Bryan (they/them) @ atmosphereconf @chaosgreml.in

Fat. Black. Disabled. Trans. Agender. Femme. AuDHD. CPTSD. Hippobear.
Focused on freeing everyone from doing things that don’t bring them joy, and building communal infrastructure that makes it possible.

I've been quietly building kindling.wtf — a regenerative feed layer that removes cruelty without removing controversy.

The idea: your feed shouldn't be full of spite masquerading as reasonable commentary, but it also shouldn't sanitize away legitimate anger at injustice.

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a lot of people clearly don’t know anything about Christianity but felt really certain tapping keys
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There is nothing better than laying in bed with a dog curled up against you while you read a good book.
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I would like to know which thing Ricardo would like Bluesky to stop doing that he thinks wouldn’t immediately be met with about 20% of the user base revolting.

Very curious.
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This is so perfect
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I want to know and understand your thoughts and ideas and imaginings. Everything else is just execution & tools.
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So no, I don’t care if you use LLMs to help you write, because if the core idea sucks the rest doesn’t matter to me and I won’t read it. But if you can’t communicate your great idea because you struggle with written communication, USE THE LLM TO HELP. And then have it teach you what it did.
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The only things I care about when it comes to writing are the following:

1. Do you have an interesting viewpoint, story or thesis
2. Is it effectively communicated
3. Is the writing enjoyable

That first one? The most important one? LLMs can’t do that. It’s also the whole reason people write.
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At the same time, I love that @sharpiepls.com is framing this in benefits for the user. That’s what matters
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“But why is it called ATproto”

and we’re back off to the races!

I also think it’s less about ownership and more about agency. What agency do you have over the interactions and creations you’ve had/made online?

It’s about the agency to move your posts, your friend network, to somewhere else.
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Remember, the only reason we are all debating all this is because we all care, and that’s the thing that matters. Be good to each other. Reach out directly, don’t just post at people.

Have a great weekend!
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It is crucial that we recognize and celebrate those who interrogate the individual, the product, and the group to help us all see more clearly for ourselves and in community with each other.
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Criticism and conversation and debate and disagreement and engaging with each other and writing treatises and reading them and discussing them is how you build a culture.
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Additionally, I will fight tooth and nail to ensure this community doesn’t reproduce the technocratically-focused hierarchy of the general tech industry where unless you’ve shipped a product you’re less valuable.
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A reminder to everyone today(including me): Stop falling for the iceberg illusion.

Just because someone posts a lot about something doesn’t mean they aren’t doing more that you can’t see.

Just because there’s a lot of debate on here doesn’t mean people aren’t talking to users IRL.
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Two things:

1) unsurprising
2) it’s rarely super important that a CEO needs to have a deep knowledge of the industry they’re in. The best CEOs know how to motivate and support the smarter people underneath them and are very good at making smart mid-term bets
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If “atmosphere account” tracks for you, the nerd that spends all your free time talking about and working on this stuff, there’s a very high likelihood it won’t track for your aunt who spends her evenings watching Heated Rivalry and is still on Facebook.
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The idea that any one person owns data that is inherently connective is something I find very funny

“You own your social data”

Nah, fam, you made a secret contract with 40 million people you barely know & move in an uncertain & volatile dance as to whether your actions will be rewarded or derided
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I think everyone forgot that if you use the word “account” most people have a physical reaction of pain and terror

most people still write their passwords down in a notebook, y’all
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Lmao I love you all but sometimes you baffle me
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still very tickled that people think there’s going to be *one* logo or term for this amorphous collection of generally ungoverned groups that span the entire globe on a locked-open network that anyone can just pick up and use

but guys we GOTTA figure out the ONE phrase we’re gonna use!
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yup! “what you call it” matters less than “does it click” bc people don’t remember anything unless *it matters* to them, and then they’ll remember *anything*
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@quillmatiq.com trying to will a perfect synergy into existence on his own

Doesn’t really matter what it’s called as long as people understand the most important parts about it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 😬😬😬😬
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these silly attempts at agreement on a single term

use multiple! dialects and slang and terms are regional and cultural!

model the world as it is, not as we wish it to be!
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answer: nowhere bc getting everyone to agree on anything is impossible 😂

I've watched five different takes bubble up from this, my poor poor friend
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Reposted by Bryan (they/them) @ atmosphereconf
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I find it so interesting that the data model of starter packs and lists is the same, but the computational affordances exposed for each in the UI are different and incompatible.

This isn't to say they should be merged into one idea, I get why they are branded separately.
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Reposted by Bryan (they/them) @ atmosphereconf
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Hello? Hello? I'm at the top of the Batman Building looking for all the Nashville ATproto developers.
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