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ATProto needs bluesky to survive. The only source of truth is hosted by bluesky https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/1892 https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/2821

comment by mrbn100ful · 2026-08-12 · in Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app

…protocol (AT Proto) to power a growing number of social apps, services, and communities." Code: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto Website: https://atproto.com/

comment by frozenseven · 2026-08-11 · in Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app

…priority than the key held by your PDS, so a malicious PDS can't simply migrate you back. [0] https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/2705 [1] Alternatively there's an option for HTTP handle resolution instead via…

comment by kyle-rb · 2026-07-10 · in ActivityPub over ATProto (2023)

…the User Intent proposal that is super easy to implement, yet they have been sitting on it since: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/3617 This would have been at least a middle ground to permissioned data, as would have…

comment by verdverm · 2026-03-31 · in I'm betting on ATProto

…issue with AT and Bsky. Here is what I believe to be the most recent discussion on that topic: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/3363

comment by consumer451 · 2026-03-26 · in Colibri – chat platform built on the AT Protocol for communities big and small

…tradeoffs for UX. The more interesting perspective is a Plug-n-Play Distributed System [2] [1] https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/compare/main...ver... [2] https://atproto.com/articles/atproto-for-distsys-engineers

comment by verdverm · 2026-03-09 · in Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

There's a bug about it, and it's already marked WONTFIX https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/issues/3143

comment by davidgerard · 2026-01-28 · in I was right about ATProto key management

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/3363 - maybe this one?

comment by ximeng · 2026-01-20 · in A Social Filesystem

Linux #1 And recently: Bluesky Social - https://github.com/bluesky-social AT Protocol - https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto

comment by stonking · 2025-11-28 · in Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?

The endpoint mentioned in those docs you linked ( https://public.api.bsky.app/ ) points to this repo: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto What is missing?

comment by extraduder_ire · 2025-10-08 · in User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality

…long as they can act as permanent identifiers. I found a response from Bryan about `did:dht` here: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/2705#d... : >did:dht is interesting and maybe could work, for atproto, but there have…

comment by danabramov · 2025-10-04 · in Where it's at://

…instead of going directly to the authoritative server itself. There's more technical details here: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/tree/main/packages...

comment by thisismissem · 2025-10-04 · in Where it's at://

…ask to write e.g. Bluesky posts). In UI, this is done through sort of "bundles" of permissions. See https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/4118 for tracking issue. > what if it pretends to write data in the Bluesky format,…

comment by danabramov · 2025-10-04 · in Where it's at://

Here is some of it: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/pull/4030

comment by verdverm · 2025-07-10 · in Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK

…. ATproto is also moving to it as its primary auth mechanism: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/2656 .

comment by Arathorn · 2025-04-03 · in Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS

…and the most recent info I'm aware of on the topic is https://alice.bsky.sh/post/3laega7icmi2q , https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/2961 and https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/federation-archit... , and…

comment by nightpool · 2025-02-19 · in When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines

the backend (the AppView) can be found here: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/tree/main/packages... there are various supporting services written in Go as well https://github.com/bluesky-social/indigo

comment by half-kh-hacker · 2025-02-19 · in When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines

…source: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app Much of the backend is open source as well: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/tree/main/packages What is not are the extra services they run to provide a better and faster UX.…

comment by verdverm · 2025-02-19 · in When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines

…probably want to use a higher level client than SQL This talks about why SQLite and not Postgres https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/2287 Repository spec: https://atproto.com/specs/repository Small program to export:…

comment by verdverm · 2025-01-22 · in NFL teams can't use Bluesky

Some more interesting breadcrumbs (what does it take to implement a repo) https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/2644

comment by verdverm · 2025-01-22 · in NFL teams can't use Bluesky

The protocol is protected. https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/ "Dual MIT/Apache-2.0 License Copyright (c) 2022-2024 Bluesky PBC, and Contributors Except as otherwise noted in individual files, this software is licensed under the MIT…

comment by mindcrash · 2025-01-19 · in We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky

…MIT/Apache [0]. Nothing seems to prevent the author from forking and hacking away. Just do it. 0. https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto

comment by adolph · 2025-01-19 · in We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky

…P.S. There's an interesting Github Issue in the ATProto repo: #3409 Call for Developer Projects ( https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/3049# )

comment by snthpy · 2024-12-18 · in Surfer: Open-Source Personal Data Warehouse

…labels that are set to !hide and you will not even be notified, posts will just start disappearing. https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/issues/2367

comment by reticulan · 2024-12-03 · in Who Is Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky?

…latest call for projects... You just don't see that sort of stuff anywhere except BlueSky anymore. https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/3049

comment by jauntywundrkind · 2024-11-24 · in Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter

…link to the fascinating github issue linked at the bottom, featuring Bluesky celebrity pfrazee: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/issues/523 I have a lot of hope for AT. I'm sure there's lots of smart people on HN that have done…

comment by bbor · 2024-11-24 · in This website is hosted on Bluesky

I believe even the protocol is fully open source. https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto

comment by consumer451 · 2024-11-14 · in Ask HN: Bluesky is #1 in the U.S. App Store. Is this a first for open source?

I did not know Bluesky’s backend ( https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto ) is written in TypeScript/JavaScript.

comment by varun_ch · 2024-11-01 · in Running Your Own Bluesky

Why would you think it's not open source? The reference implementation: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto Complete React Native Android/iOS/Web app: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app Go libraries:…

comment by jakebsky · 2024-04-24 · in Building Bluesky: A Distributed Social Network

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/1157#d...

comment by scudsworth · 2024-02-22 · in Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters

…app: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app 3. API (AppView) and PDS (Personal Data Server): https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto 4. The Relay (formerly BGS) https://github.com/bluesky-social/indigo 5. Custom algorithm (Feed…

comment by jakebsky · 2023-12-23 · in Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto

comment by nodja · 2023-12-22 · in Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

…it to create a federated social network where users have more control. • Open source protocol: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto • Websites: https://blueskyweb.xyz/ , https://atproto.com , https://bsky.app/ We’re looking for Go,…

comment by liue · 2023-05-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)

…Federation hasn’t been completed yet but is expected to be done in the coming 1-2 weeks. Go to https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto , clone it, build and run via the makefile. There are already some instances running but as said they…

comment by dgellow · 2023-04-29 · in How to set your domain as your handle

…it to create a federated social network where users have more control. • Open source protocol: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto • Websites: https://blueskyweb.xyz/ , https://atproto.com , https://bsky.app/ We’re looking for a web…

comment by arcalinea · 2023-02-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023)

…it to create a federated social network where users have more control. - Open source protocol: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto - Websites: https://blueskyweb.xyz/ , https://atproto.com , https://bsky.app/ We’re looking for a web…

comment by arcalinea · 2023-01-02 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)

Also relevant, from https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/issues/255 > Activitypub already exists. Why not just work on that? Why is this needed? Response: > There are a lot of differing design decisions. > Account portability is a…

comment by codetrotter · 2022-12-28 · in Beaker Browser is now archived

…to sign each post as well as standard asymmetric key encryption with the browsers WebCrypto API. https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/blob/main/packages...

comment by mikestaub · 2022-12-20 · in Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

Here's a contributor's (pfraze) reason for not using ActivityPub. https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/issues/255#issueco...

comment by technojunkie · 2022-11-25 · in Tumblr to Add Support for ActivityPub

…them when we can put a usable app in their hands. MIT licensed protocol code, public since May: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto

comment by arcalinea · 2022-10-19 · in The AT Protocol

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto packages directory

comment by pfraze · 2022-10-18 · in The AT Protocol

…required to build on open source protocols. You can check out some of our work in progress here: https://github.com/bluesky-social/adx More details on our site: https://blueskyweb.org/join/software-engineer To apply, email…

comment by arcalinea · 2022-08-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)

…live in Personal Data Repositories owned by the user,” the overview explains. Architecture doc: https://github.com/bluesky-social/adx/blob/main/architecture... Blog post: https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/3-6-2022-a-self-authenticating-s...

comment by vlod · 2022-05-04 · in Twitter’s decentralized, open-source offshoot just released its first code