What is the ATProto and how will affect the future of social media?

1. Bluesky; giving freedom to public
again
Emre Yilmaz @delirehberi / emre.xyz
Bluesky & ATProto

2. @delirehberi
emre yilmaz
• software dev since 2007
• devops since 2012
• eres biotech cto
• workouse founder
• webend, aydin yazilimci agi, ankaraphp, haskell turkiye organizer
• wtkizmir’2014, dev-izmir ex-organizer
• atolye15, onedio, 7cups ex-dev

5. GNUSocial
Social Network
Posts, polls, status updates etc.
StatusNet
Ostatus spec
Atom,ActivityStreams, PubSubHubbub, Salmon,
WebFinger
2012-10-09 closed (ostatus.org)

6. JSON-LD
ActivityStream
WebFinger

7. What was wrong?
•Bad performance on a scale
•Unclear security specs
•Only motivation is Ideology
•Spec is not strict
•Twitter was enough free

8. Is that the right time?

9. black*start

10. The only way truly have free speech, to truly be cencorship resistent is
to work on open protocols and there are only two at scale I’m aware
of.

11. Atproto
Social networking technology created by Bluesky

12. Federation?
There is only one pds for now in prod
• https://staging.bsky.app/
• You can start to write or self-hosted your pds in staging
• https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds
• https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds/blob/main/SANDBOX.md

13. Choose your algorithm
Custom Algorithms / Custom Feeds

14. Custom Algorithms / Custom Feeds

16. Custom Algorithms / Custom Feeds

18. Sources
• http://archive.emre.xyz/archive/1697024841.471056/gist.github.com/jdarcy/
60107fe4e653819138396257df302eef.html
• http://archive.emre.xyz/archive/1697025078.333568/overengineer.dev/blog/2019/01/13/activitypub-
fi
nal-
thoughts-one-year-later.html
• https://atproto.com/guides/overview
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/@atproto/api?activeTab=readme
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/
fi
refox/addon/skylink-bluesky-did-detector/
• https://
fi
resky.tv/ Firehose stream reader
• https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats
• http://archive.emre.xyz/archive/1697026561.335476/readability/content.html
• http://archive.emre.xyz/archive/1697026535.299593/blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture.html