🤔 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: 21342 ops/min
- By record group:
- Bluesky : 21040 ops/min
- Standard.site : 27.416 ops/min
- Streamplace : 22.173 ops/min
- Podping : 14.570 ops/min
- teal.fm : 11.308 ops/min
- Rocksky : 6.248 ops/min
- SIGINT Team : 2.980 ops/min
- anisota : 2.085 ops/min
- Some kind of sync from Mastodon : 1.231 ops/min
- blento : 0.901 ops/min
- Popfeed : 0.774 ops/min
- Tangled : 0.709 ops/min
- Flashes : 0.364 ops/min
- Semble : 0.256 ops/min
- Grain : 0.142 ops/min
- BookHive : 0.096 ops/min
- Skyblur : 0.066 ops/min
- Margin : 0.061 ops/min
- Leaflet : 0.046 ops/min
- Germ : 0.044 ops/min
- Skyrdle : 0.035 ops/min
- WhiteWind : 0.022 ops/min
- Spark : 0.022 ops/min
- Statusphere : 0.016 ops/min
- Pinksky : 0.013 ops/min
- Bookmarks: 0.010 ops/min. Used by:
- Flushes : 0.002 ops/min
- Linkat : 0.001 ops/min
- Frontpage : 0.001 ops/min
- 2048 game : 0.001 ops/min
- Yōten : 0.001 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: