🤔 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.

🗺️ Unofficial roadmap

Firehose rates

These are averages over the past 25 hours.

• Total: 0.000 ops/min
• By record group:
  • ATFile: 0.000 ops/min
  • Bluesky: 0.000 ops/min
  • Blue Badge: 0.000 ops/min
  • Bookmarks: 0.000 ops/min. Used by:
    • Klearsky
    • Starrysky
  • Frontpage: 0.000 ops/min
  • Linkat: 0.000 ops/min
  • Picosky: 0.000 ops/min
  • ProtoScript: 0.000 ops/min
  • Smoke Signal: 0.000 ops/min
  • Statusphere: 0.000 ops/min
  • WhiteWind: 0.000 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