One year ago, Bluesky Social PBC announced their intention to facilitate the creation of an independent organization to operate the Public Ledger of Credenti…

Hey folks, let’s do a WG meeting next week! Let’s say 2024-09-30, at 10am Pacific. The Atmospheric Groups Working Group is having a meeting next week on Wednesday. Lots of folks have been experimen...

Hey folks 👋 We’re about a month into the spaces alpha! From what I can tell, it’s going along pretty nicely. We pushed out one breaking change about two weeks back, but it’s been pretty stable apart ...

Describes an hosting pattern for Atmospheric Group accounts, including group creation and app authorization flows

By Berna Alp and Marianthe Stavridou Introduction As societies undergo rapid digital transformation, public infrastructure is being fundamentally rethought. Money is no exception. While cash is declin...

Generative AI (GenAI) is increasingly integrated into social media, raising questions about whether, where, and how it belongs. In decentralized social media (DSM), these decisions are distributed acr...

A collaboration with Princeton explores how Governance Cards can help communities explain how they organise, make decisions, and care for their shared spaces.

Systems, protocol, infrastructure and product About Blacksky Blacksky helps communities create virtual third places where members democratically govern the recommender algorithms and moderation policies that shape their space and soon will also pool funds as groups and send money peer-to-peer. Our behind-the-scenes infrastructure, built on the AT Protocol (the open protocol behind Bluesky), lets those […]

Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.

There has been a lot going on in protocol design land around non-public data and community groups this year. The permissioned data proposal was published back in July, an atmospheric groups proposal f...

Go AT protocol CLI tool. Contribute to bluesky-social/goat development by creating an account on GitHub.