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I've been working for some time on an "Introduction to #ATProto" blog post, and it's finally ready 🙂

It goes through basic things like records, lexicons, DIDs, then PDSes/AppView/relays etc. and how it all works together. I hope this should help especially people here on Fedi to understand a little better how #Bluesky and its network works.

There will be more parts later, specifically with comparisons to Fedi, addressing common misconceptions, decentralization etc.

mackuba.eu/2025/08/20/introduc

mackuba.euIntroduction to AT Protocol

Currently updating screenshots of my latest banned posts on mainstream social media for "sexually explicit nudity" (female nipples, including in lineart cartoon pages) on my website page toplesstopics.org/banned

Within the last half year, most of them are on bluesky. Fuck bluesky.

Reminder that #bluesky is just as sexist, misogynistic and transphobic as every other mainstream platform.

www.toplesstopics.orgEvery Time Topless Topics Has Been Banned – Topless Topics

"In the absence of a dominant alternative, the post-Twitter #academic landscape is fragmenting. A small but growing number of researchers are experimenting with platforms like #Bluesky and #Mastodon. Notable too is how researchers are using these new platforms – engagement and collaboration is higher than both on Facebook and X. “Bluesky is more academic-friendly,” said one…
Many are waiting to see whether academic communities gather around a specific online space."
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial

Impact of Social Sciences - Maximizing the impact of academic research · Are newsletters the new academic social media? - Impact of Social SciencesA new reports finds growing interest in more traditional and controlled forms of academic socialisation amongst early career researchers.

Can you actually fork off Bluesky?

Famously, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber has repeatedly told the media if people don't like what the company is doing they can "fork off". That is, they can "leave [and] take their followers with them" (observer.com/2025/03/bluesky-c).

But, now that #Bluesky has done something their users overwhelmingly don't like by changing their Terms Of Service to require binding arbitration, can users actually leave Bluesky for another server on the Bluesky network?

Read on...

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Woman in black t-shirt reading 'mundus sine caesaribus' sits in chair onstage.
Observer · Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Building a Billionaire-Proof Social Media SiteBy Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

From the post of Jewish Voices for Peace on #BlueSky:
Yesterday, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel #Smotrich described the Israeli government’s plan to “annihilate everything” in Gaza.

In 1939, #Hitler began threatening the “annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe.” We all know what that led to.

#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS
#palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel @palestine@lemmy.ml