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dame

@dame.is

Creator of @anisota.net + @aturi.to. Design engineer & artist by day, 3 moths in a trench-coat by night. Queer Appalachian (they/them). Avatar syncs w/ the sky. 🏳️‍⚧️ dame.is 🎧 Ride That Dolphin by KNOWER

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dame.is bloggingJul 16, 2026

I’m looking for my next job

Over the past 12 months I designed, built, and launched a dozen apps and experiences on the AT Protocol, including anisota.net, a calmer user interface for Bluesky, and Aturi, a toolkit for navigating the open ecosystem of apps built on the same protocol. Together these projects reached 100K+ unique visitors in their first year, earned me a shoutout from the stage of SXSW, landed me an appearance on CodeTV, and allowed me to present my work at Atmosphere Conference 2026. Before this, I spent a decade growing products, brands, and communities for tech companies in decentralized web, healthcare SaaS, and consumer SaaS.

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Creative WorksJun 4, 2026

CodeTV Appearance

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Web Dev Challenge (a CodeTV production)Jun 4, 2026

Rebuild your website (again) | Web Dev Challenge Season 3

Reclaim your lil corner of the internet with an atproto-powered website. Watch community devs build their own atmospheric websites on Web Dev Challenge from CodeTV.

Web Dev ChallengeCodeTV

Creative WorksApr 7, 2026

From Toilets to Moths: The Future of Social Media is Weird and Not for Everyone

Over the course of 12 months, I created a dozen ATmosphere based projects, apps, and experiences ranging from a decentralized toilet to a client interface named after a moth. Collectively these projects amassed 100,000 unique visitors and over half a million page views. Each project took me deeper and deeper into the world of the AT Protocol and showed me what the future of social media might look like... and what it could take to get there. Over the course of this presentation I shared the lessons I learned and what I think it means for the future of social media.

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Creative WorksJan 1, 2026

Aturi

Aturi is a small toolkit for getting around the AT Protocol, the open network behind Bluesky. It's three tools in one: a browser extension that lets you open the same account or post in whatever client you prefer, universal links you can share that aren't tied to a single app, and a viewer for exploring the raw data on any account's personal data server.

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dame.is bloggingNov 17, 2025

is anisota...?

some informal faqs for anisota

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dame.is bloggingOct 14, 2025

Building an ATProto-based membership and feature gating system for Anisota

How and why I created a "decentralized" approach to paywalls

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dame.is bloggingAug 25, 2025

What is anisota.net?

Some personal reflections and details about the future from the creator

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Creative WorksAug 19, 2025

Anisota

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Creative WorksMay 8, 2025

How to use Bluesky to grow your brand

A comprehensive guide for companies, communities, and creators looking to establish and grow their presence on Bluesky.

writingbluesky

dame.is bloggingMay 8, 2025

A guestbook and welcome message for my atproto PDS

We all know by now that I believe in the lexicon black market and an enjoy illegal atproto records. It's not my fault that Bluesky PBC allowed for such shenanigans! If the good lord had intended for us to walk, she wouldn't have invented roller skates.

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dame.is bloggingMar 8, 2025

Creating a decentralized bathroom (powered by the AT Protocol)

As many of you know by now, I am a Lexicon enjoyer. So much so that this week I created the world's first bathroom that is connected to the AT Protocol. Yes, you read that correctly...

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