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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.
Bluesky's AI assistant Attie adds a new feature called Quests, enabling users to ask open-ended questions about trends and information across the Bluesky network and the AT Protocol, evolving Attie into a research tool.
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.
Waag moved their Bluesky data to Eurosky's Personal Data Server to gain greater control over their data and support decentralization, highlighting the importance of digital sovereignty despite Bluesky's centralized tendencies.
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.
This paper studies hate speech cascades on Bluesky and uses multi-LLM agents to simulate them, finding that such simulations reproduce key patterns like stance monoculture and toxicity-delta direction, and that amplifier targeting on dense networks yields 7.5–12.9% reduction in hateful content with low benign collateral.
The article examines the ongoing fragmentation of social media for live sports commentary, noting that no platform has yet replicated Twitter's real-time communal experience as the 2026 World Cup nears.
Bluesky is introducing 'communities' feature built on the AT Protocol, allowing users to create smaller spaces with privacy levels and custom feeds, inspired by Reddit.
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.
A post claims that X grew its US unique visitors from June 2025 to March 2026, while Threads and Bluesky saw significant drops, contradicting media predictions of X's decline.
Indigo is a tool that helps you stay in touch with your contacts across Bluesky and Mastodon.