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AT Protocol Community @atprotocol.dev · 1d

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Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 1d

@boston.gov onboarded all their agencies to Bluesky to engage with Bostonians. Whether it's broken sidewalks, missing signage, or community issues, they want to hear from constituents. With little to no engagement on X, their actual interactions on bsky have increased. Engagement > follower count

Boston Parks Department @parks.boston.gov · 1d

#DidYouKnow our Fall Fitness Series with @publichealth.boston.gov is back? 🍂💪

Register today for free in-person fitness classes at a park near you: boston.gov/fitness

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AT Protocol Community @atprotocol.dev · 1d

The Goosening. It begins. Welcome Boston!

ATProto Boston @atproto.boston · 1d

Goosetopher-zilla terrorizes the streets of Back Bay. Citizens beware!

A godzilla-sized Goosetopher tramples through the Boston skyline.

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ATProto Boston @atproto.boston · 1d

Goosetopher-zilla terrorizes the streets of Back Bay. Citizens beware!

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AT Protocol Community @atprotocol.dev · 2d

Here’s another release today. @flutterby.blue helps you make ATProto widgets for your iOS device.

Goosetopher’s latest is looking pretty sweet!

Available on TestFlight now testflight.apple.com/join/DDDtbtMr

Home page screenshot of Flutterby.blue for iOS on TestFlight

Screenshot of Flutterby.blue, setting up a large widget of this account

The finished ATProtocol.dev account showing the latest post.

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Tynan Purdy @tynanpurdy.com · 2d

@atprotocol.dev we should bring a crew to opensauce.com

lots of overlap in target demographics and I know we could prepare some cool ass hardwareXatproto demos

Open Sauce – Open Sauce 2026

opensauce.com

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 2d

we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

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AT Protocol Community @atprotocol.dev · 2d

Monday is cool ATProto release day!

From developer @ngerakines.me, a job board that is built on top of your ATProto account - @atwork.place

#athiring

AT://Work.Place @atwork.place · 2d

🚀 Introducing at://work - the job board built FOR Bluesky, ON the AT Protocol

Your Bluesky handle IS your professional profile. No separate login. No walled garden.

Create your profile at atwork.place in under 2 minutes.

Thread 🧵👇

at://work - ATProto Job Board

Your Career. Your Data. Your Place. A decentralized job board powered by the ATProtocol

atwork.place

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AT Protocol Community @atprotocol.dev · 2d

If you’re interested in ATProto for science communications, join the forum & introduce yourself.

Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 2d

ATProto has huge potential for supporting new ways of doing science, but to get there we need discussion & coordination spaces - we opened a new Discourse space for ATProto x Science at discourse.atprotocol.community/c/atproto-sc... 🧪
(w/ @bmann.ca @tgoerke.bsky.social )
Please join! 😄

ATProto Science

ATProto Science is about using ATProto for science applications, such as publishing, curation, data sharing or social discourse around research.

discourse.atprotocol.community

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AT Protocol Community @atprotocol.dev · 7d

Louder for the people in the back: we absolutely are building open social protocols, from
company to community

#WeCanJustDoThings

Bluesky @bsky.app · 7d

Bluesky runs on open protocols with open source code. Today we’re taking an additional step and making a patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everyone can build confidently on our work.

Learn more and read the pledge in our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Bluesky's Patent Non-Aggression Pledge - Bluesky

Bluesky develops open protocols. We're taking a short and simple patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everybody feels confident building on them.

bsky.social

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Richard Reisman @rreisman.bsky.social · 8d

What most people think of as @bsky.app is just the tip of the @atprotocol.dev iceberg -- and this iceberg is growing -- from the top and bottom!

dan @danabra.mov · 12d

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

Open Social — overreacted

The protocol is the API.

overreacted.io

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TJ @tunji.dev · 9d

I'm excited to announce something I've been building, an open source atproto client heron.tunji.dev!

Its currently available in beta on Google Play for Android devices. Please DM @heron.tunji.dev if you'd like early access.

It will be released to all Android users in the next few weeks!

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Boris @bmann.ca · 12d

I have a whole folder of ATProto apps on iOS (plus a select few directly on my Home Screen).

Today we call them “ATproto” apps.

In the future … they’re just a better way to build a wide range of apps, where users own their data, login in anywhere, and choose different interfaces.

Screenshot of a portion of an iOS Home Screen.

The icons for Bluesky, Ouranos, Leaflet, and Semble are shown, plus a folder labeled ATProto that has PinkSky, Popfeed, Spark, Flashes, Skylight, Anisota, Bookhive, Germ, and Anchor in it.

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AT Protocol Community @atprotocol.dev · 11d

“Like with open source, open social is a compounding effort. Every mildly successful open social app lifts all open social apps. Every piece of shared infrastructure can benefit somebody else. At some point, open is bound to win.”

dan @danabra.mov · 12d

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

Open Social — overreacted

The protocol is the API.

overreacted.io

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leaflet.pub @leaflet.pub · 12d

We're launching some Leaflet home improvements, PART ONE!

Big things here:

- unified layout/nav
- more view options for docs
- integrated 'discover'

Read on for what's new!

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Boris @bmann.ca · 14d

Not yet! I made an AT Hiring feed that is very basic but haven’t pushed it.

A general “cool ATProto people” jobs listing thing would be good. Not just for ATProto jobs of which there are very few!

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AT Protocol Community @atprotocol.dev · 13d

ATProto’s strength is its openness and we agree with Jay that alternatives are important.

That’s why we’re especially excited to support community-driven alternatives like Northsky.

bsky.app/profile/jay....

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 26d

We knew from the start we can’t get everything right. Moderation is a hard problem, and it’s impossible to please everyone. So we built a protocol where you always have the right to leave. If you don’t trust us, or don’t like our decisions, you deserve the right to choose an alternative.

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AT Protocol Community @atprotocol.dev · 13d

It’s time to launch our first #Indiesky grant!

Today we’re announcing a $5000 grant to @transrights.northsky.social for their account data migration tools and the migration campaign for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community they serve.

atprotocol.dev/the-first-in...

The First Indiesky Grant: Northsky

Today we’re announcing our first Indiesky grant, a $5000 USD contribution to Northsky, their PDS migration tools and the migration efforts for their community. We started the ATProtocol Community Fun...

atprotocol.dev

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fig (aka: [phil]) @bad-example.com · 19d

Finally publishing this about PLC! On a day with big PLC news!!

I think the news recasts this piece into more "why that's important", and less doom hopefully!

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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 19d

‘Blueskyism’, Political Violence, and Open Social Networks Under Authoritarianism

on how the last weeks have shifted the threat model for open social networks: from fighting platform decay to the threat of authoritarianism

connectedplaces.online/blueskyism-p...

‘Blueskyism’, Political Violence, and Open Social Networks Under Authoritarianism

After Kirk's murder, calls for censorship and the crackdown on political places started to include Bluesky. Open social networks must now fight political suppression as well as platform monopolies.

connectedplaces.online

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AT Protocol Community @atprotocol.dev · 19d

Slices is a new tool for builders. It lets you build, define, and combine data types from across the ATProto network and does the hard work of aggregating data across the entire network.

Built by @chadtmiller.com, who also makes the photo sharing app @grain.social

Wait list now!

Slices @slices.network · 19d

slices.network

Join the waitlist today! 👉 slices.network/waitlist

Slices - Build AT Protocol AppViews in minutes, not months

The complete development platform for AT Protocol applications. Deploy schemas, query indexed data, authenticate users. Everything you need to ship your AppView.

slices.network

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AT Protocol Community @atprotocol.dev · 19d

You know we're all about growing that #indiesky life, so we're excited to see these steps to make the PLC more independent!

bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 19d

excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service

Creating an Independent Public Ledger of Credentials (PLC) Directory Organization | Bluesky

The Bluesky Social app is built on an open network protocol that refers to each user by a unique Decentralized Identifier, or DID (a W3C standard). The most popular supported DID method was developed ...

docs.bsky.app

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AT Protocol Community @atprotocol.dev · 22d

The brands are coming!

Or at least, @tangled.sh now has Dolly the Sheep. A nice friend for Gustopher!

Tangled @tangled.org · 22d

iiiiit's dolly! everyone, say hello to dolly. 🐑

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AT Protocol Community @atprotocol.dev · 22d

You can subscribe to the For You feed here

Thanks @spacecowboy17.bsky.social!

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AT Protocol Community @atprotocol.dev · 22d

The “For You” feed recommends posts relevant to you.

You can also see why every post showed up for you. 👇

spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 23d

The algorithm behind For You is very simple so it's easy to see why any post shows up.

Curious? Then:
1. Go to linklonk.com/bluesky
2. Enter your user name
3. Enter the post url to explain
4. Hit Submit

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Boris @bmann.ca · 24d

Happy ATmosphere anniversary @baileytownsend.dev!

Bailey Townsend 🦀 @baileytownsend.dev · 24d

Happy 1 year to me on Bluesky/ATProtocol 🥳. It has been a fun year and I am excited to see what the next one brings.

Bailey Townsend 🦀 @baileytownsend.dev · Sep 16

Hey everyone 👋

Thought I’d start off this account talking about my work on controlling a the toy robot from the early 2000s with a Raspberry Pico and Rust

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