up so that others could set up their own parallel Bluesky infrastructure.

The Bluesky team even wanted to make it less expensive for people to do it.

BUT — most the people in the room didn't seem interested in that per se.

Most the people in the room wanted their own ATProto infrastructure for their own applications / platforms built on ATProto.

I was looking into how a Bluesky PDS works from a programming point-of-view.

I came across this document the first time I looked around. (And then someone shared it with me again.)

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/2350

It gives you an overview, but not a list of API (NSID) end-points to implement.

The only resource I could find for that is this:

https://github.com/blacksky-algorithms/rsky/tree/main/rsky-pds%2Fsrc%2Fapis

(You can infer it from the directory names and file names.)

One of a number of take-aways from #ATmosphereConf —

I felt like Paul Frazee (from Bluesky Org) was encouraging people deploy their own relays.

And, to think of the Bluesky Firehose Relay of everything — as a temporary thing to use, when first developing your app or platform. And then later, to deploy your own relay.

One of a number of take-aways from #ATmosphereConf —

Although there is only one Bluesky Firehose Relay of everything —

There are definitely other relays on the Bluesky ATmosphere.

I talked to more than one person who has their own relay on the Bluesky ATmosphere.

...

Although none of these alt-relays seemed to be meant to be broadly used by others. But, instead meant to be used for the platform they created using ATProto.

One of a number of take-aways from #ATmosphereConf —

Bluesky might deal with their relay-problem by introducing an architecture that looks a lot like the Fediverse.

Rather than applications getting everything from the Firehose Relay — applications would get data directly from the PDSes.

Although, it wasn't quite clear when whether this would be 'pull' or 'push'.

But still, it is looking a lot more like the Fediverse's architecture at that point.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dy62mdx64e6i32pcuzfkekmk/post/3ll2zf7thf22v

Bluesky는 X의 훌륭한 대안일 수 있지만, 연합우주의 대안은 아닙니다

https://hackers.pub/@hongminhee/2025/bluesky-a-good-alternative-to-x-not-to-the-fediverse

Really awesome session at #ATmosphereConf talking about @lexicon.community. Such great discussion. #atdev #atprotocol

At #ATmosphereConf

https://atprotocol.dev/atmosphereconf/

https://atprotocol.dev/atmosphereconf-2025-talks/

@boris (one of the organizers) is talking in front of the audience. (Boris and I are both from Vancouver.)

I see Fediverse people here. For example, @damon (of We Distribute fame) is sitting next to me.

I will be at ATmosphere Conference this weekend — March 22nd & 23rd.

https://atprotocol.dev/atmosphereconf/

Well, it’s a lucky day . Our latest update contains a pot o’ gold for the Bluesky community especially. Take a look at what’s in this release, including linking your Bluesky account to Surf, a new Home Timeline that unifies your Bluesky and Mastodon, and Bluesky notifications in our app.

So, I'm testing this new (?) platform called Wafrn.

Not going to lie, I'm not completely sold on the UI (if I understand correctly, it's closer in style to Tumblr than to your usual microblogging platform, and more important, some things need to be ironed out and some features are missing - but if I understand correctly, it's only one unique developer working on it) but the thing that is truly revolutionary is that it uses both ActivityPub and ATProtocol natively. In plain English, with the same account you can follow and be followed by accounts from both the Fediverse and Bluesky!

And this is just, wow…

I'm really tempted to use it, but… I already have too many accounts (and so far, there's one unique instance of the service and no way to migrate accounts to or from here).

So… I'm thinking…

But give it a try if you're curious about it. I will try it a little more, and I'll see if there is a place for it in my already too long list of social media accounts.

I just found out about WAFRN and... Yes!!!

(it's a tumblr-like that uses both ActivityPub and ATProtocol natively!)

https://app.wafrn.net/

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #ATProtocol