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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 🎧 No One Lasts Forever featuring David Cronenberg by Charli xcx

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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 Works
Creative WorksJun 4, 2026
CodeTV Appearance
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Web Dev Challenge (a CodeTV production)
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 Works
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 Works
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 blogging
dame.is bloggingNov 17, 2025
is anisota...?
some informal faqs for anisota
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dame.is blogging
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 blogging
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 Works
Creative WorksAug 19, 2025
Anisota
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Creative Works
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.
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dame.is blogging
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 blogging
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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