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Jim Ray

@jimray.bsky.team
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DevRel at Bluesky. THE Bluesky. Applied Meteorology is where I write about AT Protocol and the Atmosphere: am.jimray.net Host of Off Protocol, a show about building a better internet: atproto.com/off-protocol

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jacob @edgy55.selfhosted.social · 03/10/2026
To reiterate on a point I've made before, I really wanna see more Neocities-style unhedged rejection of the post-FB web in the AT Protocol world. I imagine a lot of people may see that approach as being more unserious or impractical, but I really do think it's worth trying
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 2h
Nice! Seems like something @mk.gg would be interested in...
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 2h
Any new ecosystem project Jaz releases is worth your attention, but this. This is drop-what-you're-doing worthy.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 17h
In a world where so much tech is becoming horrid and authoritarian, the solution has to look somewhat atproto-like: decentralized and transparent. And so, if you care, it’s sort of your responsibility not to make these spaces a crab bucket
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 2h
Give me a shout if you want to chat
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ATProto PDX @pdx.atproto.camp · 3h
📣📣 Hey #PDX!! We're hanging out with Bluesky's CTO @pfrazee.com TMRW to chat about crazed visions for the atmosphere Join us!
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ATProto PDX: October Meetup
It's time to join your fellow idealists, builders, and shitposters for another meetup about the atmosphere! Together, we’re doing our part to create a more social web so the internet belongs to us, Th...
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 3h
Awwww! Congratulations!
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 3h
And yet you recently posted a photo of yourself with a BUTTERFLY. Curious.
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 4h
Alas my work travel karma appears to have flipped and I won’t be able to make it to Toronto for @protocolsforpublishers.com I hope everyone going has a wonderful time, tell your bosses to get off Facebook and Twitter! Own your destiny, we have the technology.
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 5h
Guess I'll have to register another jimray again
Agent Kay lamenting that he'll have to buy the White Album again to agent Jay in MEN IN BLACK (1997)
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 6h
Royale with Saturday
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 6h
Working on it! Just haven’t integrated that into the workflow yet.
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 6h
I know many of our European listeners were already enjoying the bourgeoise decadence of their “weekend” when this episode dropped, ICYMI
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Bailey Townsend 🦀 @pds.dad · 18h
@blackskyweb.xyz's account onboarding for new accounts is so nice. I missed the pictures but the very first slide was on the community labeler and guidlines. They do a great job highlighting other apps on the Atmosphere and that their account works everywhere, default For You feed as well
shows a list of atprotocol apps you can use with your blacksky account First page load of blacksky is the foryou feed
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tierney cyren @bnb.im · 02/10/2026
made a little post, it's hopefully helpful for people who are looking for what the Atmosphere is in contrast to what Bluesky is
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What is the Atmosphere: An Untech Introduction
An introduction to the ecosystem that a lot of people care about and all trying to figure out how to communicate effectively. Maybe this will help a bit.
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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 02/10/2026
Here's the first update on the FedCM grant that I've been working on, which admittedly is quite behind schedule due to my chronic illness. Hoping to get more out quicker in the future.
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Update #1: Getting started and keeping momentum
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 03/10/2026
two follow-up threads from the Atmospheric Groups working group this past week... what NSID should be used for the lexicons? I'm personally leaning 'opensocial.group' these days. what do you think?
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Atmospheric Group Terminology and NSID
As an update, the tangled repo and current version of the proposal use opensocial.group. I’m now leaning towards that name personally. It is a bit friendlier, retains more of the history of this WG a...
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 02/10/2026
Working through the backlog of recordings, I'm very excited for this one to go live. @ricardo.bsky.social is so insightful, a little spicy, I always learn something when I get a chance to chat. Queue this one up for your weekend listening
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 02/10/2026
Still feel thankful I got to tell you that in person, before the sake was even served!
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 02/10/2026
Appreciate the feedback, Spluderman. The atproto website is more dev, not necessarily consumer, focused. It's not a product you use but a protocol for developers to build the next great short form video meme apps. You use websites every day, you've probably never been to w3c.org — and that's great.
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pckt.blog @pckt.blog · 02/10/2026
tiny blogs, BIG gay october 🌈 from oct 1–31, pckt is donating 100% of our october earnings to LGBTQ+ charities and mutual aid funds. please repost 🔁 and tell us in the replies where we should donate. we’re so glad you’re here. let’s do something big together pckt.blog ❤️🩵💚💛
pckt.blog
pckt: a blog in your pocket
A distraction-free space to write and share your story. Just you, and your words.
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 02/10/2026
You'll just have to tune in!
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 02/10/2026
This was early days, before there was an app or @rude1.blacksky.team had built anything beyond the original feed, but @blackskyweb.xyz was what got me to first pay attention and dig in to understand what was happening with this protocol thing.
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💭 arushi @offline.arushibandi.com · 02/10/2026
happening tuesday! let's make sure all sf atproto folks see this and thanks @bsky.app supporting funds for pitchers :)
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brendan @schlage.town · 02/10/2026
I want to hear how we can help folks make 💸 on @leaflet.pub ✅ paid memberships for publications is in alpha; what next? Ways to sell one-off access to a publication, or a single post? More options for what unlocks a paywall? Something else? What would you find most useful today?
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 02/10/2026
Ok, hear me out. You drop by Off Protocol, the podcast I host about atproto and building a better internet, with questions about how all this works and I try to explain it with minimal acronyms. atproto.com/off-protocol
atproto.com
Off Protocol - AT Protocol
A podcast about the AT Protocol and the open social web.
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 02/10/2026
🤔
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 02/10/2026
After several Very Special livestreams, @alex.bsky.team and I are back at it but on Thursday. Why Thursday? Why indeed.
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 02/10/2026
Story of my life.
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 02/10/2026
Oh damn, that's pretty good.
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Lia Belle @liabelle.me · 02/10/2026
The wait is over! @mu.social (Early Access) powered by @eurosky.social is now available on Google Play (screenshot) 🥳 Reminder to log into @mu.social on Android using your Bsky, Eurosky or any ATProto account 🙂 #eurosky #mu.social #android
@mu.social (Early Access) by @Eurosky.social is available on Google Play
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 02/10/2026
"Fuck My Bits Up"
Album cover for The Prodigy's landmark album The Fat of the Land. The salience of this to the joke in the post is left as an exercise to the reader.
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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 02/10/2026
day 2 of weird web october jennschiffer.com/www/wwo26/02 💥
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jenn's weird web october 2026 | 02. spark
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 02/10/2026
Hm. Can I get a ruling on this one @aka.dad?
A screenshot of a post from @aka.dad posted being used in a hotdog detector app.

The screenshotted post reads: who else kisses the tip of the hotdog before they eat it 🙋🏽‍♂️

The hotdog detector has rated this "Not hotdog" with a probability of 32%. Honestly, seems about right.
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 02/10/2026
Thank you! We gave everything a refresh when we moved over to @bsky.network, always open to feedback bsky.network/docs/bluesky-api/custo…
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Custom feeds | Bluesky Protocol Services
Custom feeds are algorithmic feed generators. To users, this is their timeline. This tutorial will explain how to interact with a feed generator in the network.
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 02/10/2026
No One Is Talking About This
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 02/10/2026
That only works if your chapeau is a hattie
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 02/10/2026
Anything specific come to mind? One challenge is we have to help folks un-learn as much as learn.
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 01/10/2026
Interesting. Verrrrrrrry interesting.
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 01/10/2026
Block Kit. Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time…
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 01/10/2026
Ooooh, SIWS++. I think this gets a little thorny with how we do OAuth but I like this direction (FedCM will also probably help solve it once it gets baked into the browser)
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devin ivy 🐋 @divy.zone · 01/10/2026
it's that day of the week where we ship the latest changes to the atproto spaces alpha! if you're interested in building against atproto spaces while it's in alpha, right this way: atproto.com/blog/atproto...
atproto.com
The Atproto Spaces Alpha is Live
Atproto Spaces, formerly known as “the permissioned data protocol,” is a new extension to atproto that enables non-public data. The alpha is now officially open. Here’s how to develop with it and what to expect as we work towards the full release.
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 01/10/2026
Apps like @leaflet.pub, @pckt.blog, @offprint.app , @grain.social , @blackskyweb.xyz , @eurosky.social , @stream.place and @germnetwork.com are built on atproto. We call this "the Atmosphere" because we're nothing if not clever (right?)
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 01/10/2026
We're working on making this easier to understand! Similar to how the http:// in your web browser points to a website, "atproto" is the open protocol that Bluesky is built on. Other apps use the same tech and we want to give them more prominence in Bluesky.
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 01/10/2026
Threads's topic tags are (I believe?) manually curated by Facebook, which is obviously not very Atmospheric. What do you think would be a good mechanism for making them accessible and also open-ended / ecosystem-driven, without getting into the thorniness of folksonomies?
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Darrin Loeliger @darrin.bsky.team · 01/10/2026
We want to make it easier for creators to link out and attract financial support, so we're exploring a new feature that lets you add links on your profile. They show up as buttons under your bio.
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 01/10/2026
Alright, you heard the man. How can we make the app more Atmospheric?
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 01/10/2026
My pal Colm with an important and seasonal lesson on knowing what your system of record is
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 01/10/2026
Please take the Atmosphere survey that @lou.gg put together! We're paying attention on the Atmosphere team and it will help inform what we work on.
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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 01/10/2026
Robin you have such a way with words. And now I have to change what I was making for dinner tonight.
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