Building energy in the Atmosphere

In case you're not following the development of the Atmosphere yet, I thought I'd share the snowballing energy I see every morning when I open Bluesky’s For You feed.

(This is version 2 of this post, published on my experimental wiki using the permanent versions pattern, where I publish a string of versions as I develop my thoughts in the hope of collecting constructive criticism and ideas along the way. Version control is in the footer.)

That energy is flying me to Vancouver for ATmosphereConf 2026 in late March to explore how this incredible technology can change the way we do science. A huge shoutout to Cosmik Network, the team behind the Semble curation app, for sponsoring my travel costs. If you have any questions you'd like me to ask when I get there, just reach out via Bluesky or my Hub.

One morning's news

What follows is a quick summary of the sort of thing I see when I open my phone every morning and navigate to Bluesky's For You feed. In this case it was Thursday, 5 February:

• My friends in the Eurosky team announced the first migrations to @Eurosky hosting. Hopefully my invite is on the way. Register at https://www.eurosky.tech/
• The Margin and Symbol teams announced they’re now interoperable with the bookmarks you create using Margin ("Write on the margins of the internet") appearing in your Semble collections ("Collect interesting links, add notes, and organize them into shareable collections. Build trails others can explore and extend.")
• Someone called TreeThought just made it possible to publish your Obsidian notes (text files which you can sync between all your devices without being locked in) to the Atmosphere using standard.site, a long-form web publishing approach developed cooperatively by three separate teams — Offprint, Leaflet, and Pckt — a few weeks ago. And the integration's bidirectional: you can also browse your subscribed Atmosphere publications and clip them to your Obsidian notes. Download & install
• Meanwhile, Leaflet started to crowdsource ideas for premium features , while pckt.blog announced a new tool for migrating your Atmosphere blog from WhiteWind (the first Atmosphere blogging tool) to standard.site 
• And Dan demoed a new publishing interface which even he cannot completely explain
• Finally, a chap called Andreas “Went to an ATProto meetup, got inspired, built a thing! Octosphere … turns your Octopus research into distributed records that others can react to, respond to and build on”.

Coopetition in Vancouver

Andreas's work is not limited to cephalopod research by the way — https://octopus.ac is a reimagination of scientific publishing in a modular and open form, developed with the funding of the British government’s research funding body.

It'll be discussed, along with Semble and many other science-oriented Atmosphere apps, at atproto.science where I'll run a workshop on how best to encourage this sort of Coopetition in the ATmosphere. I expect this post to evolve a lot in the next few weeks.

Sensemaking posts

Finally, my morning was completed by two blog posts trying to capture and explain the long-term potential of this cooperative energy:

• The Last Social Account You'll Ever Need, by the creator of video-sharing app Spark, now in open beta
• The Everything Account, by the CEO of A New Social, which builds tools like Bridgy Fed, which bridges open social media protocols (think Mastodon <-> Bluesky)

Note that not all of these posts came out exactly on 5 February, but they were all at the top of my For You feed (which finds posts you liked, finds other people who liked the same posts, and shows you other posts they liked) when I glanced at it first thing. For You was developed by SpaceCowboy and runs on his gaming PC because, why not?

Other recent posts I'd recommend in the same vein include:

• Atmospheric Computing by Bluesky engineer Paul Frazee (December 31, 2025)
• A Social Filesystem by the elusive Dan, mentioned earlier (January 18, 2026)

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Revision Notes

This is one of this wiki's pages managed with the permanent versions pattern described in  Two wiki authors and a blogger walk into a bar…

• changes in this version:
  • fleshed out some detail, added other excellent recent relevant posts
• version control
  • this is version: 2
  • this is the current version: Coopetition in the ATmosphere
  • here is the previous version: There is no do everything app 1