Mathew Lowry

At the hospital for an appointment with my doctor.

"You don't have an appointment; it's next week."

Shows them the email from their IT system for the appointment, today.

"i'm sorry he's not here, and it's next week."

Butts head against wall in frustration.

"We better find him a doctor".

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Swedish Lapland says Hi with a smiley for #Europeday.

Explaining tangled in 2 easy steps:

Step 1: "What's tangled? It's like GitHub, but on the ATmosphere"

Step 2: "What's GitHub? Think OnlyFans for developers"

Ktsschh boom.

B. Prendergast @handle.invalid

@tangled.org on stage at #EuroskyLive 🥳

"This wait-and-see-posture only hurts users and strengthens and further entrenches Big Tech incumbents."

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

European Commission Chooses to Keep EU Users Locked Up Behind Big Tech’s Gates

Users are always seeking more control over their social networking experience to make it better, whether to improve privacy or enhance flexibility. Interoperability between social networking platforms...

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I think it was a Swedish newspaper that forced you to answer a question about the article before you could comment on it. Back when newspapers had comments.

Someone build them a Bluesky commenting widget that validates if someone read it and sends them back to BS with permission to reply.

Stable, high usage of the astrosky custom feeds, via @emily.space at #atscience. #Atmosphereconf.

I thought it'd be fun to do some YouTube short interviews with people here at #AtmosphereConf, just to ask them about the moment they realised that atproto was worth building on. So here's my very first with @tylerjfisher.com of @sill.social

youtube.com/shorts/oOiS4...
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Tyler Fisher on what his app Sill does in brief, and why he decided to build on Atproto

YouTube video by Mathew Lowry

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And this explanation IS NOT HELPING

bsky.app/profile/ther...

😎😎😎
They do occasionally listen.

Xan López @xanlopez.net

The European Commission (@ec.europa.eu) has updated the top follow buttons on its web page. Mastodon and Bluesky are in, X is out. commission.europa.eu/index_en

Next week I’ll be in Berlin for a European Digital Sovereignty Summit satellite event to help launch @eurosky.social.

So it's time to ask: what does #sovereignty look like in the #socialmedia space?

mathewlowry.medium.com/building-res...

Building resilient social media

Next week I’ll be in Berlin, speaking at a Franco-German “Summit on European Digital Sovereignty” satellite event to help launch…

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Been asking that a lot recently, and have been really disappointed by the responses. So I wrote this for them.

mathewlowry.medium.com/x-strategy-o...

X Strategy or eXit Strategy? A cost-benefit analysis framework

Some considerations to help you clarify your eXit Strategy.

Since getting back from #AtmosphereConf I've spent days reading my notes and some of the material I’d bookmarked, posts I’d saved and photographs I’d taken, trying to get my thoughts into some sort of order. Still working on that, but managed to get out this: 🧵
experiments.myhub.ai/five_days_in...

Five days in Vancouver - MyHub Experiments Wiki

My personal path through AtmosphereConf 2026 was all about making the web social; streams, gardens and communities; and science, AI & news. Welcome to the linkfest

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I had to check it was real.

Apparently "People in countries with lower average AI literacy tended to be more open to adopting AI compared to those in countries with higher literacy... [&] lower AI literacy predicts greater receptivity to AI".

Astonishing! Who'd imagine that? WHAT COULD IT MEAN???

We're definitely back for another 4 years of the jokes writing themselves.

So many good science-oriented features on the upcoming Lea browser, presented at #ATsciemce by @mariaa.bsky.social. #Atmosphereconf.

Finally wrote up my #EuroSkyLive Berlin presentation from last month so that I have something more to refer people to than "watch me bounce around the stage for 19 minutes".

mathewlowry.medium.com/how-newsroom...

How newsrooms, scientific institutions & governments can best use Bluesky

Large organisations need dedicated tools and processes to manage their Bluesky presence and get the most out of ATproto.

If there was one thing I wish was more generally known, it would be the culture of collaboration amongst developers. They're literally inventing the future, mainly in their spare time, and almost no-one notices until it changes the world. It's extraordinary.

Can we have a custom feed which we can use for EuroSky Follow Friday? Hear me out.

It should show you posts
- from people you follow
- with a #euroskyff hashtag (or something)
- and mentioning somebody you don't follow who is on the @eurosky.social PDS

Bravo: getting from "closely monitoring" to "divert all resources" in one post is the best example of motivated reasoning I've seen in literally weeks.

Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social

Ukraine is supposed to be fighting an existential war for survival but apparently has the time and capability to divert all resources to ensuring regime change in Iran. Incredible how many people fell hook, line and sinker for this fraudulent midget

So cool to be in those @eurosky.social figures. I even screenrecorded my migration to help other noobs like me, but I won't post it as
a) it's embarrassing
b) the process is only going to get easier

Gr8 job @sherif.eurosky.social, @seabass.bsky.social, @baileytownsend.dev & @eriko.eurosky.social

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu

🥇🥈🥉 Top 10 open & community PDSes right now (unless I'm missing any, then let me know!) (the numbers might not always be up to date, especially since my scanning script is kinda broken rn, but I ran it manually now)

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Interesting! Here in Brussels we recently cut the speed from 50 to 30. One year later, deaths are down 50%, transit times are stable. www.rtbf.be/article/bila...

Bilan zone 30 à Bruxelles : le nombre de victimes sur les routes divisé par deux

Le 1er janvier 2021, rouler à 30 km/h devenait la norme en Région bruxelloise. Un an plus tard, quel bilan tirer de...

Didn't get to ask my question, so here they are @anna.wsocial.eu (I'm in the room :))

But firstly, welcome to the Atmosphere! It's always great to see another app join the OSW (open social web).

This is exactly what is required for @atproto.science.

@robin.berjon.com when we get back to Brussels let's catch up with @davidmair4.bsky.social about getting the EU open data portal and the JRC's data repository onto this. Probably not in that order:)

About to take off to #atmosphereconf LFG!

Huge shoutout to the @eurosky.social team for last week's #EuroskyLive in Berlin. Here's my "one week later" first take: mathewlowry.medium.com/politics-mee...

Politics meets protocols in Berlin

What happens when you put politicians, media businesses and protocol engineers in the same room to discuss European sovereignty?