🤔 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: 19665 ops/min
- By record group:
- Bluesky : 19505 ops/min
- Streamplace : 16.306 ops/min
- Podping : 14.581 ops/min
- teal.fm : 14.454 ops/min
- Standard.site : 12.855 ops/min
- SIGINT Team : 2.987 ops/min
- anisota : 2.051 ops/min
- Rocksky : 0.878 ops/min
- Some kind of sync from Mastodon : 0.843 ops/min
- Popfeed : 0.766 ops/min
- Tangled : 0.661 ops/min
- Grain : 0.432 ops/min
- Flashes : 0.428 ops/min
- Semble : 0.219 ops/min
- blento : 0.147 ops/min
- BookHive : 0.083 ops/min
- Skyblur : 0.042 ops/min
- Margin : 0.035 ops/min
- Spark : 0.025 ops/min
- SkySpace : 0.022 ops/min
- Pinksky : 0.016 ops/min
- Statusphere : 0.012 ops/min
- Germ : 0.010 ops/min
- Skyrdle : 0.010 ops/min
- Frontpage : 0.006 ops/min
- Leaflet : 0.004 ops/min
- 2048 game : 0.004 ops/min
- SonaSky : 0.003 ops/min
- Roomy : 0.002 ops/min
- Flushes : 0.002 ops/min
- WhiteWind : 0.001 ops/min
- Smoke Signal : 0.001 ops/min
- Scrapboard : 0.001 ops/min
- Linkat : 0.001 ops/min
- Cabildo Abierto : 0.001 ops/min
- Bookmarks: 0.001 ops/min. Used by:
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: