Dick Hardt @dickhardt.bsky.social Founder/CEO Hellō
Gabe Cohen @decentralgabe.xyz Building the decentralized & verifiable internet @ https://world.org/
Dean H. Saxe @fullfrontalnerdity.com Identity, security, standards, food & drink, travel, bicycles, backpacking, bikepacking, and board games.
Co-chair, Death & The Digital Estate Community Group (OpenID Foundation).
George Fletcher @gffletch.bsky.social Jesus follower… Widowed… Father… Identity Architect… Photographer… Potter
T.Rob @tdotrob.bsky.social Proud dad still making too many bad #dadjokes. From homeless high school dropout to 40 years in #ITSecurity. Now #woodturning, and various #maker projects.
#Autism #autistic #woodworking #privacy #security #IBMMQ
silentodd.com
Matthews, NC, US- R Steve Olshansky @real-steveo.bsky.social Internet Trust & Safety - Technology, Policy, & Strategy. Principal @ LuminaGroup.com
- H Harold Carr @hcarr.bsky.social https://haroldcarr.bandcamp.com/
Hutch @identityhutch.com IDPro Emeritus Board & Dir of Security Architecture at MUFG. Former Principal Architect at GE Digital. Amateur mixologist & host of the (in)famous #BluebirdRVA
Heather Flanagan @sphericalcowconsulting.com Digital identity & standards geek | Principal @ Spherical Cow Consulting 🐄 | Blogger, speaker, and cat herder of the Internet’s geekiest corners | Might be obsessed with knitting, spinning, weaving, and trashy romance novels | Intrepid world traveler
Ian Glazer @iglazer.bsky.social Digital Identity, random thoughts, and such. Founder of IDPro, DIAF, and Weave Identity
@iglazer over there- J JP Rangaswami @jobsworth.bsky.social Grandfather, still in training. Loves books, cricket, football, Don Quixote, sixties and early seventies music, food, cooking. Focused on family, friends, community.
Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com Freelance book editor and crowdfunding consultant https://glog.glennf.com/editing-services Eisner-nominated How Comics Are Made. hcwm.ink/HCW Two-time Jeopardy! champ. Latest book: That One Matt Bors Comic http://kck.st/4ttpVAQ My store Aperiodical.net
Radio Free America @radiofreeameri.ca News stories, blog posts and podcasts with ideas and facts that intelligent and informed people would want.
https://radiofreeameri.ca/
authenticon @authenticon.bsky.social Konferenzreihe für Vertrauen in der digitalen Gesellschaft.
authenticon 2026 am 11.-12.03.26 in Dresden.
Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com I write, think, and podcast about media, technology, and society. Author, Survival of the Richest, Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, and Team Human.
Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@douglasrushkoff
Support: https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman
Dave Forgac @tylerdave.com By day I help people who do things with computers. On here talking about kids, Cleveland, Cavs, Guardians, Python, PyOhio, D&D, APIs, running, synths, bass, & effects. he/him
Dan Moore @mooreds.com Sr. Director, CIAM Strategy & Identity Standards at @fusionauth.io . Hangs out on HN too much. Author of "Letters to a New Developer", contributor to "97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know". Writes at http://ciamweekly.com
Ultra Quamfy. Cooking 🍳 @ultraquamfy.bsky.social I am here to educate about Decentralised Identity, and Decentralised Identifiers which are the basis of this platform.
It's not "crypto", it's Decentralised Infrastructure as verifiable data registries.
Decentralised Trust Registries.
#CHEQD #CHEQ #DID
Ron Hammond @dbunz.bsky.social Pro-Democracy Anti-Fascism
Against Hate, Fascists, Dictators, Liars, Racists & Rapists
Pro Justice for All, Decency, Integrity, Character & Compassion. Also Conservative lifelong Republican 🤷??
@thrivable.bsky.social @thrivable.bsky.social 
@tweeddalex.bsky.social @tweeddalex.bsky.social Product Manager & Identity Standards Architect at cheqd │ Co-Chair Steering Committee at Trust over IP (ToIP) │ National Expert (UK) at British Standards Institute (BSI) & CEN/CENELEC.
@joewhaley.bsky.social @joewhaley.bsky.social 
Uncle Joe @sydseter.com Co-leader OWASP Cornucopia. If you like what we do for open source, visit our code repository https://github.com/OWASP/cornucopia and give us a star ⭐
🌈 «Difference is of the essence of humanity» 🦄 – John Hume
#appsec #owasp #cornucopia #threatmodeling- D @dariusdunlap.bsky.social @dariusdunlap.bsky.social
Neil Thomson @neiljt.bsky.social Ottawa.Kanata.Beaverbrook resident. Engaged in Community Assoc., City Issues since 1992. Runner, x-country, cyclist, and sometimes tri-athlete.
Tech - Data/Analytics, Data Privacy, Decentralized Digital Identity (SSI). Active in DIF, ToIP, MyData 
Michael Kevin Spencer @aisupremacy.bsky.social Canadian in Taiwan. Emerging tech writer, and analyst with a flagship Newsletter called A.I. Supremacy reaching 115k readers
Also watching Semis, China, robotics, Quantum, BigTech, open-source AI and Gen AI tools.
https://www.ai-supremacy.com/archive
John Gøtze @gotze.bsky.social Enterprise Architect. Founder of EA Fellows. Leading EA certification at Carnegie Mellon University.
John Wunderlich @privacycdn.bsky.social Privacy geek.
Emrys Schoemaker @emryss.bsky.social digital, social & political transformation; research & policy @ Caribou Digital & fellow @ LSE & Graduate Institute, Geneva; RT ≠ endorsement
X: @emrys_s
Rich Miller @rhm2k.bsky.social Silicon Valley irregular and CEO of Telematica, Inc.
Gary Crye @crye.dev Systems Architect @ BYU
The purpose of a system is what it does
Tech & Urbanism
Joe McKendrick @joemckendrick.bsky.social Pondering innovation and disruption in tech and in life — with optimism and skepticism. Forbes, ZDNet, Harvard Business Review, Database Trends. Temple U., Army brat
Joe Trippi @joetrippi.bsky.social Founder of https://sez.us Senior Advisor Lincoln Project Host of That Trippi Show podcast. Co-founder of Lincoln Square
Nate Angell @xolotl.org #communications & #community @nudgital.com. Wandering IQ. Raised by wolves. Friend to cheese. he/him. All posts #CCBY. Mastodon: https://social.coop/@xolotl
Lawrence Paulson @lawrpaulson.bsky.social Computer scientist with a background in mathematics and logic. Academic researching formal verification technologies and applications. Also in the cesspit- R @r0ml.net @r0ml.net
@allenwb.bsky.social @allenwb.bsky.social 
@leschasen.bsky.social @leschasen.bsky.social 
Joe Pyrah @sausagegrinder.bsky.social I do politics and stuff.
Frank Paynter @fpaynter.bsky.social Opinionator and avocational low brass guy. Quaker. Lives in San Diego County, CA. Joined Blue Sky on 11/12/2024. 
Adam Shostack @adamshostack.bsky.social Threat modeling. BH Review Board. Affiliate Professor, UW. Fixed autorun. Helped create CVE.
Not sure why we're building graphs on yet another (effectively) centralized system. https://infosec.exchange/@adamshostack
Denise Howell @denisehowell.info The Internet’s law department, at your service. Tech law+policy. Host, Uneven Distribution. Co-host, R&D with D&D. TWiT fan, friend, contributor. Skier. Yogi. Cornichons.
Gabe Rivera @gaberivera.bsky.social Follow @techmeme.com and @mediagazer.com!
I once authored a popular tweet about walking.
Heather Vescent @heathervescent.bsky.social "We must not be afraid to dream of the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality." - Václav Havel
Positive Futurist, Security Researcher, Culture Jammer, Community Builder, Desert Dweller, Rescue Boston Terriers
Rick Gregory @rickgregory.me Reader of words, nurturer of yeast, pusher of pixels
gabe @gundy.org Family, startups, hardware, food / cooking, fintech, Utah. Also, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, FreeCAD, Klipper, FluidNC, Linux, Flutter, Dart. What else?
Lyre Calliope 🧭✨ @captaincalliope.at 🌐 Working at the intersection of movements, media, and the social web to expand collective agency
🛠️ Seeking collaborations to reshape systems that concentrate power and shape how we live
🧭 Field Notes @spacecadets.love
👂 Current focus @ecosystemaction.com
Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Chocoholic. Baseball. Cats. Technology. Not always in that order.
She/her. Let's be kind to one another.
Gaze upon my LinkedIn profile and admire: https://www.linkedin.com/in/estherschindler/
Phil Yanov @philyanov.bsky.social 🏆 Award winning Showrunner at 🍻 Tech After Five, ☕️ Networking Over Coffee, 🎧🎙 podcaster, presenter, facilitator, 🙋🏻♂️ avuncular host. 🦉 Philosophically Stoic. 📺 Host at Conversations with Modern Stoicism. 👉 https://bit.ly/m/AboutPhil
Ross Mayfield @rossmayfield.bsky.social AI @Zoom. Was @ross on Twitter. Opinions my own. AI makes mistakes, so do you.
#FPL 🌎 2K OR 24/25
Stay Curious @dsanford0.bsky.social Sci-fi writer, engineer, various kinds of nerd, dog person
David F. Carr @davidfcarr.com Writer, editor, speaker, creator of the RSVPMaker WordPress events and email marketing plugin and the Toastmost website hosting service. Find and tell stories based on Similarweb data. Posts are my own.
Pat Patterson @metadaddy.net Dad, husband, ultrarunner, Chief Technical Evangelist at @backblaze.bsky.social. Previously Citrix, StreamSets, Salesforce, Huawei, Sun Microsystems.
Old tweets archived at @metadaddy-archive.bsky.social
Marc Eliot Davis @marceliotdavis.bsky.social Author and Illustrator of the Artists on Planets books. MIT Media Lab PhD. Applied futurist. Using science fiction to help us save the planet and each other. Learn more at: https://artistsonplanets.com/about-the-author
Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com Reading your thoughts, as long as you tell me where you're writing them first this week. https://xoxo.zone/@kevinmarks
Sheffield, UK - Don't try direct messaging as I am blocked by daft UK legislation unless I'm on a VPN.
Sam Johnston @samj.net CTO · MBA · Founder · ex-Google/Equinix/Citrix
Ted Roche 🌄 ⛈ 🌡 ⛅ 🌪 🌀 @tedroche.contoocook.org He/him. Wx observer: CWOP/CoCoRaHS/SKYWARN® StormSpotter. ¾-retired computer consultant, book & article author, conference speaker. Veteran USN submarine nuclear plant operator. #ETTD, duh. Слава Україні! Mundus sine Cæsaribus.
Ric Phillips @ricphillips.bsky.social Widower - trying to find my way.
Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press).
Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.
Spencer Gibb @spencer.gibb.us Software Engineer, Dad, Geek, Co-founder and Lead of #SpringCloud Core on the @spring.io team at Broadcom
khartig @khartig.bsky.social Navigator of the decentralized unknown. Skeptic of the everyday.
On a decentralized journey.
Dion Almaer @almaer.com Bringing nuance to a knife fight 🔪, surprisingly older than @bgalbs
Past: Ajaxian, Shopify, Google, Mozilla, webOS, and more!
Drummond Reed @drummondreed.bsky.social Work in decentralized digital trust. Co-authored “Self-Sovereign Identity” (Manning, 2021). Building the trust layer for the Internet. Film buff. Writer. 
Helen Garneau @helengarneau.bsky.social Co-founder Indicio.tech | Hyperledger marketing | Aspiring retiree | Nap enthusiast 
Mark Szpakowski @mszpak.bsky.social Sanity seeker at the tech-society-earth commons — Msit No’kmaq: All My Relations.
Brent Ashley @ashleyit.com old school technology nerd
Mark Drummond @markdrummond.ca Mastodon: @markdrummond@ioc.exchange
Richard Esplin @esplinr.bsky.social Professional focus: self-sovereign identity, product management
Interests: open source, open culture, outdoors, religion, flourishing
Tweets reflect my own opinions and are not official statements from my employer
Bruce Conrad @b1conrad.bsky.social i write code to prove concepts
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social Digital ID at CO/DSIT
Developed the first liberal political philosophy of British digital identity systems (for a DPhil at @oiioxford.bsky.social)
chsmith.co.uk
Sean Bohan @seanbohan.bsky.social I play #RPGs and #wargames. I paint #minis and make terrain. I love #sci-fi, #fantasy and #mysteries. All of my interests give me joy, none of them will pay the rent and I am fine with that.
Rotterdam, NL
Joseph Scott @josephscott.bsky.social Lead of the performance team at Automattic.
https://josephscott.org/
Jason W @thesidetrack.bsky.social Blurring the line between information and yelling
thesidetrack.blogspot.com
alt text that makes you go hmm @handle.invalid weird pictures with weird (and relevant) alt text. operated by a human, not a secret crypto bro or whatever.
she/her 🏳️⚧️ ♿ 🪬
Profile: a marble statue with an exasperated expression being shown presumably distressing content on an iPhone
Joe Prisk @joeprisk.bsky.social Engineer at Thinkmill (he/him)
🌲 in nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect
🚴 rides: Marin Nicaso+
joeprisk.co
Bryan Schott @schotthappens.com Publisher/Managing Editor - Utah Political Watch
📝 I write about politics. Sometimes it goes well. | 🧠 Unsupervised adult with ADHD. | 🏈 In a toxic relationship with the Oklahoma Sooners.
DM for Signal.
linkin.bio/schotthappens
Jesse Harris @elforesto.coolestfamilyever.com Infosec professional. Gamer, gardener, hiker in Cedar City, Utah. Sometimes politics, but less than I used to. Fully supportive of Reconstruction 2.0.
about.me/elforesto
Ian Kennedy @everwas.com Not the Major League pitcher.
Les Orchard @lmorchard.com he / him; semi-hermit in PDX, USA; tinkerer; old adhd cat dad; serial enthusiast; editor-at-large for http://lmorchard.com; astra mortemque superare gradatim. Just visiting here, mostly posting over there 👉 https://hackers.town/@lmorchard
Squirrel @sotirov.bsky.social 
Dave Winer @scripting.com OG blogger, podcaster, outliners, CMSes, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet. 
Aaron Parecki @aaronpk.com #OAuth #IndieWeb
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
Ben Galbraith @octo.dad Octodad and yet, surprisingly, younger than @almaer.com; lover of fine pies. Building, advising, parenting. Ex: Google, Walmart, Palm, Mozilla, Ajaxian, etc.
Mark Atwood @mark.atwood.name I learn amazing things, and meet awesome people, and introduce them to each other. Shape Rotator. Quiet Mind. Fan of good pens, fine paper, deep writing, skilled work
https://markatwood.substack.com/ https://links.fallenpegasus.com/