We’re excited to post this update from our new Leaflet blog - the Cosmik blog has officially moved to the Atmosphere!
Leaflet doesn't yet support segments, so those of you who originally signed up for the Major Updates segment may see slightly more posts than usual. But we'll keep the volume low, promise.
Since our launch last November we've been feeling the power of open social ecosystems firsthand, and moving to an Atmosphere-native blog lets us experiment more fully with integrations.
Open ecosystems are rising tides that lift all boats. As a timely example, just this week, Bluesky launched their integration with , the standard powering Leaflet and other AT Protocol longform publishing platforms. This integration makes it easier to discover and share articles and newsletters across the Atmosphere.
Cosmik
and completed the BiTS accelerator at the end of May, and pitched their program to funders in a Washington DC event organized by Renaissance Philanthropy! Stay tuned for more details (spoiler - raising funds for ATProto Science as a key pillar for the future of science publishing and communication)
Earlier in the month, gave a talk at about Cosmik and their broader ecosystem building:
One theme was sustainable ecosystem economics. Specifically, how circular funding models (where app subscriptions partially flow back to the broader ecosystem) could help open infrastructure become self-sustaining:
Semble
We've been working on a full-featured Semble API for the upcoming Modular Interoperable Research Attribution (MIRA) workshop - expect the launch in early June!
We started working with on Semble integrations with Zotero & Obsidian! Please reach out to us or to Chris if you would like to help shape these or be part of a community conversation. We'd love to hear how you're using (or want to use) these integrations.
I'm going to be exploring integration as a theory-of-change with @semble.so! Augmenting existing knowledge tools like Zotero, Obsidian, etc. with the collective sense-making happening on Semble. If this is something you would find helpful I would love to hear more about what you're looking for 😄
also experimented with a Soma, an experimental graph interface on Semble data. It also lets you compare your cards with another profile, Goodreads vibes circa 2009
Worked on Soma this week, a fun little experiment for @semble.so. Visualize your cards, see how much you have in common with others, and get a fingerprint of how you collect (volume, velocity, diversity, focus)
Housekeeping
We resolved a longstanding login issue for Semblers with self-hosted Personal Data Servers (PDS)
We fixed an issue with our Firehose ingestor that was causing non-Semble (, etc) data to go out of sync
Community
The community was COOKING this month! (and this is even without a full API 😅)
shipped disjecta, a Discord-to-ATProto bridge that also includes Semble support, enabling you to sync URLs from any channel to a Semble collection. We love this pattern of surfacing links from Discord conversations into Semble, where they can find a wider audience and become part of a lasting, discoverable knowledge network.
shipped Semble support in , their excellent ATProto automation platform, and community members wasted no time putting it to use. The flagship workflow: like a Bluesky post → every link in it gets auto-bookmarked to Semble. set up an automation routing starred GitHub repos directly into a Semble collection for ATProto-related projects:
TLDR in English Just did an automation using @airglow.run that will save me so much work from now on Every tangled repo I give a star will now be saved into my @semble.so collection for atproto-related repos, using the permanent URL
hooked it up it with 's Obsidian plugin to pull Semble bookmarks straight into their notes!
oh yeah. this is working. with @airglow.run I now have my likes with links auto bookmarked on @semble.so , and then @treethought.xyz 's beta Atmosphere Obsidian plugin pulls them into an easily accessible list - I no longer need to paste links into one dump file. Excellent.
On the ATScience side, added a share-to-Semble integration in :
So so excited about this and some of the opportunities to connect this into the #ATScience ecosystem. Shipped some small hints of that last week with @ronentk.me for (lite, v1) @semble.so integration.
is building Marker, an ad-free mobile browser for reading and annotating. Bookmarks sync as Semble records and Margin annotations via ATProto, with a companion mobile app in the works!
Once @lazurite.stormlightlabs.org reaches the app stores...my next big push is gonna be bringing @semble.so and @margin.at to mobile
built Semble Follow Sync, a web app that bridges your Bluesky social graph with Semble:
new tool from me, a webapp you login to with oauth (!) to sync your bluesky follows to @semble.so so that you can fill your following feed over there with people you follow here already! login and run it at bsky-follow-semble.vercel.app
More experiments at the frontier of modular publishing, AI and Semble - built Stigmergic, an ATProto app using AI to synthesize clusters of Semble connections into short narratives, with an optional OXA integration to publish them in modular format. Check out this example synthesis of a 644-edge discourse graph (!)
Finally, dropped a teaser for a <> Semble integration 👀
On our radar
's Collective Intelligence collection
I've been gesturing towards the idea that: 1. Groups can be smarter than individuals 2. Proven in other fields and species 3. Social protocols + sensemaking make it buildable I'm trying to gather papers, books, etc that lend precedent or otherwise support the idea Open contributions via @semble.so
The Trace and the Artifact - excellent piece making the case for the rising value of research traces (what actually happened, hypotheses tested, experiments conducted) in the age of AI. Lots of synergies with our thinking at Cosmik and what we're implementing in practice in Semble: a social layer for recording and sharing reading and synthesis traces (and owning them!)
Nanoarguments - congrats to Knowledge Pixels for a new grant to build a federated graph of scientific claims with Fediverse integrations! Cosmik and ATScience, Nanoarguments - it's great to see similar patterns playing out across open social protocols - bridging informal discourse on social media with more formal science publishing methods (like Nanopublications and Discourse Graphs).
We May Be Entering A Second Axial Age - excellent essay by Otto Scharmer (Theory-U author):
Our information and media ecosystems must shift from attention-fracking to collective sensemaking. We need media architectures that support deep understanding and dialogue rather than polarized echo chambers.
Finally - will be in London for the Foresight Vision weekend June 5-7 - if you're in town and want to meet up please drop a line!
That's all for now!
Cosmik Team