Small note beforehand: If you've followed me before, you likely know that I write a weekly ATmosphere Report with all the news about Bluesky and the ATmosphere every week, over at connectedplaces.online. These weeks I'm switching it up a little, by splitting the report up into smaller parts and publishing them separately. The entire Bluesky Report will still be published (and emailed) at the end of the week as well.

With that out of the way, here is a collection of interesting links related to Bluesky and the ATmosphere:

• Blacksky founder Rudy Fraser has an extensive article in New_Public that explains in detail how Blacksky works and why it matters: "Blacksky’s rsky guarantees our community a seat at the table, and ensures that we can leave and easily make our own table if we need to".

• The Techdirt podcast has a conversation between Bluesky board member Mike Masnick and Rudy Fraser. They talk about Blacksky, growth, content moderation and more.

• Bluesky CEO: I turned a Twitter research project into a rival company—‘we’ve achieved what a lot of people said was impossible’ - CNBC interviews Jay Graber.

• Wherever you get your Podcasts, a blog on Language in a decentralized future.

• Northsky, the cooperative that is building their own social media platform on ATProto for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, explains their cooperative structure and how they are planning to roll out PDS migration in their latest newsletter update.

• Brainstorming an ATProto Notifications Inbox - a blog post by A New Social's Anuj Ahooja on the potential for an app that gives you notifications for all ATProto platforms.

• did:plc Considered Harmful, a blog criticising how did:plc governance is still fully dependent on Bluesky PBC.

• A helpful explainer video on how ATProto works (for varying definitions of 'helpful').

• An exploration on how to measure the 'health' of the ATmopshere, comparing usage of Bluesky versus all other apps on the network.

• what is anisota.net? - some personal reflections on the new bluesky client Anisota by its creator Dame, as well as some future plans. This response by Bluesky engineer Bryan Newbold is also a good illustration of how Bluesky thinks about decentralisation and building open protocols: allow people to bootstrap their projects by using other product's infrastructure, and let them gradually evolve into their own independent product or platform.

• What happens when you let people on Bluesky control your printer.

• A blog about creating a visual representation of all the post Bluesky. The visualisation itself can be seen here.