🤔 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: 21112 ops/min
- By record group:
- Bluesky : 21101 ops/min
- teal.fm : 3.798 ops/min
- Void Bot : 0.897 ops/min
- Rocksky : 0.841 ops/min
- anisota : 0.820 ops/min
- Some kind of sync from Mastodon : 0.706 ops/min
- Flashes : 0.475 ops/min
- Tangled : 0.289 ops/min
- Streamplace : 0.251 ops/min
- Leaflet : 0.233 ops/min
- SkySpace : 0.147 ops/min
- BookHive : 0.144 ops/min
- Skyblur : 0.074 ops/min
- WhiteWind : 0.062 ops/min
- Pinksky : 0.054 ops/min
- Grain : 0.044 ops/min
- Statusphere : 0.042 ops/min
- Skyrdle : 0.038 ops/min
- Yōten : 0.029 ops/min
- 2048 game : 0.021 ops/min
- Spark : 0.007 ops/min
- Scrapboard : 0.006 ops/min
- SonaSky : 0.005 ops/min
- Frontpage : 0.005 ops/min
- Flushes : 0.004 ops/min
- Roomy : 0.003 ops/min
- Germ : 0.003 ops/min
- Bookmarks: 0.002 ops/min. Used by:
- Blue Badge : 0.002 ops/min
- Linkat : 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: