Not Just Us: An AMA with Toni Schneider

Edward Niedermeyer joins to share his insight into how covering Elon Musk for a decade-and-a-half prepared him to go all-in on atproto.

All the news from around the Atmosphere, including FOSDEM, a CFP for next year’s Atmosphere Conf, atmospheric integrations, and more.

Lessons from building the EmDash CMS, a “spiritual successor to WordPress” from principal engineer Matt Kane.

Jim and Alex are back on the livestream for the first time in a while to cover the latest news in the Atmosphere.

Ricardo Méndez is a technologist, advocate and investor who’s been working on the decentralized web for years. He joins for a conversation about how to think about building sustainable businesses on a network that upends all of our assumptions.

The Atmosphere Conf 2027 organizers joined the livestream for some announcements about when, where, and what you can expect from next year’s conference.

John Gruber has been writing Daring Fireball for nearly a quarter of a century, analyzing and cataloging a distinct array of internet ephemera, designer nerdery, and, of course, the meteoric rise of Apple. He joins Jim to talk about what the pre-platform internet felt like, the oppressive sameness of contemporary web publishing, the creation of Markdown, and covering Apple for half of the company’s life.

Paul Frazee and Daniel Holmgren return to the livestream to discuss their recent posts that got them thinking a bit more deeply about work on the protocol and just what atproto is building towards.

Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider sits down to answer your questions about composable moderation, how Bluesky (and the Atmosphere) plans to make money, what makes atproto spaces a true differentiator, and where AI fits on the protocol.

Jim Calabro, Head of Platform at Bluesky, joins to answer your questions about running what is, for now, the biggest node on the atproto network