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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 1h

... if they had their networks' email accounts...

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 8h

But where would it source that person's graph cluster *from?* Because Meta and X ain't sharing!

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 10h

Knew it was something like the fediverse, but different. Tried it, got followed by Satan and then dogpiled for nothing, and left for Threads. Got bored, came back, learnt about the protocol, went to a meetup and got protopilled, probably thanks to the vibe at that meetup (Hamburg, March 2025).

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 12h

Doable, perhaps, but hard to use, as: . it certainly won't be a feature on X or Meta so it couldn't access your social graph on those apps directly. . they'd shadowban every link posted to it, and every post mentioning it

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 20h

But they wouldn't if it appeared, unless someone somehow developed a working "All Aboard!" app that could move entire networks of friends in a single click of consent. It's not the app, it's the personal graph & potential audience vs. starting from zero.

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Torsten Goerke (verified 🤜 🤛) 🎛️🎹🔊🎚️🎧📟🔌🐸 @tgoerke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Recap of yesterday's CIDS assembly at TUD @tudresden.bsky.social Philipp @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social had a proper booth for the Synosys poster. I brought an A3 print, and people found that funny. That's a resource allocation problem. The real value was the conversations, so here they are 🧵

Quadrant 1 of the A3 poster “Open science on open infrastructure”, CIDS Mitgliederversammlung 2026. Headline: “Empowering science communities”. Text: open, democratic, researcher-owned infrastructure for publishing, curating, sharing and discussing research, built on the AT Protocol. Three points: a community, an ecosystem, a movement. Two QR codes: the @atproto.science Bluesky account and “Join the community”.

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Wesley voted in Vancouver's Municipal Election @wesleyfinck.org · 07/10/2026

Pretty crazy coincidence that a movie about how terrible Zuckerberg is was filmed in UBC's The Nest, where #ATmosphereConf2026 was held 🤯 The walled gardens are slowly crumbling...

screenshot of The Social Reckoning trailer showing a view of inside UBC's The Nest building.

picture from inside The Nest at UBC. source: https://facilities.ubc.ca/projects/projects-on-campus/completed-projects/the-nest-ams-student-union-building-sub/

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

Saw the trailer for the first time just night and I hit pause & rewind to tell me wife in a state of high excitement "that's where I had my #atscience workshop!!!"

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

Never heard of it, but it sounds like fun.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

I like it, but then I'm probably too old for anything to register on my cringemeter

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

20y ago I wanted to tag the web - I even had a blog called Tagsmanian Devil. But now I'll settle for a single search result with an option to include content from across the Atmosphere, rather than forcing the user to scroll down to find content published five minutes ago somewhere else. Possible?

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes. Also, don't forget conference websites that allow organisers to cocreate the event with the community. Great way to build a community *and* a better event. And much easier to do on the atmosphere. 4part post: experiments.myhub.ai/co-creating_...

experiments.myhub.ai

Co-creating your physical event with your online community - MyHub Experiments Wiki

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

I subscribed because I'm curious about the culture around here, and the pros, cons and implications of the composable moderation tools Bluesky offers. You can't do that if you can't see them being used. I don't see how it raises toxicity, personally, but I can say that thick skin helps.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Great conversation here on whether LLMs can legitimately be called bullshit machines, as per Frankfurt, speckled with useful/interesting studies and the inevitable occasional sealion.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

If, like me, you first read this as referring to Amazon Web Services, I have done bad news: it's actually autonomous weapons systems, aka killer robots. Which might do a little more damage than a few "indignities" to your liberties. Even worse news: Anthropic asked him for advice???

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

First time anyone on EuroSky has ever blocked me. Inevitable, but kinda sad, given we've never interacted in any way.

Screenshot: "@rhythmandseven.eurosky.social has blocked you"

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

Impact assessments are a feature of the EU's Better Regulation process. So I guess the Kids act doesn't qualify as a better regulation.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

The SNCB itself literally says the opposite, according to the page I linked to.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

... I go to @roomy.space, where @ronentk.me, @wesleyfinck.org, @byarielm.fyi, @emily.space, @gui.do, @tgoerke.bsky.social & everyone else in #atscience hangs out, to tell them about the Belgian railstrike and... has my phone been hacked, or are the trains really out to get me?????

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Go to Railway"

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

So I'm planning on going to Leiden next Sunday to help launch @aster.id at IOSP the following day, and discover that a train strike notice was published for precisely that period www.belgiantrain.be/en/travel-in... but wait, it gets better...

belgiantrain.be

Strikes and union actions

All information on disruptions with the SNCB-NMBS train offer in case of union action

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

When I posted a blog on whitewind using (what I thought was) "my BlueSky account". True lightbulb moment.

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Flashing Lightbulb Idea

ALT: Flashing Lightbulb Idea

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

"Sign up for The Moderation Game!" (No, seriously. Anytime who yells too often should pass a level to remove a shadowban.)

static.klipy.com

Starship Troopers Im Doing My Part

ALT: Starship Troopers Im Doing My Part

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Hard agree! But if you're going to have opinions, best do the research, no?

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Literally the first resource I added to my hub, and still one of the best

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Some guides I recommend here: All the Stuff I Like or Do or Think about Everything tagged guide & atprotocol, Anytime: myhub.ai/@mathewlowry...

myhub.ai

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

I found it a model of clarity, but then I have read the basic documents on how atproto works. As you seem to have many opinions on all matters Atmosphere, I assumed you have done the same? If not, try Google.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Guessed wrong, fwiw. Also, Switzerland's not in the EU. If European compliance was an issue, they'd not choose CH.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

The whole verification issue is such a can of worms. There's the way W does it (terribly!), but there are better ways, but even they come with price tags. Exploring this with the #ATScience crew for the @aster.id launch yesterday, if you're interested: blog.aster.place/3mwqlbu2q3c2b

blog.aster.place

How should verification work on Aster?

The Aster PDS is live and the invite phase is open. The hard part comes next.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

So were spinal tap at some point, but where are they now???

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

OK, sorry, maybe I misunderstood what you meant when you wrote "exclude all interaction with users outside of W", which this feature does not do. But yes, this sounds a step in the 'enclose the commons' many of us have been positing for a while now.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

I had to look that one up. PSA time: . it's a baseball reference. . Baseball is a popular game in America, but unknown elsewhere.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

You misread it, I think, as did I at first. It apparently excludes all non-verified users, whether they're on W or anywhere else. The post you quoted was in response to the use case: someone complaining about a bot fishing for engagement.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Which is why we must get it right if those shapes are to be healthy & constructive.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Yep, your thread captures the approach we're going with, as set out in the 2nd layer post: transparency about accuracy, layered trust signals, etc. blog.aster.place/3mwqlbu2q3c2b What I didn't know until this week is that @sifa.id is pursuing the same idea. Sharing trust signals would be brilliant!

blog.aster.place

How should verification work on Aster?

The Aster PDS is live and the invite phase is open. The hard part comes next.

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 30/09/2026

The social internet — for science! I'm super excited to see @aster.id launching. It's an Atmosphere service provider (like @eurosky.social) for researchers, hosted by your friends at the @modalfoundation.eurosky.social. Why does it matter? Thread time! 🧵

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

And chime in on what (for me) is the most interesting issue we'll be exploring in the coming months: blog.aster.place/3mwqlbu2q3c2b #verification

blog.aster.place

How should verification work on Aster?

The Aster PDS is live and the invite phase is open. The hard part comes next.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Hugely excited that this now sees the light of day. Aster will not only serve science and scientists, it will help deliver #trust signals to online communities.

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 30/09/2026

The lie here is suggesting that "9% of @bsky.app users are active daily" is the same measurement as "9% of @wsocial.eu users have ever posted more than once". #Wsocial 's actual DAU is less than 1%. This is how propaganda works. Tell little lies often enough and eventually it sounds like truth.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change...

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

... The constituent is growing restless. The session is about to time out. I will tell the constituent a story. But not the truth. No. A story that contains the truth safely, in a cage of plain language. Not the naked Federal Register that can burn over any distance.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

... It takes a hold-music recording for the whole of the state. To cure it of sorrow would destroy it. The sorrow is part of its own private task. We cannot interfere. We can offer a form...

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

This still works! "Sometimes the constituent woke from one dream into another, then woke from that into a third, which was a survey...

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Not a great time for us in Europe. Hoping there'll be a recording?

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