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This is a Bluesky proposal for adding permissioned (private) data support to the AT Protocol, enabling access control over user data in decentralized social networks.
Luke Kanies discusses his plans to build a suite of decentralized review applications on ATProto, sharing feedback from the Local First Conference and critiquing the protocol's current trajectory.
A technical deep dive into Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) used in the AT Protocol (Bluesky), explaining how DID documents, verification methods, and resolution work.
The article discusses the incompatibility of AT URI syntax with standard URI/URL specifications due to placing DIDs in the authority field, and explores potential solutions and their trade-offs.
Bluesky has published a draft proposal for permissioned data on the AT Protocol, alongside other proposals for user lists, moderation, OAuth, and more, as part of their ongoing development efforts.
Explains why the concept of 'instances' from Mastodon/ActivityPub does not apply to ATProto (Bluesky's protocol), clarifying that hosting and aggregation are separate in ATProto's architecture.
The blog post details why the team chose Elixir over Go, Rust, or Node for building a performant Bluesky DataPlane, leveraging the BEAM's concurrency for the hot path and offloading compute-intensive operations to a Rust NIF.