So, I hooked up my blog to the Atmosphere. For those who don’t know, the Atmosphere is to Bluesky what the Fediverse is to Mastodon – the network that surrounds their respective protocols (AT Protocol and ActivityPub, respectively), and much like the Fediverse has its own platforms (or rather, people hosting platforms), the Atmosphere has its own platforms too, and now my blog is technically a platform on the Atmosphere, I guess?
There has been a collective effort by the blogging platforms hooked up to the Atmosphere (e.g. Pckt, Leaflet, Offprint) to standardise the lexicon and how it’s structured, resulting in the creation of standard.site. And then, WordPress (specifically, Automattic) were like “we want in on the action too”. And now, WordPress blogs can join the Atmosphere, through a plugin that adds their posts whenever a new post is made (and also allows for auto-posting to Bluesky, for good measure)
I’m not sure if I can do this because of the pedophile fascism from the British government, but the Atmosphere plugin allows me to show likes, reskeets1, and replies from the Bluesky network. Furthermore, this post should be readable in anything that supports standard.site. I recall there being a standard.site reader for your terminal, so you could read this on your command line, I guess. I guess this technically means, once you follow me on Bluesky, you’re essentially following my site as well.
If you have an account on the Atmosphere (e.g. Bluesky), you are able to follow my posts here (via Leaflet), but these will get auto-posted to Bluesky anyhow. Thank you Jacob/edgy55 on selfhosted.social for letting me know!
- Posts on Bluesky are called “skeets” – a portmanteau of “sky” and “tweet” – and it stuck because the then-CEO of Bluesky pleaded with the community not to make “skeets” stick due to its other definition. ↩︎