🤔 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: 18448 ops/min
- By record group:
- Bluesky : 18383 ops/min
- teal.fm : 45.062 ops/min
- Streamplace : 7.985 ops/min
- Some kind of sync from Mastodon : 0.925 ops/min
- anisota : 0.695 ops/min
- Void Bot : 0.461 ops/min
- Rocksky : 0.412 ops/min
- Flashes : 0.397 ops/min
- Tangled : 0.142 ops/min
- Leaflet : 0.115 ops/min
- Skyblur : 0.066 ops/min
- SkySpace : 0.030 ops/min
- Skyrdle : 0.026 ops/min
- 2048 game : 0.022 ops/min
- Pinksky : 0.020 ops/min
- BookHive : 0.018 ops/min
- Statusphere : 0.016 ops/min
- Grain : 0.012 ops/min
- Spark : 0.009 ops/min
- Germ : 0.005 ops/min
- Flushes : 0.005 ops/min
- WhiteWind : 0.004 ops/min
- Linkat : 0.002 ops/min
- Frontpage : 0.002 ops/min
- Scrapboard : 0.001 ops/min
- SonaSky : 0.001 ops/min
- Cabildo Abierto : 0.001 ops/min
- Bookmarks: 0.001 ops/min. Used by:
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: