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lots of interesting recommendation patterns from substack like being able to see recommended publications on a publication page. Imagine being able to recommend Semble collections, standard site pubs and so on directly on your bsky profile.

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 9h

Visibility of other atproto apps. We need wayyy more users to approach sustainable levels. Bsky can help greatly with exposing Semble to new users. One idea: recommend other apps after following someone, similar to how substack recommends pubs and accounts. Eg "this user is also active on Semble"

screenshot of substack recommendations after subscribing to a publication

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 22/09/2026

We don’t have any issues on our end and we are picking up events in the firehose. maybe check that events from your pds are being pulled in by the firehose?

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 21/09/2026

Semble is an ensemble of people assembling knowledge

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 21/09/2026

Haha yes you figured it out! Appreciate that :) the logo is also a cairn to symbolize (knowledge) trail marking ;)

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 18/09/2026

would be good to switch to oauth for sign in

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 18/09/2026

we can def change that but that is the most likely reason!

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 18/09/2026

I think we fetch up to 1000 follows from the bsky api, so likely this account just wasn't included :)

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 18/09/2026

very cool, thanks for sharing! is this a bsky client with some prosocial defaults or something?

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 17/09/2026

atproto inherently wants to be an unenclosable prosocial coordination medium, MOSAIC is an attempt to articulate how that could work. Very exciting and, more importantly, attainable (with the right support)!

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 17/09/2026

someone please build a bridging-based ranking algo for bsky :) semble.so/profile/wesl...

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Prosocial Media (by Wesley Finck) — Semble

View Wesley Finck's collection on Semble

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 15/09/2026

looks good! left a comment

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 11/09/2026

thanks for getting some pics!

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 11/09/2026

this is great if you want a deep dive! not necessary to get started :) in a nutshell: organize and share links, connect with others who have similar interests

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 10/09/2026

"Participatory science as a regenerative framework" Excited to be on this panel organized by @luxaritas.com , next week! (Aug 16 @ 2pm ET - virtual) event.sciencesummitnyc.org/list-of-sess...

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 11/09/2026

folks, Semble doesn't have to be complicated! using it to organize and share links is pretty goated.

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 11/09/2026

the other main why is to see how other people are interpreting / contextualizing the same links that you've already saved. E.g. getting a notification about a connection made on a link you've saved can surface interesting content, and so on.

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 11/09/2026

sharing a list of links as a semble collection is also easier to handle as the receiver: easily save any of the links in the list with just a few clicks.

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 11/09/2026

IMO the most common and simple "why" for using semble is "organize and share links with others". You can organize links into collections and people can follow / subscribe to those collections.

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 02/09/2026

no redirect chain dedupe atm, at-tags will help dedupe atproto related links though!

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 02/09/2026

of course it's philosophy related 😂

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 31/08/2026

kagi assistant is incredible

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 31/08/2026

When is someone going to build a regular search engine that indexes webpages referenced in atproto records? Here's what that could look like: wesleyfinck.org/experiments/...

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atproto-aware concept search engine

a mockup of a webpage search engine that only indexes webpages that are referenced in atproto records. Surfaces related links based on social and community context.

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 27/08/2026

working with at-tags in semble is going to be very fun! - we can notify the record author of semble activity - aggregate by aturi instead of url - enhance the semble page to include richer metadata (e.g. follow author of record directly in semble) - and so much more :)

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 26/08/2026

Lastly, most new users find out about Semble through Bluesky (not surprising!)

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 26/08/2026

surprisingly 'atproto' ISN'T the most commonly selected topic, 'software development' is. 'Science' is top 4.

list of topics selected from sembles onboarding with "software development" "atproto" "design" and "science" in the top 4.

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 26/08/2026

Some preliminary product insights from our recent onboarding launch: It's no coincidence that the most popular suggested link is "From Feeds to Trails". People are ready for a new kind of social media experience! leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:ld...

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From Feeds to Trails

To design the future of social media, rethink the interface before the algorithm.

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A virtual residency for founders with bold ideas for the internet

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 18/08/2026

my fav part about onboarding in an atproto app is that any new user likely already knows existing users and we can very easily help them connect! One reason why open social graphs are amazing.

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 18/08/2026

let us know if you end up building anything, I'm sure there are others who'd love to sync some of their browser bookmarks to semble!

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 18/08/2026

might make sense to have that permission anyway though, and you can also fork the extension and directly load the bundle into your browser without going through the extension store if you just wanted to experiment a bit!

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 11/08/2026

not at all, I think its a great way to contextualize your writing and also promote it. Just like posting about it on bsky but in a more durable knowledge format.

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 06/08/2026

2) people-driven recommendation and discovery. Every link from the episode is embedded in rich social context: related links, connected links, collections. Your insights become another persons next read or listen.

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 06/08/2026

sharing links to Semble like this does two main things: 1) gives viewers an opportunity to participate in meaningful knowledge creation (by connecting links, organizing into collections, leaving notes, etc) that can benefit other viewers, by:

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 06/08/2026

This is really exciting to see! I think some magical things can happen when we "free" our links from static pages and let them intermingle in a social knowledge medium like Semble.

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 06/08/2026

thank you for the really helpful feedback and taking the time to share your experience and adding the screenshots!

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 05/08/2026

Some reflections on my most recent trip to China. Curious if any of you have experienced this kind of aliveness elsewhere?

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When The Streets Come Alive

Experiencing the aliveness of public space in China

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 04/08/2026

the other benefit of doing this is that if someone discovers one of these links in Semble, they'll also see which collections it's in and then discover your podcast!

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 04/08/2026

that way your viewers can more easily interact with all the links you want to share, e.g. they can save them directly in Semble, connect other links to them, and so on, allowing them to participate in creating a rich layer of context around each link and collection.

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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 04/08/2026

I would suggest making a collection for each episode then adding all the links related to that episode (the links that normally go in the show notes)

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