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

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.

The conference will be held in Europe in late April 2027

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...

Where service changes, deprecations, and operational notes for Bluesky Protocol Services get written down.

Now with better perspective, zooming out and re-motivating the design of spaces, the new primitive for non-public data on atproto.

Nitter gets a cease & desist from X while the atproto makes the Internet more open.

High scale open social, unlocked for every builder. Bluesky operates public infrastructure for the AT Protocol — Jetstream, Relay, and the Bluesky API — as open services anyone can build on.

Writer, speaker, and researcher Erin Kissane joins Jim to trace how the social internet got here, what’s worth salvaging, and how we can do better by listening to people.

In which we put records in a repo, sign them, and sync them (but not quite the way you think).

Bluesky proposal discussions. Contribute to bluesky-social/proposals development by creating an account on GitHub.

the door's open

This is an early draft of the proposal for permissioned data. Please do not over-index on this. Details, terminology, and behaviors are all likely to change. For a friendly introduction to the prot...

We've partnered with three blogging platforms built on AT Protocol — Offprint, Leaflet, and pckt.blog — to give you 25% off any annual plan this summer.

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Atmospheric login is one of those topics that maintains a constant hum of discussion in our ecosystem, and for good reason: it's how everyday folks make their w...

For this special edition of Off Protocol LIVE, protocol lead dev Daniel Holmgren will once again be joining us to answer YOUR questions about permissioned data. Read all of Daniel's permissioned data diaries (https://dholms.leaflet.pub/), send us your questions on Bluesky, and bring more to the livestream.

AT Protocol (atproto) is the right mix of useful, practical, personal, and fun. I think it could save the internet.

Carrying your adventures through many worlds with the AT Protocol

Martin Kleppmann discusses the urgent need for technological sovereignty in modern infrastructure. Exploring the shifting landscape of global tech dependencies, he shares how engineering leaders can l...

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Arguing against "universal spaces" and raising a couple questions that come up as a result.

A short guide to atprotomaxxing

Jim sits down with members of the core team building and governing Standard.site, the shared Lexicon for publishing longform writing on atproto. Brooke from pckt.blog, Jared from Leaflet, and Miguel f...

Articles from across the open web published with this community-built format now receive richer treatment in the Bluesky app