🤔 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 15 hours.
- Total: 19940 ops/min
- By record group:
- Bluesky : 19936 ops/min
- Some kind of sync from Mastodon : 1.186 ops/min
- anisota : 0.849 ops/min
- Rocksky : 0.675 ops/min
- Void Bot : 0.653 ops/min
- Flashes : 0.366 ops/min
- Leaflet : 0.172 ops/min
- Tangled : 0.072 ops/min
- 2048 game : 0.067 ops/min
- BookHive : 0.055 ops/min
- teal.fm : 0.051 ops/min
- Skyblur : 0.044 ops/min
- Streamplace : 0.036 ops/min
- Yōten : 0.028 ops/min
- WhiteWind : 0.023 ops/min
- Skyrdle : 0.017 ops/min
- Pinksky : 0.010 ops/min
- Popsky : 0.008 ops/min
- Roomy : 0.006 ops/min
- Linkat : 0.005 ops/min
- Statusphere : 0.002 ops/min
- Flushes : 0.002 ops/min
- Spark : 0.001 ops/min
- SonaSky : 0.001 ops/min
- ShadowSky : 0.001 ops/min
- Frontpage : 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: