Announcing atproto.science! #ATproto has huge potential for supporting new ways of doing research, so we started @atproto.science to help bring together researchers, build community, and explore what's possible when science meets cutting-edge open social network protocols! 🧪 >

I think this is far enough along to post about now pegasus, a pds implementation in ocaml, ~feature parity with the bluesky pds (minus app passwords because those are gross) repo includes various other atproto-relevant libraries in ocaml for interested sickos tangled.org/futur.blue/p...

thanks for the love @techaltar.bsky.social! we know this feature isn't for everyone, but it matters a lot for some. appreciate how you highlighted the privacy-first approach we took here (thanks to @retr0.id)

Threads is effectively shelving their fediverse integration, after it saw marginally little use Zuck has played the game well, harming both open protocol movements while growing his platform, getting good PR and distracting regulators connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

Last week we released Tap, a tool to help you sync the Atmosphere, and it got me thinking about how revolutionary backfillability really is.

DEMO — Leaflet's new Bluesky thread viewer in action! ✨ Here's what it looks like to browse Bluesky post embeds; this *also* works to view replies to any quotes / mentions on Bluesky, from the sidebar. Let us know what you think!

Backed filled flashes.blue lexicons yesterday/last night locally with Tap. Did the search on blue.flashes.actor.profile. - Took over 12 hours - 19.6k total repos - 220gigs of data (includes firehose/exports) - 202k records (157k posts, 17.8k profiles, 27k portfolio) - sqlite db is 74.8mb

Join us in London on Feb 4-5, 2026 to discuss how we can preserve an open, equitable web, where no one company holds the keys. Here are the initial announcements 🎉 #ProtocolsForPublishers protocolsforpublishers.com/pfp-london-d...

If you want to make a copy of the entire Bluesky network (or some subset of it, or some other app built on atproto), Tap is now the best way do do it. I hope this will enable more people do do, for example, interesting social network analysis research

Announcing eurosky.social accounts - launching January 2026. ✅ Managed by Eurosky, a European non-profit initiative ✅ Hosted on European cloud ✅ Governed by European law www.eurosky.social/register

As we improve the 📰 Trending News feed, we are conducting research based on usage. The purpose is to evaluate feed designs and improve experiences on Bluesky 💚 This thread contains key information regarding consent.

We just released Tap, a tool designed to handle the hard parts of repo synchronization, so you can focus on building your application. It's now easier than ever to stay up to date with Atmosphere records for dev, data analysis, or any other task at hand! docs.bsky.app/blog/introdu...

We have just published our initial roadmap and announced our inaugural Technical Design Committee. We want to hear from all of you if we're focusing on the right things and what you think of our roadmap! Drop a comment in the GitHub discussion linked in the blog. roost.tools/blog/introdu...

Excited to see you all in Vancouver!

I've been thinking about how oEmbed could work for ATProto records. Currently, you can embed a Bluesky post on any website by passing the post's bsky.app. URL to the oEmbed service. It would be nice if you could also embed records from other ATProto lexicons. Here's a possible solution... (1/8)

We really want to get these OAuth permission sets right so we're taking our time and looking for feedback

lots of small but important improvements in this release. with this wave of Age Assurance work done, we can refocus on growing the @bsky.app team and building features for yall!

It's launch day, I pulled the trigger!!! There's still *so* much to do, but I think it's in a reasonable enoigh state for yall to try :) Would love to hear your feedback!!

Designers of ATproto! I want to host a design workshop/session at #AtmosphereConf2026 What would you like to see at such an event? Would you like to help? What can we do to make the Atmosphere better? @aka.dad @renderg.host @zeu.dev @danhon.com

A not-terribly original 2026 prediction: an AT Protocol native media company will launch (if you're thinking about this, hmu!)

As a lifelong iPhone guy, I can count on one hand the number of Android apps I've ever wanted to use on a daily basis. @heron.tunji.dev is one of them and the level of thoughtfulness detailed here shows why.

cool news, sidetrail.app is now open source on @tangled.org! the stack: - atproto (jetstream + new lex client) - next 16 + cacheComponents (yes, a recent version) - postgres + drizzle, redis - vitest

Early bird tickets for #ATmosphereConf are available NOW. I'm even told by a reliable source that the weather will be incredible, but not so great that you don't want to attend sessions.

So many bits of this post really resonate

Posting on Bluesky about my article about Bluesky in @techpolicypress.bsky.social Composable Moderation decentralizes rule-setting, reducing pressure on any single platform and limiting attempts to “work the refs.” www.techpolicy.press/composable-m...

Our most-used words this year aren't a big surprise: 'community', 'building', and 'conversations'. Find out your own most-used words using Bluesky Harvest: bsky.app/profile/anis...

Excited to meet you at ATmosphereConf in March, the call for proposals is now open!

If you were enjoying a tryptophan nap (I know it's a myth, just go with it) or on a hike or at the movies, you might have missed @anisota.net made you a lovely personal Bluesky Year in Review.

The Bluesky API is so much fun to work with because it works via CORS and without requiring authentication - so you can knock something out using plain HTML and JavaScript and host it anywhere you like as a static page

The best (American) holiday is nearly here and with it a bit of gratitude to the Atmosphere. Thank you!

Love these little bits of polish

Being the newest person on the team means I've got a lot of catching up to do, it also means I get to get started with all the latest tooling, like this excellent SDK update from @matthieu.bsky.team

Getting OAuth right is no mean feat, Alex has done excellent updating the guidelines while we finalize the scopes work.

Great write up about interoperability, data portability, and probably another -ility

Milestone alert: We're celebrating our first anniversary today! In just one year, we went from an idea on a blog post to sending 8.6 *million* users 23.5 *billion* posts across thousands of feeds created by thousands of brilliant, creative people who are working together to create a better internet.

I've been excited by the apps that are sharing Lexicons and building experiences that haven't really been possible on the social web

yall aren't ready for how nice this new lex sdk turned out

Come for the cultural anthropology insult, stay for the Stallman burn alex-bsky.leaflet.pub/3m63hpnpeu22m

Reply of the day 💀

There are 400+ apps built on @atproto.com with daily active users 🤯 @tangled.org is building GitHub but better for indie devs; @gandersocial.bsky.social building an app that follows Canadian laws; etc. We built Bluesky for builders and they are BUILDING!! And I got to meet @laurenshof.online 🤩

Going to publish a Leaflet later today, but Sill has PDS-published bookmarks now!

🎶 All the buttons round (All the buttons round) And the sky is blue (And the sky is blue) When your phone goes dark (When. Your. Phone. Goes dark) Icon's a different hue (It's a different huuUUUuue)

Excellent summary of the state of the open social web by @werd.io werd.io/the-state-of...

We’re *considering* a feature that would make finding IRL friends on Bluesky easier and we need your help to make sure it’s safe and secure.

IF YOU ARE RUNNING YOUR OWN PDS I am sorry but I am about to make a change to our docker compose.yaml to switch to a fork of the watchtower service that handles updates -- see github.com/bluesky-soci... unfortunately, upstream is now unmaintained and we can't push this out any more cleanly. thanks!

i receive a lot of questions about what anisota is and isn't, so i thought i'd write a quick post to clear a few things up

Apologies for sliding and hijacking this but ROOST is still accepting applications for our Staff software engineer role! We're a v small team so this person ideally has a mix of backend and frontend experience. Improving the UI of T&S tools is my personal soapbox roost.tools/staff-softwa...

I'll be rolling up all these additions into a blog post this week, but I just noticed that our Migration Guide (https://atproto.com/guides/account-migration) was missing from the docs nav until just now, if anyone needs it!

One thing that's been heavily proven to me is Bluesky is not all politics. The music, record, cd, movie, books, horror and lots more scenes are heavily alive and well here with almost zero negativity. Better engagement here than Facebook has been in years.

I'm building a browser extension that adds an analytics dashboard for your Bluesky account. It shows your top supporters, post analytics, and engagement metrics in a slide-out panel. More to come! 😊 Thoughts? Know anyone who'd be interested in trying it? #Tech #BuildInPublic #atproto