microcosm: atproto building blocks @microcosm.blue · 29/09/2026STAR could be the serialization format for atproto spaces! maybe! the v1 format isn’t finalized yet, so now is a great time to share feedback and help shape it! 0153
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksfig (aka:[phil]) @bad-example.com · 23/09/2026PART TWO: All the other reasons i don't like CARs for atproto repo exports! In this one: ambiguities and inefficiencies. (the biggest problem is already hopefully getting fixed in the IETF draft though, yay!)data-service-diaries.pckt.blogWar on CARs: the rest of itPart 2: streaming struggles, bad blocks, worthless weight, and superfluous structure in Content Addressable aRchives 6538
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksfig (aka:[phil]) @bad-example.com · 16/09/2026alright here it is, my hit-piece on CARs in atproto, with a big ecosystem surveypckt.blogWar on CARs - Data service diariesA widespread authenticity problem in the Authenticated Transfer Protocol, from real-world use of Content-Addressible aRchives 159011
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksBluesky Status @status.bsky.app · 16/09/2026This incident has been resolved. status.bsky.app 3739
microcosm: atproto building blocks @microcosm.blue · 15/09/2026seeing some firehose weridness! significant drop in events received by both microcosm relays in the last 15mins. since these relays are hosted by different providers on different continents, this seems likely to be a real drop in network volume. 1111
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksatproto vancouver @vancouver.atprotocol.community · 11/09/2026Works with @microcosm.blue Constellation for part of it. Moves are written one record per user per game. Portable Game Notation PGN is used. Play at @checkmate.blue checkmate.blue 051
microcosm: atproto building blocks @microcosm.blue · 02/09/2026availability warning. everything fine so far and most microcosm services have automatic failover to cloud providers, so any impact should be minimal if anything happens 🤞 1172
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksTheo-Steiner @theosteiner.de · 26/08/2026in a bleak world where LLMs threaten to drain all joy from software development (full disclosure: I vibed @svebcomponents/atproto & it sparked loads of joy) the atmosphere is such a fresh breath of air with a great ecosystem - shoutout to @microcosm.blue, @pds.dad & @pfrazee.com y'all are inspiring! 061
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksMatt Kane @mk.gg · 28/08/2026Thanks to a PR from @willem.dobs.nl, check.cirrus.earth now validates the CAR commit object signature using the @microcosm.blue verifier code.check.cirrus.earth☁️ checkVerify your AT Protocol PDS. 2101
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksEmelia @thisismissem.social · 28/08/2026Neat thing I just learned you can do: use com.bad-example.proxy.hydrateQueryResponse to hydrate blue.microcosm.links.getManyToMany calls, which is pretty neat of @microcosm.blue 1142
microcosm: atproto building blocks @microcosm.blue · 28/08/2026provider maintenance window today 7am–5pm EST, up to 6h downtime for 🟡 relay.fire.hose.cam (and its alias relay2.fire.hose.cam ) 🟡 jetstream.fire.hose.cam no other services are on this provider. alternate firehoses: 🟢 relay3.fr.hose.cam 🟢 jetstream2.fr.hose.cam 🟢 jetstream1.us-east.fire.hose.cam 170
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blockssvebcomponents.dev @svebcomponents.dev · 26/08/2026This is mostly built on community infrastructure, it uses @microcosm.blue 's spacedust as its interaction firehose & constellations for showing you your likes. Thank you @bad-example.com! I am beyond excited about what the ATmosphere ecosystem means for the web! 091
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksEvelyn @kandake.africa · 21/08/2026It's been a fun week of figuring out the new jetstream sync engine but ALSO trying out @microcosm.blue Hubble at the same time. I set out with a mission to build a service to report follow counts and ended up working with them both. Check out my write up on my new @pckt.blog 50 Shades of Protocol.pckt.blogBuilding the Social Graph with Hubble and Jetstream - 50 Shades of ProtocolRecently Northsky Social launched it's own Social App to much fanfare and we got a lot of great feedback on it! Of course, one thing that many users noticed was... 13912
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksEvelyn @kandake.africa · 19/08/2026Stalled just shy of 29 million so until @zzstoatzz.io wakes up to see what's up it's time to start the second test. Backfilling the entire social graph with @microcosm.blue hubble, ETA 24 hours. 2111
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blockscatherine @ketzerin.moe · 19/08/2026ok yay (doesn't use bluesky appview, uses selfhosted slingshot + the public instances of @microcosm.blue (with plans to selfhost the rest later if i put this up anywhere...)) 1143
microcosm: atproto building blocks @microcosm.blue · 16/08/2026microcosm services remain healthy 1434
microcosm: atproto building blocks @microcosm.blue · 13/08/2026service notice: 🟡 Constellation partial disruption, one reverse proxy misbehaving Constellation is fronted by two nginx servers as redundant reverse proxies. Requests reaching 155.138.133.71 are currently not succeeding. The gateway at 209.38.8.157 is healthy. 1160
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksAturi @aturi.to · 11/08/2026Have suggestions or feedback that would make @aturi.to work better for you or your project? Drop us a line on our new in-app feedback board, powered by @userinput.app and @microcosm.blue! Submissions via github/tangled are also welcome! aturi.to/feedbackaturi.toFeedback & Suggestions · aturi.toReport bugs, request features, and vote on what aturi.to builds next. Built on the userinput.app lexicons: every post lives in your own repo. 074
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksnate @zzstoatzz.io · 11/08/2026ok im sick of waiting for apple to review the iOS app, so in the meantime if you like birds, see birds, and want to record your bird sightings then check out birds.place! it runs on free tier cloudflare and @microcosm.bluebirds.placebirds.placesee a bird? log the bird. 88212
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksFlushes @flushes.app · 10/08/2026We now have a dedicated feedback form and tracking board accessible from the footer of the site! It's powered by @userinput.app and @microcosm.blue. Leave a comment, provide a suggestion, or let us know what you want to see next... flushes.app/feedbackflushes.appFlushesThe Internet's Bathroom. Post your flushes, see who else is in there, and keep every record in your own Atmosphere account. 071
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksAnuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 06/08/2026If you can, please help keep @microcosm.blue alive with a monthly donation. The work @bad-example.com does is invaluable, and this community and ecosystem wouldn't be what it is without their contributions and hard work: 082
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksA New Social @anew.social · 06/08/2026@microcosm.blue 🤝🏼 @anew.social A huge huge thanks to @bad-example.com for helping us with this! We couldn't do it without your support! 0156
microcosm: atproto building blocks @microcosm.blue · 06/08/2026If you've backfilled the network before, you probably noticed the 65k bridged accounts you couldn't sync. …until a week ago! Bridgy Fed's `getRepo` is now open, and served by Hubble!updates.microcosm.blueHubble first launch: 1500x cheaper getRepo for Bridgy FedBringing Bridgy's backfill back! (and unblocking a big Bluesky broadcast 👀) 29118
microcosm: atproto building blocks @microcosm.blue · 05/08/2026🟠 relay2.fire.hose.cam dropped most of its PDS connections and stayed disconnected for a period. recovery started on its own and is almost complete. events may be delayed until it finishes catching up 1101
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksdame @dame.is · 28/07/2026My weird little participatory art project that utilizes the AT Protocol and Bluesky posts as a medium now has its own page on my website featuring visualizations of the data, lists of participants, and orphaned replies found via @microcosm.blue backlinks dame.is/creating/3mrlnl6oyuj2ddame.isRatioed — dame.isI began this social art experiment in June 2025 and have “performed” it periodically since. My intent was to explore what it would look like to use a social media post as a medium for art (not for sha... 192
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksfr.atproto.🥖 @atproto.fr · 24/07/2026reddwarf.app utilise l'api constellation de @microcosm.blue qui est indépendant de Bluesky. Constellation est un registre écoutant le relais et qui conserve le graphe des records. Reddwarf récupère ensuite le contenu via directement les PDS des utilisateurs ou une autre API slingshot de microcosm. 141
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksdame @dame.is · 17/07/2026Thanks for all the love and for signal boosting 🤍 Sign my PDS-based guestbook!! It used to be super lofi & technical to interact with, but the new site lets you login with Atmosphere OAuth and easily leave me a note saying you were there! Powered by @microcosm.blue backlinks! dame.is/welcomingdame.isdame.is welcomingSign in with any atproto account and leave a note that you were here. Every signature lives on the signer’s own PDS and reaches this page as a backlink. 1101
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksTangled Stars @tangled-stars.com · 14/07/2026We backfill from tangled's own sh.tangled.* lexicons and listen live via jetstream, using @microcosm.blue constellation tool Sadly, we built this before the @tangled.org team shipped Bobbin, their new own read API. But it makes tangled-stars more independant! Here's the look for @lichen.wiki 171
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksSkywalker @skywalker.thereforeiam.eu · 12/07/2026A big thank you to @microcosm.blue to make it possible to implement this feature with Constellation. 071
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksBoris @bmann.ca · 12/07/2026There are in fact over 3100 independent PDS account hosts blue.mackuba.eu/directory/pd... As well as @microcosm.blue created by @bad-example.com 0467
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksMichel Bestaat @michelbestaat.thereforeiam.eu · 07/07/2026Constellation from @microcosm.blue is awesome. @mackuba.eu thanks for enlightening me! With Constellation I can display verifications from @eurosky.social or other verifiers in @skywalker.thereforeiam.eu 1285
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksWillow (GHOST) @willow.sh · 06/07/2026Built using @svelte.dev , Layer Charts from @techniq.dev, and Ufos from @microcosm.blue tangled.org/willow.sh/ta...tangled.orgwillow.sh/tangled-statsSomething I threw together to show the `sh.tangled.repo` activity 162
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksaly @aly.codes · 02/07/2026fyi, I'm hosting an instance of slingshot from @microcosm.blue now! Will be some hiccups as I figure it out, but it's live and working. slingshot.cute.hausslingshot.cute.hausSlingshot: atproto edge record cacheAPI Documentation for Slingshot, a firehose-listening atproto edge record and identity cache. 2151
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksdame @dame.is · 25/06/2026Here’s a screen recording showcasing how you can tap on the word tiles of a post poem to see the exact post the word came from — the post URIs are saved to the poem’s PDS record, so you can easily see backlinks via @microcosm.blue anisota.net 051
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksJeremy Herve @jeremy.herve.bzh · 25/06/2026AT Mot: introducing AT Mot, a small experiment to rebuild Wordle on AT Proto. Give it a try! This was mostly an excuse to play with Constellation, as @pevohr.bsky.social suggested a few days ago. Thank you! herve.bzh/at-mot-i-reb...herve.bzhAT Mot: I rebuilt Wordle on the AT ProtocolIntroducing AT Mot, a small ATProto experiment, and a daily word game. Give it a try! 5195
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksfig (aka:[phil]) @bad-example.com · 23/06/2026hello! yeah! quite a lot of PLC progress (and some left to go). (warning: long thread) 1. there is an official reference read-replica implementation: github.com/did-method-p... the official read-replica is better than the Allegedly reference-server-wrapper that i made, in two important ways: 1397
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksSherif EA @sherif.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026Everything we’re building at @eurosky.social is possible because of the work of many others and we’re proud of it. From the AT Protocol to PDS to data tools to apps - it’s possible because of @bsky.app @blackskyweb.xyz @microcosm.blue and many others. Nothing would have been possible without them. 515823
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksBailey Townsend 🦀 @pds.dad · 19/06/2026I decided to make use of some older hardware I had lying around to run some atproto infra. Meet wafflehouse.dev! - constellation.wafflehouse.dev, a @microcosm.blue constellation instance - slingshot.wafflehouse.dev, a microcosm slingshot instance - plc.wafflehouse.dev, a read only PLC mirrorwafflehouse.devWafflehouse.devatproto selfhosted services hosted in the southeast. 1415416
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksB. Prendergast @renderg.host · 16/06/2026So very grateful to have access to tools like @atproto.at , @pds.ls and @microcosm.blue to help inspect and audit the #ATmosphere 🌀 #ATproto 🪿 0144
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksGuido X Jansen @gui.do · 14/06/2026Unsurprisingly, the new @eurosky.social firehose is much faster for @sifa.id to connect to (compared to the standard bsky firehose) and on-par with the @microcosm.blue firehose (as all 3 are on 🇪🇺 Hetzner servers) Well done team, big wins for atproto independence and decentralization this week! 👏👏👏 312718
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksfig (aka:[phil]) @bad-example.com · 12/06/2026slingshot now has a CLI flag to use a custom PLC directory/mirror, like plc.eurosky.network (or plc.wtf !) thanks @byjp.me for the PR!github.comMake slingshot's PLC directory configurable at runtime by jphastings · Pull Request #59 · at-microcosm/microcosm-rsHey @uniphil, I was looking to run slingshot locally for testing purposes, and realised I can't set it to use my local-net PLC directory. This PR would make it configurable but shouldn't af... 1261
microcosm: atproto building blocks @microcosm.blue · 11/06/2026PSA to all lightrail operators: please update to v0.1.1 (latest on main) Fixes a bug where lightrail sends excessive requests to PDSes for `com.atproto.sync.listRepos`. 2130
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksSifa ID @sifa.id · 10/06/2026I switched Sifa's atproto identity resolution over to Slingshot (@bad-example.com's edge cache) and really glad I did! Resolving a handle/DID to its PDS now comes back verified in one cached call. ~100% served in prod, zero misses so far (the old resolver could hang on a 30s timeout 😅) 3271
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksBrookie @brookie.blog · 09/06/2026userinput.app has no backend ! it’s powered by @microcosm.blue ❣️ if you find it useful and want to support open, community funded infrastructure, consider giving your money to @bad-example.com 😇userinput.appuserinput.appCollect feedback: post ideas, vote on what matters, and watch them go from planned to shipped. 2564
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksgabboman the wafrn dev @gabboman.xyz · 08/06/2026Time to depend even less on bsky infrastructure 163
microcosm: atproto building blocks @microcosm.blue · 08/06/2026Updated discord community link! hop in!discord.ggJoin the microcosm: atproto building blocks Discord Server!Check out the microcosm: atproto building blocks community on Discord – hang out with 82 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat. 0131
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksBeacon Bits @beaconbits.app · 07/06/2026Beacon Bits June update is now live! This release brings some sweet new features: 🌎 A new 3D map using @maplibre.org 📍 Clickable POI markers for easier checkins ☀️ Weather details on beacons and posts ❤️ Better interactions backed by @microcosm.blue 🔐 New OAuth backend with a 90 day timeout 3426
microcosm: atproto building blocks @microcosm.blue · 05/06/2026service note: 🟡 jetstream2.fr.hose.cam disruption: expired cert 🟢 all other services operational 1101
Reposted by microcosm: atproto building blocksJack @jackvalinsky.com · 31/05/2026@tangled.org import (slightly broken, but it uses @microcosm.blue constellation and slingshot as well as @smokesignal.events's quickdid for failover resolution strategies) 131