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It’s been three months since we introduced Attie. Since returning from Atmosphereconf in Vancouver, I’ve been focused on building out the Exploration team, gathering feedback from users, and working on expanding Attie’s capabilities. I’m excited to share with you all what we’ve learned and what’s coming next. 

The hard problem of the internet is no longer providing access to information, it’s separating signal from noise. We’ve crossed a threshold of technological change where producing convincing and manipulative content with AI has become almost free, and the ability to manipulate people at scale is now outrunning our ability to defend against it. 

Attie's AI is a tool that helps you make sense of the internet, helping you fight back against the proliferation of misinformation and noise by giving you the tools to find the truth yourself.

The AT Protocol and Bluesky have given people real power online. They allow you to own your online presence, to build the social feeds that you want to see, to run your own moderation in a way that you see fit, and to filter what you see. However, many of these tools require time and expertise. Attie allows anyone to create the social experience they want, regardless of their technical skills. 

Our bet is that tools that help people make sense of the world will prove to be more useful than those that fill it with confusion. We want Attie to reduce the barrier to entry and expertise required to learn how to use the AT Protocol, and to put the tools for customizing your experience in the hands of anyone who wants them.

The first of these features made it easier to create a feed using plain language to personally curate your Bluesky experience. Our next features are similarly designed to make building and customizing your experience on atproto easier. 

This week, we’re introducing Quests, an interactive research and exploration tool for the Atmosphere. You can ask Attie to pull information about trending topics, identify the most influential accounts in a particular field or location, or have it create a personalized daily briefing for you. Where Feeds let you easily build a custom feed without programming, Quests give you an open interface to inspect what’s happening across the Atmosphere. We’re releasing it to the closed beta over the next few weeks.

We’ve also redesigned the Attie experience, with accessibility improvements and a new logo. Expect to see more design improvements over the coming months. 

What hasn’t changed since our initial introduction is our commitment to building tools that empower rather than distract. Attie is a tool that you choose to interact with, not one injected into your feed. Our goal is to give you more ways to organize, understand, and explore what’s out there on the social web. 

Over the coming weeks we’ll be opening the closed beta to more people from the waitlist. If you’re curious about what’s happening, now is a great time to jump in. The features that we are most proud of so far came straight from feedback, and Attie gets better the more people help shape it.

If we do this well, it should just feel like the social web working the way it always should have: the noise will be filtered out, the things you care about will be easy to find, and you’ll be able to easily customize your experience online. 

Come build with us, and join the waitlist here.