🤔 Bluesky & ATProto FYI

The Bluesky app, and the AT Protocol it is built on, are in development. Some things are in flux, and information can be hard to find!

Collected below are some resources that can help you figure out how things currently work, and how they may change in the future.

Maintained by @str4d.xyz.

🌐 Network Map

🗺️ Unofficial roadmap

Firehose rates

These are averages over the past 25 hours.

• Total: 22819 ops/min
• By record group:
  • Bluesky : 22707 ops/min
  • Standard.site : 19.362 ops/min
  • Streamplace : 14.757 ops/min
  • Podping : 14.583 ops/min
  • teal.fm : 4.994 ops/min
  • SIGINT Team : 2.990 ops/min
  • Rocksky : 1.868 ops/min
  • Popfeed : 1.765 ops/min
  • Some kind of sync from Mastodon : 1.532 ops/min
  • Semble : 0.738 ops/min
  • anisota : 0.483 ops/min
  • Flashes : 0.330 ops/min
  • blento : 0.185 ops/min
  • Tangled : 0.183 ops/min
  • WhiteWind : 0.103 ops/min
  • Skyblur : 0.100 ops/min
  • Void Bot : 0.067 ops/min
  • Germ : 0.066 ops/min
  • Margin : 0.051 ops/min
  • Leaflet : 0.034 ops/min
  • BookHive : 0.029 ops/min
  • Spark : 0.024 ops/min
  • Pinksky : 0.024 ops/min
  • Grain : 0.018 ops/min
  • 2048 game : 0.014 ops/min
  • Skyrdle : 0.011 ops/min
  • deck belcher : 0.011 ops/min
  • SonaSky : 0.010 ops/min
  • Statusphere : 0.009 ops/min
  • Cabildo Abierto : 0.003 ops/min
  • Linkat : 0.002 ops/min
  • Flushes : 0.002 ops/min
  • Smoke Signal : 0.001 ops/min

Explainers

• "What Information is Public on Bluesky?" by @eepy.bsky.social
• An academic paper on the architecture: Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable Decentralized Social Media by Martin Kleppmann and the Bluesky team

Resources

• Bluesky FAQ
• Bluesky Developer APIs
• Awesome Bluesky list, maintained by @adorable.mom
• AT Protocol:
  • FAQ
  • Community projects
  • Documentation