couple #atmosphereconf questions around what apps/projects we'd love to see here is a big list we have today! will try to get out something punchier soon [Call for Developer Projects · ...](

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Call for Developer Projects · bluesky-social/atproto · Discussion #3049

The last few weeks have seen a swell of developer interest in atproto. Welcome! The protocol is maturing, and now is a great time for early adopter...

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some group discussions i'm hoping to have at #atmosphereconf: "IndieSky": there are a few scaled-down bsky appview projects. how can we get to an out-of-box "service distribution" which people can self-host?

this doesn't seem to have impacted too many folks or services, but it is worth checking any consuming services you operate. this took place around: Friday 14 March 2025 18:21:51 UTC (plus/minus a few minutes) should be seeing current sequences (now) like 6492917018 RE:

Bluesky Social

bryan newbold (✈️ vacation/travel through mid-Jan) (@bnewbold.net)

we may have had an operational oops with the bluesky firehose (bsky.network), resulting in some far-future sequences being emitted. depending on h...

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we may have had an operational oops with the bluesky firehose ([bsky.network](https://bsky.network )), resulting in some far-future sequences being emitted. depending on how strict consumers are, might need to roll-back sequence. looking in to details now.

oh no is she yaccarino-posting RE:

Bluesky Social

Jay 🦋 (@jay.bsky.team)

Bluesky is the place for science. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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atproto devs! this is a small one: we are updating the NSID syntax to allow non-leading digits in the final 'name' segment. this makes 'com.example.postV2' a valid NSID (it wasn't before). this will take a while to roll out everywhere, and will be "broken" until it works everywhere... [NSID: allow digits in 'name' s...](

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NSID: allow digits in 'name' segment by bnewbold · Pull Request #402 · bluesky-social/atproto-website

Closes: #391 indigo (golang) PR: bluesky-social/indigo#981 atproto (typescript) PR: bluesky-social/atproto#3633 interop tests PR: bluesky-social/at...

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got a new proposal up for web policy wonks! calling these "User Intents" this is a mechanism to let atproto users declare their preferences around certain categories of data use, like generative AI, public access archiving, bulk datasets, and protocol bridging [github.com/bluesky-social...](📃.md )

👩‍💻 ¡atproto devs! 🧑‍💻 just in time for the weekend: our protocol roadmap for the first half of 2025. we got auth scopes, we got merkle tree inversions, we got deprecations, we got balmy spring weather and long walks in the forest. check it out! [2025 Protocol Roadmap (Spring ...](

2025 Protocol Roadmap (Spring and Summer) | Bluesky

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'com.atproto.lore.*'

made some updates to 'goat', and wrote up a guide to registering a recovery key for a DID PLC, which gives better independent ownership of network identity. this is a *bit* more accessible that previously, but still oriented towards devs and power users. one small step, etc, etc [Registering Identity Recovery ...](

Registering Identity Recovery Keys via PDS, using goat | bryan newbold (✈️ vacation/travel through mid-Jan)

One of the big design goals for atproto is for users to "own their network identity". If something goes wrong with a hosting provider, it should be...

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