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ATmosphere 1.0.0 — Liftoff

This post isn't about the ActivityPub plugin. ATmosphere is a separate plugin from the same small team, for the other half of the open social web: the AT Protocol, the open network behind Bluesky. We're posting about it here because the audience overlaps and the mission is the same. If there's enough interest, we'll spin up a dedicated blog for it. Until then, this is the closest venue. Today is the public 1.0.0 release on WordPress.org. After months of design notes, internal experiments, […]

https://activitypub.blog/2026/05/20/atmosphere-1-0-0-liftoff/

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william ⁂ maggos May 20

@activitypub.blog @kraft

seems to confirm my suspicion that AT is fundamentally less "web focused" (and therefore forever less supportive of independent publishing) than AP.

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George Hotelling May 20

@activitypub.blog @kraft years ago I pitched that Jetpack should offer a websocket server for streaming events to/from WP. It sounds like that would have made a WP-native PDS possible.

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Roscoe Rubin-Rottenberg May 20

Amazing! And yes, I would love a dedicated blog about the Atmosphere plugin.

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Deniz Ege Tunçay 4d ago

@kraft @https://activitypub.blog/?author=0

This is a fantastic plugin. I thank everyone who developed it; as someone who loves archiving all my content on my blog, I will definitely use this plugin.

I assume that if you also add “Status” as a Post type in the ATmosphere settings, when I write social media posts for Fediverse (not blog posts) through the Friends plugin, it will be counted as if I’m writing them in Bluesky as well. Am I assuming this correctly?

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