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Building on ATProto
24 Jul 2026
Building on ATProto
What happened
- The author spent part of last week at the Local First Conference in Berlin.
- Multiple key Bluesky people were at the Local First Conference in Berlin.
- The community is currently designing what they call 'permissioned data' for ATProto.
- The author states: 'I want ATProto to be the answer for me. I want to again live in a world where application developers use public, community driven standards to create interoperable applications with common data standards.'
- The author states: 'I've lost the willingness to give big corporations a permanent right to control how I use my own data.'
- The author and their wife have more than a thousand bookmarks in Yelp.
- The author quotes from an ATProto design document: 'public broadcast data is substantially different from permissioned data.'
- ATProto is designed and built as a public-only protocol.
- The author states: 'Private and public data are basically identical. A restaurant review is a restaurant review whether I am the only one who ever sees it or it gets shouted to the rooftops.'
Numbers
- The author and their wife have more than a thousand bookmarks in Yelp. (1000)
Why founders should care
- May indicate faster shipping cycles for teams adopting the new tools.