AT-coop EU / Bluesky Genossenschaftsinitiative

Also new in v1.109: custom feed operators now receive more interaction events.

If you run a custom feed, now you'll know when people like, quote, repost, reply, and see posts in your feed. All valuable signals that can help you drive higher-quality recommendations in your feeds.

Banner announcing Rose Wang, COO, Bluesky and Bryan Newbold, Protocol Engineer, Bluesky as speakers for the Eurosky Live conference. Eurosky Live takes place in Berlin on 19 November. Further details available at eurosky.social/eurosky-live

The @bsky.app team will be at #EuroskyLive in force with @rose.bsky.team and @bnewbold.net. We're delighted they will be joining us as speakers.

Growth Rates 0.20 users/sec Last 5min Rate Projections (based on last 24h) 39,917,011 End of Day Users 0.30 users/sec Avg Rate Today Oct 31, 06:02 40.00M Users 52.0 Posts Per User Oct 31 40.00M Users 6 284.4 Likes Per User 41.58M End of Year (Dec 31)

#Bluesky ist auf dem besten Weg, die Zahl 40 Millionen User:innen an Haloween zu erreichen 🎃👻 🎃

Saving democracy for the price of a swimming pool Ten walking-minutes from where I live in Oslo, Norway, there's a large pool that opened at the start of this year. I love this pool; I wa...

Zehn Gehminuten von der Wohnung von @erlend.sh entfernt, gibt es in Oslo ein öffentliches Schwimmbad, dessen Bau etwa 200 Millionen Dollar gekostet hat. Diese Summe würde ausreichen, um unsere Demokratie zu retten, glaubt der norwegische Open-Source-Experte.

blog.erlend.sh/saving-democ...

Rechtsschutzverunsicherung (mit Chan-jo Jun und Jessica Flint) Wir konsultieren unsere Rechtsexpert:innen - denn es haben sich in den letzten Tagen einige Fragen angehäuft, mit denen wir aufräumen müssen: Was sind Anreize, wo erleben wir - womöglich illegale - Da...

KI-Chatbots durch einstweilige Verfügung daran hindern, Falschinformationen zu verbreiten?
Gelten Menschen, die dort Videos hochladen, möglicherweise als Angestellte von TikTok?

Die große juristische Aufarbeiten - heute mit @jun.de und Jessica Flint:

Great to see @gandersocial.bsky.social doing so well with their fundraising effort! www.frontfundr.com/gandersocial

Warum interessiert sich die AfD für militärische Transporte? Die AfD nutzt parlamentarische Anfragen, um sensible Informationen zu erhalten. Thüringens Innenminister sagt nun: im Auftrag Moskaus.

Die Anfragen der AfD, eine "Auftragsliste des Kreml"? Dieser Eindruck entsteht bei den Anfragen der AfD zur kritischen Infrastruktur Deutschlands. Allein der Verdacht ist eine Frage nationaler Sicherheit, der eine klare Abgrenzung notwendiger denn je macht. Die Partei gefährdet unsere Sicherheit.

Ein Ausfall bei AWS hat weltweit für Chaos gesorgt – Zoom-Meetings platzten, Online-Behördendienste fielen aus, Apps standen still.

Zum Kommentar: heise.de/-10794622

Social and news trends Social media referrals to news sites have decreased by about 30% over the last 3 years. X and Threads Threads has essentially tied X in mobile app daily active us...

Der Traffic, der durch Social-Media-Plattformen zu den Top 100 Nachrichten-Websites (global) gelenkt wurde, ist in den vergangenen drei Jahren um rund 30 Prozent eingebrochen: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

TikTok Won’t Say If It’s Giving ICE Your Data Changes to TikTok's policies make it easier for the company to share users’ personal information with governments. TikTok did not respond to questions about the changes.

Gibt TikTok User-Daten zum Aufenthaltsort an Trumps Abschiebe-Truppe ICE weiter?

Laut Emily Baker-White, imho die profilierteste Journalistin zum Thema TikTok, sei dies nicht ausgeschlossen:

www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

"The thing is, once you agree that the Europeans have been naive in entrusting our digital spaces to a few American Big Tech companies and TikTok, then there are basically two options:

- you build a European version of Meta
- you work with open protocols"

A quote from Joe Mulhall, Director of Research at Hope Not Hate, reading: "He's a tech utopian with no attachment to democracy." In the background, the silhouette of a man in a suit can be seen.

We're asking organisations and individuals if they would trust the owners of Big Tech platforms with community building in any other context.

Unsurprisingly, many wouldn't. So, why do they online?

We're showing them the alternatives.

#SocialMedia #SocialWeb #TechBro

The Chat Control debate shows why digital sovereignty matters to everyone.

It's about controlling your own data and maintaining independence. Understanding this has never been more important.

Read our blog: mailbox.org/en/blog/digital-sovereignty-affects-everyone/

#DigitalSovereignty #Privacy

Gander: The Social Media You Want, Built for Canada Fun, private, and ethical. We're changing the way social media is done around here, all without your personal data taking an unexpected trip down south.

I invested in the early bird round for @gandersocial.bsky.social and cannot wait until I can try it! This is an amazing project. gandersocial.ca

Refuse to Collaborate with Vichy Associates In 2025, choosing to work for a company that collaborates with the Trump regime is a choice.

"Our argument is simple: collaborating with the regime should carry a cost. Getting rich from supporting misery should carry a cost. These people should live through the same disgrace as Vichy France before them."
vichy.associates

For years, the people who work for tech monopolies have been given the benefit of the doubt. Time and again, they have done nothing but take us further into fascism.

I am not willing to tolerate shallow excuses and dithering any more. You shouldn't either.
vichy.associates

Come to Eurosky Live, they're making a lot of people speak!

Democracy has never looked cooler.

ATmosphere Report #139 Link bag - politics, atproto, and some more links

on how the developments on atproto and the open social web are getting more and more intertwined with global politics

plus some interesting links that stood out to me this week

The Defunding of Public Media Is Hitting Local Stations Hardest Public-media stations of all sizes have announced that they will need to lay off staff, reduce programming — and in some cases, close.

Almost three months have passed since Congress defunded public media — and local stations across the country are struggling.

More here: https://www.freepress.net/blog/defunding-public-media-hitting-local-stations-hardest

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Germ DM 2.3.0 is live! 😎📲

We’ve also shipped a new build to our beta users and brought more of you off the waitlist🌻📬

For Germ users in our ATProto beta, your friends will now have a much easier time chatting with you—even if they’re not off the waitlist yet 👀▶️

atproto news you might've missed last month For You Feeds, music tracking with teal.fm, and fandom communities on atproto

im getting back to atproto writing again! slowly catching up with the backlog with @teal.fm , the For You feed, fandom culture on atproto and more

The White House joins Bluesky When a government joins a platform for the purpose of trolling

on the challenges when an authoritarian regime joins a social networking platform to troll

my “For You” feed has gotten really good

Free Our Feeds - Update #4, October 2025 After a brief slowdown for the endless holidays of northern summer, we at Free Our Feeds have been preparing for the next stage of our initiative: writing, speaking, scheming, and planning. Top of lin...

Happy to share latest update from #freeourfeeds campaign, covering highlights from the past few months and outlining upcoming events and appearances. free-our-feeds.ghost.io/free-our-fee...

A note for sports: Bluesky’s engagement rate was x10 higher than X’s across a sampling of identical posts made on both platforms by @rapsheet.bsky.social (sharing with permission)

Fwiw we see a similar trend across all communities, not just sports. Real people, real conversations.

Amazon Cloud Outage Reveals Democratic Deficit in Relying on Big Tech | TechPolicy.Press The AWS outage demonstrates the need for a fundamental shift in how we think about digital infrastructure, write Corinne Cath and Don Le.

"These disruptions are not just technical issues; they are democratic failures." — @ccs.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥
www.techpolicy.press/amazon-cloud...

@robin.berjon.com is a technologist specialised in the governance of technology. His work focuses on digital sovereignty, issues of power in the digital sphere, and bringing democracy to the internet.

Google Zerschlagen! - Das hat Staatsminister #Weimer in einem Interview gefordert.
Was ist bisher passiert? - Nix.
Mehr dazu im Video 👇

Inside the Trump Adminstration's Bluesky Invasion On Friday, after months of internal discussions, federal agencies began posting on the left-friendly social network. Within days, they dominated a list of the most-blocked accounts.

NEW: Inside the Trump Administration's Bluesky Invasion

Spoke with some administration officials who said the move was about "reaching new audiences." It's amounted to trench warfare.
www.wired.com/story/inside...