I spoke about Spark and the broader Atmosphere at the creator economy nyc event last night.
Lots of interested content creators - we have a meaningful strategy here to pull in new audiences to the Atmosphere.
Edited with the @sprk.so photo editor.
sprk.so/post/did:plc...
We’re a week out from the conference & the regional meetups are starting!!!
The ATProto PDX meetup in the Web Dev Challenge studio of CodeTV
The ATProto PDX meetup in the Web Dev Challenge studio of CodeTV
Thanks to everyone who came out to our first meetup - lots of great energy and ideas for future meetups!
Remember:
- We meet 1st Tuesdays @ 6PM, at the @codetv.dev studio
- eventsdiscord.atprotocol.dev #us-pdx channel to stay connected
- Updates will be posted on this account
Thanks @brookie.blog for getting videos onto YouTube!
a majority of the talks from @atmosphereconf.org are now live on youtube ! there are still a handful that need to be uploaded, we are being limited by youtube right now so please stand-by for missing videos.
here's the panel that i spoke on with @darrin.bsky.team @montoulieu.dev and @dame.is
Make an avatar, watch #AtmosphereConf videos (get free popcorn)
We heard there's some atproto fans in Seattle? 🤔
Bluesky Meetup holds its third anniversary event in Tokyo on April 13, Japan time. A hackathon follows on April 18. The world's first Bluesky Meetup took place in Japan in April 2023.
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428lab.connpass.com/event/387582 $ATOPR $cLt7r
Finally finished writing, sorry 😭😅
It was honestly kinda fun to write stuff like this, I might continue by writing about other stuff too :O
Registration is also open for @ietf.org #IETF126 in Vienna, Austria, taking place July 18th -> July 24th. Super early registration ends June 1st.
@cypherhippie.bsky.social is based in Vienna and has said he may be able to get a local venue sorted.
smokesignal.events/did:plc:lehc...
Super early registration just opened for @ietf.org #IETF127 in San Francisco in mid November.
That's a ways away, but @bayarea-atproto.bsky.social should start thinking about it.
smokesignal.events/did:plc:lehc...
It clicked for us in Vancouver.
Germ is a social media messenger.
www.germnetwork.com/blog/germ-is...
Sacrés décalages !
Je suis parti à Vancouver la semaine dernière, le temps d’une conférence dédiée à la communauté des bidouilleurs et créateurs autour de Bluesky (l’ #ATmosphereConf). À cette occasion, j’ai été témoin de nombreux décalages : certains dont j’étais conscient, d’autres que j’ai…
I wrote up some brief notes on conference wrap up tasks, including that we will send a survey discourse.atprotocol.community/t/survey-que...
Feel free to leave suggestions on questions to ask.
Plus: 2027 early research, AtmosphereConf website + atproto blog, & regional events
finally posted thoughts about the atmosphere conf (along with an illustration and a bunch of tweaks to the blog) macwright.com/2026/04/05/i...
Llamando a todos los entusiastas de Atproto en Barcelona!
El objetivo es organizar un encuentro en 1-2 meses para reunir a creadores, desarrolladores y mentes curiosas. Si te interesa o conoces a alguien, responde o escríbeme por DM!
#Atproto #Barcelona #Comunidad #AtmosphereCon
Calling all Atproto enthusiasts in Barcelona!
The goal is to organize a meetup in the next 1-2 months to bring together builders, creators, and curious minds. If you’re interested or know someone who might be, reply or DM me!
#Atproto #Barcelona #Community #AtmosphereConf
presented at atmosphere on the digital anthropology of the community archive!
atmosphereconf.org/event/ats26-...
Since bluesky charts are going around again, here's some about non-bluesky atproto activity that I had buried in the middle of my talk.
1. Users: 2025 slowed, then recent growth. the atmosphere is *small*. it's *early*.
2,3. Development activity: constant steady growth
user growth follows dev
A rocky cliffside annotated to look like a troll reclining is existential dread
A forested mountain with a protruding rock, annotated to look like a person with long air contemplating the sky
Pebbles on a rock beach annotated to look like two silly lil guys
A boulder in a river, annotated to look like a happy toad assembling a cairn
Had so much fun at #AtmosphereConf in Vancouver meeting and connecting with these awesome prospective leaflet users!!!
So grounding!!
I know everyone else is doing it so I should also write some thoughts about my Atmosphere Conference experience. (masnick.com/posts/2026-04-04-the-atm...
Our next meetup is on the books! Join us next week for a beer and discussion all about the social internet. Oh, and some swag brought to you straight from ATmosphereConf...
Some words about my time at #atmosphereconf last weekend.
limeleaf.coop/blog/atmosph...
Skyline view of Vancouver from a beach with very fluffy clouds illuminated above, mountains in background
A sunset over an arcing beach, with a ship and a mountain in the background
A bay with several large barges, mountains in the background
A gaggle of Goosetophers at dusk, with the Vancouver skyline in the background
Some pre #AtmosphereConf photos from around Vancouver
My first ATmosphereConf, and a chapter marker in what has been a yearlong journey in finding my place in the world.
I've been cranking on a new iOS app for @grain.social since #atmosphereconf. Pretty excited to finally get it out to testflight.
Let me know what you think! Aiming to be somewhere between instagram and flickr while giving more control over your feed (with different/pluggable feeds like bluesky).
And, did you know that only the scanner ends up with contact records?
Use @7hird.dev’s You and I to copy records into your account.
Brookie is a cofounder of @standard.site, creator of @pckt.blog, did an awesome design panel, & made @youandme.at
“By the end of the conference, nearly every attendee had made at least one connection. And together, we made over two thousand connections in just the span of a four day conference.”
Conference Takeaways
I’m back from ATmosphereConf in Vancouver, and I'm processing what I saw and heard. The atproto developer community could not have been nicer and more welcoming. Here are some takeaways. ...
https://toni.org/2026/04/03/conference-takeaways/
