🤔 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: 21670 ops/min
- By record group:
- Bluesky : 21433 ops/min
- Streamplace : 33.548 ops/min
- Standard.site : 21.673 ops/min
- Podping : 14.582 ops/min
- teal.fm : 12.171 ops/min
- Semble : 5.504 ops/min
- Rocksky : 5.325 ops/min
- SIGINT Team : 2.991 ops/min
- Some kind of sync from Mastodon : 2.216 ops/min
- anisota : 1.632 ops/min
- BookHive : 0.579 ops/min
- Flashes : 0.379 ops/min
- Tangled : 0.328 ops/min
- Popfeed : 0.286 ops/min
- Grain : 0.205 ops/min
- blento : 0.167 ops/min
- Leaflet : 0.087 ops/min
- Skyblur : 0.061 ops/min
- Margin : 0.046 ops/min
- Spark : 0.035 ops/min
- Skyrdle : 0.028 ops/min
- Germ : 0.024 ops/min
- Pinksky : 0.018 ops/min
- Statusphere : 0.004 ops/min
- 2048 game : 0.003 ops/min
- WhiteWind : 0.002 ops/min
- SonaSky : 0.002 ops/min
- Yōten : 0.001 ops/min
- Smoke Signal : 0.001 ops/min
- Linkat : 0.001 ops/min
- Frontpage : 0.001 ops/min
- Flushes : 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: