🤔 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: 10128 ops/min
- By record group:
- ATFile: 0.000 ops/min
- Bluesky: 10126 ops/min
- Blue Badge: 0.000 ops/min
- Bookmarks: 0.000 ops/min. Used by:
- Cabildo Abierto: 0.000 ops/min
- Flashes: 0.398 ops/min
- Frontpage: 0.001 ops/min
- Linkat: 0.002 ops/min
- Picosky: 0.000 ops/min
- Pinksky: 0.019 ops/min
- Popsky: 0.005 ops/min
- ProtoScript: 0.000 ops/min
- Rocksky: 0.224 ops/min
- Roomy: 0.002 ops/min
- Skyblur: 0.055 ops/min
- SkySpace: 0.001 ops/min
- Smoke Signal: 0.005 ops/min
- SonaSky: 0.008 ops/min
- Statusphere: 0.003 ops/min
- Streamplace: 0.001 ops/min
- Tangled: 0.049 ops/min
- WhiteWind: 0.074 ops/min
- Some kind of sync from Mastodon: 0.571 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: