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AT Protocol

Federated protocol underlying Bluesky, with repositories, lexicons, relays, and App Views that third parties can self-host.

Known aliases

  • atproto
  • AT Proto
  • ATprotocol
  • Authenticated Transfer Protocol

Current stories

productConfirmed3 publishers

Bluesky's Attie now turns a typed prompt into a small social app on the AT Protocol

Bluesky has extended its Attie AI tool from custom feeds to prompt-built small social apps that run on the AT Protocol. Its pitch is a built-in audience on a network of 47 million registered users, where TechCrunch reports engagement has declined.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 46%
Operator
Operator 16%
Investor
Investor 38%

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives60
Confidence60
securityConfirmed2 publishers

Cloudflare's EmDash 1.0 blocks sandboxed plugins from site data until an admin approves

Cloudflare's EmDash 1.0 CMS starts each sandboxed plugin with only its own storage and blocks seven kinds of site resource until an admin approves. It answers the WordPress model, where every plugin shares the site's PHP process with direct access to its database, files and network.

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption25
Hype gap+25
Incentives70
Confidence60
productConfirmed4 publishers

Bluesky's new opt-out asks every AT Proto app to keep your posts out of recommendations

The account-level toggle keeps a user's posts out of Bluesky's Discover feed for people who do not follow them, but honoring it elsewhere on the protocol is voluntary, which leaves reach as the control on offer.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 27%
Operator
Operator 54%
Investor
Investor 19%

Reality

Evidence78
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives30
Confidence76
productOne report1 publisher

Two letters on one Monday ended the URL swap that read X without a login

Nitter and Xcancel both stopped after X Corp wrote to them on the same August Monday, and every workflow that read a public post without an account now needs one, or a paid API key. Neither maintainer will discuss the letters yet.

Publishers:techdirt.com

Reality

Evidence64
Adoption45
Hype gap+18
Incentives68
Confidence58
buildOne report1 publisher

A Bluesky starter pack is three records, and only the metadata edit is repeatable

The app shows one shareable page. The record layer shows twenty-two writes for a twenty-person pack, and no safe way to run them twice.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence44
Adoption17
Hype gap−8
Incentives58
Confidence41
buildOne report1 publisher

Bluesky names its infrastructure, and puts a token on the archive

Jetstream v2 adds network replay, so AT Protocol builders can recover from downtime without backfilling repos themselves. The catch is that archive requests now need an API token.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption18
Hype gap+34
Incentives58
Confidence33