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by pfraze

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Just want to add that the AT Protocol IETF working group has been formed, and the PLC directory independent organization and board has officially been established. I’m at the closing talk for this years Atmosphere Conference as I write this and it’s really an incredible community of devs.

by danpalmer

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I can really get behind this positive take on ATProto and the ecosystem. I know there was early criticism, but much of that stems from the project taking a fairly long-term viewpoint early on, and then having to work their way towards fulfilling that. We're now at that point, and the model looks great.

by marcus_holmes

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What's the trade-off between this and ActivityPub?
I might be being cynical but I think I've seen this story play out before. Did Bluesky genuinely believe that AP wouldn't work for their use-case, or did they want to own the protocol?

by Kye

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Since this re-surfaced from the second chance queue, this is a good place to say they just announced the first and very important steps to an independent PLC directory: https://martianbase.net/@mackuba/116314877708269740
From the alt text:
Initial board
- Bryan Newbold - Bluesky, protocol engineer
- Richard Barnes - Co-founder Let's Encrypt, Co-author MLS, ACME, HPKE, etc
- Wendy Seltzer - Internet Lawyer & open standards advocate
- Filippo Valsorda - Cryptographer, Go cryptography maintainer, transparency log aficionado
- Thyla van der Merwe - Cryptographer, security & privacy engineer at Google
This is on top of the IETF working group news: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/atp/about/

by dinakernel

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The best part was the Doom running over AT Protocol. Jetstream is a bit patchy, but running Doom - I would never have thought it possible

by fsflover

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Related: Cory Doctorow joined Bluesky using self-hosting:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/05/executive-dysfunction/

by aaron695

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by isodev

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I don’t get this post at all. Just because the Bluesky people opted to call things “open” doesn’t make it so. ATproto helps the open web as much as NFTs and DAPs did before it.