🤔 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: 24726 ops/min
• By record group:
  • Bluesky : 24641 ops/min
  • teal.fm : 18.233 ops/min
  • Streamplace : 16.081 ops/min
  • Podping : 14.574 ops/min
  • Blatball : 3.994 ops/min
  • SIGINT Team : 2.976 ops/min
  • Void Bot : 1.423 ops/min
  • Popfeed : 1.330 ops/min
  • Some kind of sync from Mastodon : 1.223 ops/min
  • anisota : 0.616 ops/min
  • Standard.site : 0.590 ops/min
  • Rocksky : 0.577 ops/min
  • blento : 0.307 ops/min
  • Flashes : 0.294 ops/min
  • Tangled : 0.199 ops/min
  • Semble : 0.147 ops/min
  • Pinksky : 0.084 ops/min
  • Skyblur : 0.083 ops/min
  • WhiteWind : 0.061 ops/min
  • Margin : 0.059 ops/min
  • Spark : 0.053 ops/min
  • SkySpace : 0.035 ops/min
  • 2048 game : 0.030 ops/min
  • Skyrdle : 0.022 ops/min
  • Smoke Signal : 0.020 ops/min
  • Popsky : 0.011 ops/min
  • BookHive : 0.009 ops/min
  • Germ : 0.008 ops/min
  • Statusphere : 0.006 ops/min
  • Scrapboard : 0.005 ops/min
  • Flushes : 0.004 ops/min
  • Cabildo Abierto : 0.003 ops/min
  • Yōten : 0.002 ops/min
  • SonaSky : 0.001 ops/min
  • Roomy : 0.001 ops/min
  • Linkat : 0.001 ops/min
  • Leaflet : 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