Smoke Signal

A new tasty treat for all of you lovely Bluesky folks. The @overcommitted.dev podcast interviewed @ngerakines.me recently and it was a super fun conversation!

Learn about #atproto, why it's so incredibly cool, and how to get involved in open source projects:

overcommitted.dev/ep-19-at-pro...

Walled gardens are killing the open web 🪴

Smoke Signal is different: MIT licensed, ATProtocol-based, your data stays YOURS

For the price of coffee, fight back → opencollective.com/atprotocolde...

It's August 1st and here's the breakdown of how much Smoke Signal costs and where money is going.

Smoke Signal - Open Collective An event and RSVP management and discovery social utility.

Tired of Facebook Events knowing more about your party than you do?

Smoke Signal: open source, YOU own your data, not some billionaire in a hoodie.

Help us keep the servers on for $350/month
→ opencollective.com/atprotocoldev/projects/smoke-signal

Bluesky Report – #127 The impact of the Online Safety Act on Bluesky, E2EE messaging using your ATProto account, various news around PDSes, and more.

this week's bluesky and atproto news:

- age verification in the UK is here due to OSA, including workarounds
- e2ee messaging with your atproto account with @germnetwork.com
- lots about pds migration tools this week

connectedplaces.online/reports/blue...

Bonne occasion d’en ajouter 🤩

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a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a destroyed building and says please disperse ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a destroyed building and says please disperse

Brief hiccup during a deploy.

If you want to get involved with @smokesignal.events there’s lots of work to do

- design design design and lots of UX
- run a local instance
- include the Lexicon into your bsky client
- extend and integrate - eg tie it into Ghost email sending or make a Wordpress plugin

And organizer usage!

YouTube video by AT Protocol Development, Tech Talks, and Events Tech Talk: Smoke Signal Turns One

Thanks to everyone who joined us for Nick's @smokesignal.events turns one Tech Talk.

This was our first time using Smoke Signal RSVPs and manual emailing, but we did get most folks onto the video call.

Here's the recording from the call.

Smoke Signal A place for smoke signal users and developers.

Thanks to all the current Open Collective contributors towards @smokesignal.events infrastructure - @kayrozen.com @librenews.bsky.social rektide @ezraboeth.com

Join us over on the Discourse forum to get involved in features, function, self hosting, governance, and more!

ATProtocol Record Proposal: Event Transfer Records Overview This proposal introduces the community.lexicon.calendar.transfer record type for the ATProtocol ecosystem. This record serves as a “sidecar” mechanism to indicate when a community.lexicon.cal...

I've been thinking about a new ATProtocol record type to solve a common problem in decentralized calendars: event ownership transfers

Picture this: you create an event for someone not yet on-network, then they join and want to claim it. How do we handle that transition smoothly? #lexicons

Downloading .ics Files For Events The Download .ics feature allows you to export Smoke Signal events to your personal calendar application. This feature helps you keep track of events you’re attending directly in your preferred calend...

Read more about this feature on Discourse.

discourse.smokesignal.events/t/downloadin...

🎉 .ics downloads are back! 🎉

When you RSVP "Going" or "Interested" to an event that is scheduled and has a start time, you'll see a "Download .ics" button appear under your RSVP status.

In just over 30min, we'll be kicking off our @smokesignal.events tech talk.

Zoom link in your email for those who RSVP'd, or available on the blog for subscribers atprotocol.dev/tech-talk-sm...

Smoke Signal - Open Collective An event and RSVP management and discovery social utility.

WOW! From our traffic logs and usage analytics we can see that widgets are really popular. The user fingerprinting data shows that ...

JK we don't do that shit.

opencollective.com/atprotocolde...

this says 20 going 8 interested

there's gotta be at least 1-2 more protocol enjoyooors among y'all that will be in NYC on the 22nd, u should come. a bunch of cool people will be there, I'll present a bit about payments stuff.

🚀 Your events. Your data. Your rules. Smoke Signal is an event platform where YOU actually own your events - not some tech company. Built on ATProtocol, it's time to take back control. #OpenSource #EventManagement

Tech Talk: Smoke Signal Turns One ATProto Tech Talk, July 24th, 2025: Smoke Signal developer Nick Gerakines returns to give an update on where the events & RSVP platform is at, a year after he launched. Written in Rust, open source, a...

Please join us for our next Tech Talk, this Thursday, July 24th at 9am PST / 12pm EST / 1800 CEST.

We'll be hosting @ngerakines.me, founder of @smokesignal.events, to celebrate the one year anniversary, re-write, and re-launch with community lexicon, and open sourcing!

Woo hoo! Feels great to be using ATProto built events.

Many more things we can build and integrate directly into different Lexicons and apps.

RSVP on @smokesignal.events for the Smoke Signal Tech Talk with @ngerakines.me this Thursday!

Next week BHNT 105 "MechaHacker" is planned to happen on board of @c-base.org

bhnt.c-base.org/2025-07-29-n...

Please register on @smokesignal.events and bring your hacks!

smokesignal.events/did:plc:mho5...

Smoke Signal - Open Collective An event and RSVP management and discovery social utility.

❌ Facebook Events: Your data helps them sell ads
✅ Smoke Signal: Your data stays yours

Built on #ATProtocol for true identity and data ownership. Support open source event management: opencollective.com/atprotocoldev/projects/smoke-signal

This is very experimental. Things might change or break without a lot of notice. We're figuring this out together and would love your feedback as we refine it.

We're genuinely excited to see the creative stuff you come up with.

Read on how and why this came to be on our blog for more background.

For developers: it uses XRPC with events.smokesignal.automation.InvokeWebhook and handles test, rsvp.created, and event.created events.

You'll need a DID like did:web:your-thing.com#SmokeSignalAutomation.

Reference implementation: tangled.sh/@smokesignal...

Webhooks User Guide Overview Smoke Signal supports XRPC webhooks through a configurable webhook service that implements the events.smokesignal.automation.InvokeWebhook XRPC method. This experimental feature allows you to...

We just shipped Smoke Signal XRPC Webhooks!

Real-time notifications for your community events are here. Our experimental XRPC webhook system makes building custom integrations super easy.

Guide: discourse.smokesignal.events/t/webhooks-u...

ATProtocol gives us strong identities, authenticated XRPC, and typed interfaces. But what about ephemeral event data that's protocol-adjacent? I've been exploring XRPC webhooks — a new way to handle real-time events while leveraging ATP's strengths. 🧵

New Blog Post! XRPC Webhooks: Protocol-Adjacent Event Streams is a blog post that explores evolving webhooks with ATProtocol primitives like identity services, service credentials, and lexicons.

I think the real announcement here is that Smoke Signal has some experimental XRPC methods that provide event views. The next step is to figure out where the divide is between @lexicon.community and @smokesignal.events owned methods. #atprotocol #atdev

HTML Event Widget You can use the Smoke Signal Event Widget to display events on your website. Important: This is a release candidate. Please expect and report issues in Discourse. Quick Start <!doctype html> <html l...

Did you know that you can embed an event on your website using a Javascript widget? Check out the documentation for examples and usage information.

Tech Talk with Nick about Smoke Signal after 1 year Back in September 2024, Nick gave a Tech Talk about Smoke Signal, which he had launched in July. Now Smoke Signal has been completely rewritten, relaunched, and open sourced! What’s new, what has ch...

Some of you have already found the next @atprotocol.dev Tech Talk, next Thursday July 24th

As part of @smokesignal.events's 1 year anniversary, relaunch, & open sourcing, we're going to have @ngerakines.me come back and talk about what’s new, what has changed, and what’s next for Smoke Signal.