Notices by Anuj Ahooja (quillmatiq@mastodon.social), page 3

I've been using this framework to explain The Atmosphere to average users for the last few months with decent success.

When I guide them from the negatives of their existing accounts to The Everything Account, it almost immediately clicks in a way other explanations haven't before.

I wrote about what I've been calling "The Everything Account"

If you're familiar with The Atmosphere, you already know how to get one, and this should hopefully help you explain it to others.

For those of you who aren't, you'll be surprised to know that you may already have one; here's how you use it: https://www.augment.ink/the-everything-account/

Eurosky PDSes have arrived, and you can register to migrate/create your Atmosphere account now!

https://www.eurosky.tech/register

Signal is a damn good product, regardless of its flaws. It's a great option for most people.

You want people to use a decentralized messaging service? Build one that's better than Signal.

I know a lot of folks are harping on using Matrix because Signal went down today, but I can't recommend a tool that I, a technical person, find unusable to non-technical people.

It diminishes the argument of why these tools are better for them when a usable product with the same ethos emerges.

My goal isn't to get everyone on a specific technology or organization's work, it's to help people get on software that respects their agency

Cowards. https://www.theverge.com/policy/859902/apple-google-run-by-cowards

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@altstore/115980118016878058

Banger.

@dansup Skylight is built on the ATProto and cross shares videos with Loops for users who bridge 🙂. They also aren't VC-funded!

UpScrolled isn't VC-funded either, but it is closed, though, so hate on them all you want

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/115939927948540108

We're now live! Join us at https://stream.place/quillmatiq.com

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/115939927948540108

Giving this whole live-streaming thing a shot!

First time, so expect technical and human difficulties.

@mike This is untrue. There are a number of independent apps across various verticals. Blogging: leaflet, pckt, offprint; Streaming: stream.place; Short-form video: spark; Git: tangled; and so many more, and none of them are directly dependent on Bluesky whatsoever.

This doesn't even count the microblogging competitors coming up that are full-stack independent of Bsky as well (Blacksky, Northsky, Gander, Eurosky etc.)

@mastodonmigration @mmasnick

@mastodonmigration Hm, no - Truth is built on Mastodon code, W isn't built on X's code

@mastodonmigration Not quite - they haven't said how it'll interact with the rest of the ATmosphere. The client has been forked, and they have a PDS, but it's all still interacting with the rest of the ecosystem.

This is a profile from W's dev PDS showing up on Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/w15.dev-pds.wsocial.eu

RE: https://mastodon.social/@shoq/115936274445536023

As far as we know so far, W's starting with a fork of @bsky.app's social-app client (https://stage.wsocial.eu/) and have a PDS set up (https://pds-prod.wsocial.eu/).

Seems like early days for now, so I wouldn't expect a whole lot more info soon, but it looks like a lot of ATProto devs will continue to keep an eye on it and see if any changes are being made.

Here's a post from W's dev PDS on @bsky.app: https://bsky.app/profile/w15.dev-pds.wsocial.eu

I believe in building things that help users make decisions that are right for them, not looking down on their choices and writing them off wholesale

I falter on that mission more often than I'd like to, but I luckily have incredible people around me that help me get my head straight

You could use Bridgy Fed to convince folks on ATProto why ActivityPub is better and point them to Bounce so they can migrate without losing their network.

Disengaging is counter-productive to success. You don't win hearts by ignoring them.

@Gargron Any reason why? If there's accounts you don't like there, we have pretty extensive blocking features, including adding ATProto blocklists that pre-block a lot of negative accounts.