Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable Decentralized Social Media

Paper by Martin Kleppmann and eight Bluesky engineers explaining the design of Bluesky and AT Protocol; published at an ACM CoNEXT workshop in December 2024.

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about

• AT Protocol standard 2022 [src]
• Bluesky project 2019 [src]

critiques

• ActivityPub standard 2018 [src]

authored by

• Daniel Holmgren person [src]
• Jay Graber person b. 1991 [src]
• Martin Kleppmann person [src]
• Paul Frazee person [src]