News, updates, and insights from the AT Protocol team.
Atproto Spaces, formerly known as “the permissioned data protocol,” is a new extension to atproto that enables non-public data. The alpha is now officially open. Here’s how to develop with it and what to expect as we work towards the full release.
By Daniel Holmgren
A new home for the infrastructure Bluesky runs on the open network — including Jetstream v2 with network replay, a new Jetstream SDK, and a lex-based TypeScript SDK
By Alex Garnett
Branding, observability, and a session-list fix in the newest reference PDS.
By AT Protocol Team
Bluesky now owns the trademark for AT Protocol to shield the ecosystem and make sure it can be used as widely as possible.
By Jim Ray
Now anyone can easily manage their atproto account on the web.
By AT Protocol Team
We’re expanding our office hours livestream. Look for it wherever you get your podcasts.
By Jim Ray
Carrying your adventures through many worlds with the AT Protocol
By rpg.actor
Watch the episode and follow along to build a website on AT Protocol.
By Jim Ray
Articles from across the open web published with this community-built format now receive richer treatment in the Bluesky app
By Jim Ray
Modernizing our TS packages and moving the lex SDK closer to 1.0
By AT Protocol Team
A report-centric workflow for Ozone with new queues, assignments, real-time collaboration, and a per-report activity log.
By AT Protocol Team
How the maintainer of the popular For You feed serves it from their living room!
By spacecowboy
This guest post from Steve Simkins, creator of Sequoia and docs.surf, outlines the strategy he used to index standard.site records.
By Steve Simkins
The Authenticated Transfer Protocol working group has been created at the IETF. Now that we have a charter, we are looking forward to participation from the broader ATP ecosystem.
By AT Protocol Team
Updates to the AT Protocol roadmap, including Permissioned Data and Account Experience.
By Bluesky Protocol Team
Bluesky is providing a grant to the creator of Microcosm to build a full mirror of public data on the Atmosphere to help make the network more resilient.
By fig
Bluesky Social PBC have given a grant to Emelia Smith, an Invited Expert with the FedID Working Group, to work on FedCM with the goal of making FedCM really work for the decentralized web.
By Emelia Smith
The launch of npmx is an incredible showcase for how open source communities can build quickly on top of atproto.
By Jim Ray
Introducing a self-hostable did:plc read-replica service.
By David Buchanan
We’ve updated just about everything about atproto.com to make it easier for developers to just build things.
By Alex Garnett
What the new relay rollout means for consumers of the firehose.
By Bryan Newbold
We recently released Tap, a tool designed to handle the hard parts of repo synchronization, so you can focus on building your application.
By Jim Ray
The Atmosphere is thriving, here's a closer look
By AT Protocol Team
We recently posted two drafts to the IETF Data Tracker. This is the first major step towards standardizing parts of AT in an effort to establish long-term governance for the protocol.
By AT Protocol Team
As the next step of maturing governance of the PLC identity system, Bluesky Social PBC is supporting the creation of an independent organization to operate the PLC directory.
By AT Protocol Team
We've been making improvements to the end-user and developer experiences with atproto OAuth.
By AT Protocol Team
We recently shipped new functionality to the PDS reference implementation (and Bluesky's hosting service) which provides a web interface to create and manage accounts directly on the PDS itself.
By AT Protocol Team
Updates to our reference implementation of the relay support sync version 1.1
By AT Protocol Team
Updates to the AT Protocol roadmap, including Sync v1.1, auth scopes, PDS account management, and more.
By AT Protocol Team
A lot of progress was made on the protocol in 2024, here's a look at the big milestones
By AT Protocol Team
Updates on changes to Bluesky relay servers and guidance for firehose consumers.
By AT Protocol Team
A discussion of Lexicons, schema extensions, and lessons learned from the pinned posts feature collision.
By AT Protocol Team
Introducing Jetstream, an alternative streaming solution with simple JSON encoding and reduced bandwidth.
By AT Protocol Team
Releasing the initial specification of OAuth for AT Protocol, the primary authentication and authorization system going forward.
By AT Protocol Team
Launching microgrants for labeling services on Bluesky to support moderation and community safety.
By AT Protocol Team
An update on our progress and our general goals and focus for the coming months.
By AT Protocol Team
Announcing the second batch of AT Protocol grant recipients, distributing $4,800 total in grants.
By AT Protocol Team
Announcing the AT Protocol Grants program, aimed at fostering the growth and sustainability of the atproto developer ecosystem.
By AT Protocol Team
Releasing an early-access version of federation intended for self-hosters and developers.
By AT Protocol Team
How to export and parse a data repository as a CAR file.
By AT Protocol Team
The current AT Protocol development plan through to a version one release.
By AT Protocol Team
What you can already build on atproto, and what you can expect soon.
By AT Protocol Team
Protocol and infrastructure changes including the BGS firehose and DID document formatting updates.
By AT Protocol Team
Announcing updates to atproto repositories that remove history and replace it with a logical clock.
By AT Protocol Team
A guide to creating posts via the Bluesky API, including mentions, links, replies, quote posts, and image embeds.
By AT Protocol Team
Bluesky is an open social network built on the AT Protocol. If you're a developer interested in building on atproto, we'd love to hear from you.
By AT Protocol Team
Guidelines for the atproto federation developer sandbox environment.
By AT Protocol Team
The technical implementation of public blocks and some possibilities for more privacy preserving block implementations.
By AT Protocol Team