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Cloud Formations
shared that she is stepping down as CEO and into a new role as Blueskyā€™s Chief Innovation Officer. , a venture capitalist and Bluesky board member, is set to serve as interim CEO, while they look for a new CEO. Toni later shared impressions from the first week.
announced atvouch.dev, a place to vouch for others skills.
open sourced the code for their app view, shared their monthly operating costs, and there 3 proposals for Blacksky-only posts based on community feedback.
received a $40k grant from the Bluesky team to help champion the FedMC standard towards working with the decentralized web. Follow along at the leaflet publication. They shared that W3C is looking for implementations for DIDs v1.1.
announced support for deploying static websites, webhooks, and more.
announced a paid plan called Leaflet Pro.
brought atprot to e-ink with an app for Kobo called sKeets.
previewed an atproto SDK for Rust.
teased at://wormhole, an Apple shortcut to travel between atproto apps.
An update for is out along with custom HTML elements that can be embedded into any webpage for displaying comments and subscribing to publications.
teases connections between cards.
introduces atproto-smoke, a smoke/e2e suite for testing PDS and perlsky.
, a desktop for atproto is set to release an alpha tomorrow.
Flocks
ATmosphereConf 2026 just passed 300 in-person attendees. Also more sponsors were announced, check them out here.
The lineup of for the first meetup on March 23 was announced.
joined Bluesky looking to fund their first round of critical open source projects.
had their first chat for shared lexicons and is looking for other voices interested in shaping them.
Save the date, is partnering with on an event in the beginning of June.
Whispers in the Winds
opened up conversation about the state of the atmosphere.
PDS migration was in the air this week.
A bug was reported to that stems from undocumented proxying behavior in Blueskyā€™s reference PDS, discussion ensued.
shares some thoughts about the bridging the the dev community and atmosphere userbase.
shares some stats about top collections for non-bluesky PDSs.
edited a video of highlighting the universal identity across the atmosphere.
wrote an article on how atproto and llms could empower communities.
thinks about creating did:onion accounts.
raised an interesting conversation about the third party doctrine and PDS hosts and what that means for ownership of user data.
shared some thoughts about raising funding for atproto.
wrote about community build on social protocols.
write about the risks of did:plc.
There was some discourse around cross-app authentication.
is looking for suggestions on event-stream circuit breakers.
That's all this week,
Chris