Bookmarks tagged ATProto and bluesky

The Bluesky firehose visualized in 3D

"If you don't live under a rock, you might've heard of Bluesky, a decentralised social microblogging app built on top of the AT Protocol. In early June 2023, I identified a vulnerability in Bluesky's core user identity mechanism, did:plc, which allowed me to modify the identity information associated with any* account. I tested my hypothesis by changing the handle of the official @bsky.app account."

Detailed breakdown of how bluesky/atproto (and to a lesser extent activitypub) work
"...Under these definitions, Bluesky and ATProto are not meaningfully decentralized, and are not federated either. However, this is not to say that Bluesky is not achieving something useful; while Bluesky is not building what is presently a decentralized Twitter, it is building an excellent replacement for Twitter, and Bluesky's main deliverable goal is something else instead: a Twitter replacement, with the possibility of "credible exit"."

Further Reading: https://social.coop/@cwebber/113527462572885698

A list of all known tools available for the Bluesky platform

generate heatmaps based on bluesky posting frequency

Source Code: https://github.com/aliceisjustplaying/bluesky-heatmap

View the entire bluesky firehose

Resolve a Bluesky handle

Federated link-aggregator for atproto (bluesky's protocol)

"In this post you will learn about how I built a comment interface on top the ATProto protocol and Bluesky social network. The post is relatively technical, but I also try to tell a story of how I got to this point. Read on if you are interested in social networks, decentralized protocols, open standards, and Bluesky."