Justin Bank

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Here's a reminder for my stream with Alex Gibney, happening this Tuesday at 9 am Pacific/Noon Eastern. Add it to your calendar, and let's make this the biggest stream the AT Protocol has ever seen!

if you want to be more independent of bluesky, the easiest way is to move where your account is stored. pds moover makes finding a new home for your account simple, and takes advantage of bluesky's locked-open tech to ensure a single entity take away your relationships or can't delete your posts.

Well. The payola scheme is working @schlage.town

Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng

Meanwhile over on Meta platforms ….

Montgomery County, Maryland. Sept 17, 2026.

For @motherjones.com, I looked into how Meta could be using disabled people to promote its Meta glasses to the masses. As one expert told me, “companies have used accessibility...as a Trojan horse for a tool that poses significant privacy and security threats.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Incredible opportunity to help determine how the future of the open social web works.

The whole :thread: is a master class in how a best-in-class subject matter expert (in this case ad tech) can thoughtfully skeet-thread with nuance and respect to critics. Also deeply interesting!

Yes. And … Pioneering the open social web means being open and sending people out with link referrals that create friction towards being the ‘bigger’ platform: pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/bl...

I'm actively seeking book bloggers, indie booksellers, librarians, educators interested in contributing to my HOW READERS DISCOVER BOOKS blog. Info: books.leaflet.pub/about One of my goals: to help boost the book boosters, help people find new ways to discover books, and (of course) boost books.

Great read from @torrent-empress.bsky.social, love that it's addressed to both creator & developer communities, def so much opportunity to better work together and get serious Love that fuck around beginner energy. That try new shit experimental energy. That make it happen collaborative energy!

What a banger from @joebasser.com joebasser.com

Making us believe @timbritton.bsky.social

Whoa. Signal-boosting this incredible public service:

"That timing wasn't a coincidence: it happened when I realized I had more creative energy because I wasn't spending it on the menial tasks of just surviving. I have this boundless creative energy..." brittany-ellich.offprint.app/a/3mrpzcvrhk...

I like Justin's framing of the *poly-platform reality* for creators — imo the most exciting thing w/ atproto is the ecosystem blossoming; already powerful synergy w/ e.g. Bluesky + Leaflet + @standard.site Long term we can bring a greater diversity of platforms onto a shared social substrate

@fabrice-grosfilley.bsky.social @michelhenrion.bsky.social @phillipspobrien.bsky.social @pkrugman.bsky.social @pevohr.bsky.social @maggieappleton.com

Storm knocked my power out last night so still catching up on all the Good Posts. Thanks to @bankonjustin.com for this handy thread 🪡

Get to know the Atmosphere and how this whole decentralization process can work. You own your network, you control who sees you, what you see. Not Elon, not Zuck, not Oracle. Just you and the community you want to build.

With appreciation for to @werd.io's foundational work on identifying the archipelagos and @tessa.germnetwork.com -- whose recent Leaflets on the future of social media are quite inspiring!

I think we've seen enough of the ponzi scheme that is the bet in the other direction. Excited to see this mission articulated so clearly!

Attention is fleeting. Trust, when nurtured, is durable. I like living in this era of the timeline. So much more to look forward to, as well.