What’s so interesting about big streamers like Atrioc covering the Feds FOMC livestream in a serious manner is that there are hundreds of thousands of zoomers interested in getting complex monetary policy concepts like Standing Repo Facilities explained as long as they can also spam 6 7 in chat [His Time is Almost Up]( )
This week's Link Collection for the ATmosphere Report #146 is online! A huge collection of links (on-protocol with Semble!) related to atproto from the last week [traverse.connectedplaces.online](
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on how open social protocols provide the European Commission with an opportunity for digital sovereignty, but that this opportunity also comes with a loss of power, shifting their position from network regulator to one-among-equals RE:
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Laurens (@laurenshof.online)
The EC hit X with a 120M fine for DSA transparency violations. But as the European politicians cannot get themselves to leave the platform, it show...
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The EC hit X with a 120M fine for DSA transparency violations. But as the European politicians cannot get themselves to leave the platform, it shows the underlying issues with how the politicians (dont) understand how power works on social platforms. [connectedplaces.online/the-digital-...](
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The Digital Services Act and Theories of Power
The European Commission put a 120M EUR fine on X for DSA violations. But as the European politicians cannot get themselves to leave the platform, i...
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The Digital Services Act and Theories of Power
The European Commission put a 120M EUR fine on X for DSA violations. But as the European politicians cannot get themselves to leave the platform, i...
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Made a new silver ring with a hammered design https://pds.laurenshof.online/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd&cid=bafkreifqh5647m6rsmuxpajitmbjigkg5xdfl6p4v4losks76w77vvtau4
smartphone buying guide that optimises for getting the lowest price in surveillance pricing RE:
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David Dayen (@ddayen.bsky.social)
Instacart prices vary by 20% or more depending on the customer, despite buying the same item from the same store at the same time. Instacart admits...
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this week's fediverse reports has some more thoughts on Threads' user statistics, and about Holos, an upcoming project that allows you to run an ActivityPub server on your phone [connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...](
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Fediverse Report – #145
Holos is a new project to run an ActivityPub server on your mobile phone, more on Thread's user statistics, and an interview with Mastodon&#03...
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Fediverse Report – #145
Holos is a new project to run an ActivityPub server on your mobile phone, more on Thread's user statistics, and an interview with Mastodon&#03...
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I was interviewed about how media can use new social platforms Happy that they explicitly mention why I do this work: sure, big tech bad, but the main point is that social media are collective sense making tools, and thats what makes them so extraordinarily valuable [www.svdj.nl/nieuws/stapj...](
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'Stapje voor stapje de controle terugpakken': hoe media hun publiek kunnen heroveren op Big Tech
Techgiganten bedreigen de democratie en de informatievoorziening, schreven bijna alle Nederlandse media vorige week in een brandbrief aan informate...
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'Stapje voor stapje de controle terugpakken': hoe media hun publiek kunnen heroveren op Big Tech
Techgiganten bedreigen de democratie en de informatievoorziening, schreven bijna alle Nederlandse media vorige week in een brandbrief aan informate...
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New: ATmosphere Report #145, with collections of links to interesting atproto articles for November This time, the links are on-protocol, as a [@cosmik.network@bsky.brid.gy](
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Cosmik Network (@cosmik.network)
Transforming social networks into sensemaking networks https://cosmik.network/ | Building semble.so a social knowledge network for researchers | Co...
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Leaflet (@leaflet.pub)
πŸƒ delightful docs & social publishing πŸ“ try: leaflet.pub/home explore: leaflet.pub/discover lab notes: lab.leaflet.pub/ code: tangled.org/l...
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coming to think of it more: Twitter having a 21% of 'ever used it' vs 8% for Threads is consistent both platforms currently having the same DAU, if you account for platform age difference (18 vs 2.5) and a ~6% annual churn rate [techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/t...](
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Threads is nearing X's daily app users, new data shows | TechCrunch
Threads' mobile app for iOS and Android saw 115.1 million daily active users, representing 127.8% year-over-year growth.
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Laurens (@laurenshof.online)
fascinating that Threads claims over 400M monthly active users while only ~21M of US adults claim to have *ever* used Threads So where are the oth...
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