Wesley Finck

Going to be speaking about @semble.so in 2 days, join us for the fun! The DWeb crowd is fantastic

IRL meetups are always the best! Really enjoyed meeting up with Victoria folks after having a blast at @dwebyvr.org's #DWebCampCascadia in the summer

"Given an enormous amount of stuff, and some task to be done using some of the stuff, what is the relevant stuff for the task" The relevance problem is still very relevant onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Okay frick it, I'm announcing the project I've been working on. It's called Reams, a markdown editor that syncs over atproto spaces. It works offline, doesn't require a login, and has a bunch of features packed in. Try it at reams.ink, install the PWA for the best experience!

If you live in Vancouver make sure to vote in the upcoming municipal election! I've put some resources together to help with this semble.so/profile/wesl...

Pretty crazy coincidence that a movie about how terrible Zuckerberg is was filmed in UBC's The Nest, where #ATmosphereConf2026 was held 🤯 The walled gardens are slowly crumbling...

Semble is an ensemble of people assembling knowledge

atproto inherently wants to be an unenclosable prosocial coordination medium, MOSAIC is an attempt to articulate how that could work. Very exciting and, more importantly, attainable (with the right support)!

someone please build a bridging-based ranking algo for bsky :) semble.so/profile/wesl...

"Participatory science as a regenerative framework" Excited to be on this panel organized by @luxaritas.com , next week! (Aug 16 @ 2pm ET - virtual) event.sciencesummitnyc.org/list-of-sess...

folks, Semble doesn't have to be complicated! using it to organize and share links is pretty goated.

When is someone going to build a regular search engine that indexes webpages referenced in atproto records? Here's what that could look like: wesleyfinck.org/experiments/...

working with at-tags in semble is going to be very fun! - we can notify the record author of semble activity - aggregate by aturi instead of url - enhance the semble page to include richer metadata (e.g. follow author of record directly in semble) - and so much more :)

NEW: We are piloting a three month virtual residency, for two entrepreneurs with bold ideas for making the internet more human and healthy. This is a paid opportunity to spend time exploring and building, and go from early hunch to conviction and clarity. Apply here by Sept 9: newpublic.org/eir

my fav part about onboarding in an atproto app is that any new user likely already knows existing users and we can very easily help them connect! One reason why open social graphs are amazing.

Some reflections on my most recent trip to China. Curious if any of you have experienced this kind of aliveness elsewhere?

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literally this. As fun as it is to think about all the fun interop features we *could* build for y'all, we also need to make sure we spend our time wisely and solve problems for non-atproto people.

We redesigned the Semble landing page! 🎉 Now with clearer info about what Semble actually does, and a FAQ if you still have questions :) 🏗️ Also a builders section with inspo from our awesome community projects & everything you need to start hacking on the API What will you save to Semble today?

Okay I'm doing it — today @ 1pm Eastern, for one hour: AMA about @leaflet.pub, @standard.site, & atmospheric publishing! 🙋💡📝 Not only is it the last TWO DAYS of our *summer pass* offer, I'm bout to have a new baby imminently so…let's do it now :D Queue up your q's below!

people powered discovery! our secret is that Semble users have good taste and save great content to the network 🤌

I love seeing this: people who stumble across Semble and immediate get it and start curating and connecting right away. "Designed to connect ideas" is exactly it 😀

This is why @atproto.science is so relevant rn This compilation of essays indicates that scientists are most frustrated by insufficient “community tools and resources... Essential infrastructure for sharing, maintaining and building on existing work and data is also badly underdeveloped." >

Algorithmic feeds are like caffeine: addictive but great in moderation. But we also need less stimulating alternatives. Subscriptions in Semble gives us more options on the menu, so we can be more intentional with our choices and how we spend our time online. ☕️ 🛎️

If you're an Obsidian or PKM user, and are interested in the atproto-ification of obsidian and want to chat about your setup and workflows and what you'd find important, I'd love to hear from you! Let's chat, reach out :)

I've been a @zotero.org user for more than 6 years and have thousands of references - I've always dreamed of being able to see who else was reading those references on my virtual bookshelves. That dream is starting to come true ✨ With Zemble, every reference becomes a portal 🌀 >

I love wandering in a neighbourhood then finding a mini library. Semble is like the digital equivalent of that: take a link, leave a link. Let others discover your curated references. See what ppl are reading, etc. Now directly from Zotero!

my hot take is that @semble.so is on par with traditional search engines for atproto related topics (and it's only curated by people!)

Successful @dwebyvr.org Stammtisch and goat cheese tasting from my parents farm @getdweb.net Camp with @wesleyfinck.org @bmann.ca @jasmine-pyz.bsky.social @jacob.cascadia.social @vangarderen.net @hilk.eu and friends!

I love the instinctive reciprocity - it’s what will keep the network valuable as it grows. Take a link, leave a link.

It was really cool to see this setup unfold and helped me understand how Semble fits into an agent stack! Got to chat a bit about this with @laurenshof.online at #DWebCamp2026 too

Our June update is out!

Still confused about what Semble is? Confusion no more!

It's really exciting to think about the ways in which online communities can form and be discoverable when they exist on atproto, this is a great example of that already happening!

friendly reminder to all the atproto product builders out there: make time for user research!

this is incredible! idea -> reality happens way to fast in this ecosystem would be cool to see this kind of behaviour in a browser extension so people could bring it to the browsers they already use? wdyt @chrisshank.com ?