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Off Protocol
By BlueskyTechnology
Off Protocol episodes
- Protocolly Atmoseed
Jim and Alex return to the livestream with another news roundup from across the Atmosphere,including a proposal to fix localhost, more webdevs getting into atproto, Mu Social's opinionated news feed, and more.
Links and Resources
- A proposal to allow localhost redirect URIs in the localhost dev exception in the OAuth spec
- Dan Abramov on the Shoptalk podcast
- Mu Social gets an opinionated newsfeed
- Atmosphere Community continues to grow as a hub
- PDS Operator from Brookie
- Blacksky-only posts
- Pckt notes
- Leaflet adds publication pages
- Offprint adds standalone pages, custom nav, and components
- Bluesky defensively trademarks AT Protocol
- Head to the Recurse center August 22 for the atproto.nyc community day
- Tangled's Bobbin API app
- The Eurosky Portal showcases apps across the Atmosphere
- All the latest meetups, IRL and virtual
The archive for this episode, including a generated transcript, is available at https://atproto.com/off-protocol/2026-07-23-livestream-protocolly-atmoseed.
Off Protocol is a production of the Bluesky developer relations team. For more about AT Protocol and an archive of this show, head to atproto.com.
Our theme music was composed and produced by Saleem Reshamwala.
Catch our livestream every other Wednesday at stream.place/atproto.com.
37 min - “Nothing Is Ever Over”
There’s no shortage of diagnosis of what went wrong with the social web, most of it on the social web. It’s a familiar space for writer, speaker, and researcher Erin Kissane, who’s spent a career with a sharp eye and an indefatigable resolve doing what she fully admits isn’t really anyone’s job.
Sorting out the why we’re building new apps, networks, and protocols is just as important as the how, and Erin is a steady guide. In this wonderfully wide-ranging conversation, she and Jim work through familiar arcs of technology with some important takeaways for a new generation of network builders.
Links and Resources
Erin’s work
- Erin Kissane’s research studio, wreckage/salvage
- “Meta in Myanmar”, Erin’s multi-part series on Facebook and the Rohingya genocide
- Unflooding the zone with the Unbreaking Project
- The Covid tracking project
- Erin’s talk at XOXO about not retreating from the big-world social internet
- “Against the Dark Forest” further explores some of the ideas from her XOXO talk
- Erin’s Fediverse governance project (co-authored with Darius Kazemi), which we didn’t even have a chance to get into
- “People in Platforms” Erin’s 2025 Atmosphere Conf talk
- “Landslide / Holdfast” Erin’s 2026 Atmosphere Conf talk
People and ideas referenced
- Twitter and Tear Gas by Zeynep Tufekci
- John Perry Barlow’s “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”
- “The street finds its own use for things” from William Gibson’s Burning Chrome
- Karen Hao’s work with whistleblower Sophie Zhang
- Amnesty International: “Facebook’s systems promoted violence against Rohingya; Meta owes reparations”
- UN Human Rights Council’s independent international fact-finding mission on Myanmar
- C. Thi Nguyen’s Hostile Epistemology
- Vices of the Mind by Quassim Cassam
- The Engine Room
- Yancey Strickler’s Dark Forest Theory collection of posts
- “The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web” by Maggie Appleton
- Bonfire networks
The archive for this episode, including a generated transcript, is available at https://atproto.com/off-protocol/2026-07-22-erin-kissane.
Off Protocol is a production of the Bluesky developer relations team. For more about AT Protocol and an archive of this show, head to atproto.com.
Our theme music was composed and produced by Saleem Reshamwala.
Catch our livestream every other Wednesday at stream.place/atproto.com.
1 hr 17 min - Sometimes You Just Want to Hold the Entire Network in Your Hand
Jim and Alex are back after a holiday weekend and a backlog of atproto news. Daniel Holmgren has shipped the permissioned data proposal just in time to celebrate America's semiquincentennial, with the help of plenty of community input and a new communities feature in the Bluesky app being developed in lockstep.
Tangled has added full-text code search and a new microVM-back CI engine, and there's a new tool for mirroring your GitHub repos over there. Plus, new releases from Anisota and the general availability of Roomy.
We also take a digression or two into effective outreach on other platforms, and don't miss the new job posting on the Bluesky Atmosphere team.
Links and Resources
- Permissioned data is officially official
- The inaugural atproto working group will be happening at IETF
- Some big releases from Tangled
- Sync your GitHub repos to Tangled with Syncub
- The new Anisota is more of an atmosphere client than just Bluesky
- Roomy is generally available
- Senior full stack engineering role on the Atmosphere team
- All the latest meetups, IRL and virtual
The archive for this episode, including a generated transcript, is available at https://atproto.com/off-protocol/network-in-your-hand.
Off Protocol is a production of the Bluesky developer relations team. For more about AT Protocol and an archive of this show, head to atproto.com.
Our theme music was composed and produced by Saleem Reshamwala.
Catch our livestream every other Wednesday at stream.place/atproto.com.
34 min - The Iron’s Still Hot
Daniel Holmgren, Head of Protocol at Bluesky, joins Jim and Alex for a live AMA on the permissioned data project. Their conversation starts with a core question: why does permissioned data need to be a separate protocol at all, rather than an extension of the existing public one?
Then Daniel answers your questions about how “spaces” compose into communities, governance issues around community-owned DIDs, writing to another person’s PDS (short version: don’t), a Giphy-style sharing use case, moderation in non-encrypted spaces, and why space declarations are lexicons rather than records.
Up top, the usual news from the Atmosphere.
Links and Resources
- A new account management interface for the reference PDS
- A summer of blogging with Standard.site
- Leaflet's Standard.site explainer
- Devin Ivy's Atmospheric login diary
- co/core is pooled inference from Graze Social
- Marque.at is a domain registrar on atproto and locale.at is a translations framework, both built by Padding Labs
- Gifthood is a buy-nothing community project
- Daniel's permissioned data proposal
- Nick Gerakines read-through of Daniel's proposal
The archive for this episode, including a generated transcript, is available at https://atproto.com/off-protocol/ama-dholms-irons-still-hot.
Off Protocol is a production of the Bluesky developer relations team. For more about AT Protocol and an archive of this show, head to atproto.com.
Our theme music was composed and produced by Saleem Reshamwala.
Catch our livestream every other Wednesday at stream.place/atproto.com.
47 min - “Policy Without Tools Is Just Poetry”
Head of product at ROOST, Juliet Shen, drops by for a conversation about Coop reaching version 1.0. Coop is ROOST's review and moderation platform used by organizations of all shapes and sizes, including Bluesky. It's also the first trust and safety tool that manages detection, review, and reporting in a free and open source tool.
Juliet and Alex get into why encoding moderation policy in the open matters—including The Christchurch Call Foundation—and where AI actually fits into a moderation workflow.
They also dig into what the 1.0 release means in practice: a more manageable memory footprint, Scylla now optional (with some tentpole summer movie cross-promo potential), and the ability to run a full production instance on a small team's budget.
Links and Resources
- Coop 1.0 announcement
- Coop 1.0 livestream
- ROOST's project roadmap
The archive for this episode, including a generated transcript, is available at https://atproto.com/off-protocol/roost-v1-juliet-shen.
Off Protocol is a production of the Bluesky developer relations team. For more about AT Protocol and an archive of this show, head to atproto.com.
Our theme music was composed and produced by Saleem Reshamwala.
Catch our livestream every other Wednesday at stream.place/atproto.com.
20 min - The Cobbler’s Kids
Jim and Alex return to the livestream, now at a new time and day and even a scheduling widget on the Off Protocol homepage built on the event community lexicon. They take a look at the growing new crop of Standard.site-powered personal sites, while wondering what happened to their own sites, and the new class of reader apps showing up.
Alex covers Coop 1.0 from the team at ROOST and how even small teams now have access to moderation tools. Eurosky keeps launching new things at a pace possibly intended to confuse American audiences, we want your feedback about permissioned data, Streamplace VOD is now in closed beta, and more.
Links and Resources
- Check the shiny new upcoming livestream widget
- The Lexicon Community event Lexicon
- We love/hate standard.horse
- Don't use Lexicons that don't exist
- Standard Reader is a new Standard.site reader app with some fun discovery features
- CodeTV Web Dev Challenge featureing atproto
- CodeTV rebuild your personal website hackathon
- Coop 1.0 launched
- Coop launch livestream
- Eurosky launched mu
- Daniel Holmgren's permissioned data diaries
- Streamplace VOD beta
- OAuth scope builder widget
- Find a local meetup
The archive for this episode, including a generated transcript, is available at https://atproto.com/off-protocol/cobblers-kids.
Off Protocol is a production of the Bluesky developer relations team. For more about AT Protocol and an archive of this show, head to atproto.com.
Our theme music was composed and produced by Saleem Reshamwala.
Catch our livestream every other Wednesday at stream.place/atproto.com.
41 min - In Our Timeline
Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee and Head of Protocol Daniel Holmgren step in for Jim and Alex on the livestream this week. They get into Standard.site's community-built publishing lexicon getting an integration into the Bluesky app, as well as a long-awaited overhaul to the TypeScript SDK. Daniel shares the latest from the permissioned data project, including a target of June for a formal proposal and PDS alpha. Plus news from PDS Moover, the launch of Latinsky and Medsky on Acorn, self-hostable small language models for moderation, and more news from around the Atmosphere.
Links and Resources
- Standard.site integration announcement post
- Off Protocol interview with the Standard.site core team
- Daniel's permissioned data Lexicon proposal
- Zicklag's arbiter proposal for permissioned data
- Typescript SDK updates
- PDS Moover, now with backups
- Rich Ferro's announcement that Medsky is open
- Zentropi's small language model for content classification
- Atmosphere community events
- Dame launched a new version of Aturi, a browser plugin for working with atproto
The archive for this episode, including a generated transcript, is available at https://atproto.com/off-protocol/in-our-timeline.
Off Protocol is a production of the Bluesky developer relations team. For more about AT Protocol and an archive of this show, head to atproto.com.
Our theme music was composed and produced by Saleem Reshamwala.
Catch our livestream every other Wednesday at stream.place/atproto.com.
47 min - Why Don’t We Just Do This Together?
Standard.site is, as best we can tell, the most successful community-driven Lexicon in the AT Protocol ecosystem to date. Even more amazing, this shared format for blog posts, articles, and newsletters was built and continues to be governed by three competing blogging platforms: Offprint, Leaflet, and pckt.blog.
Jim sat down with three of the core team members, Brooke from pckt.blog, Miguel from Offprint, and Jared from Leaflet, to walk through how they found each other, why they decided a single shared format was better than three competing ones, and why they deliberately kept it small.
This conversation gets into the design decision to standardize on the metadata while keeping the content field open and customizable, the gnarly work of migrating thousands of existing posts to a new format across a decentralized network, and how this core team of competitors governs the standard. They also lay out where they see things going with the possibility of new types of reader apps, new ways of monetization that support writers, and what permissioned data on the protocol might unlock.
This episode was released the same day Bluesky added Standard.site to the core app as a new avenue for discovery.
The archive for this episode, including a generated transcript, is available at https://atproto.com/off-protocol/do-this-together-standard-site.
Off Protocol is a production of the Bluesky developer relations team. For more about AT Protocol and an archive of this show, head to atproto.com.
Our theme music was composed and produced by Saleem Reshamwala.
Catch our livestream every other Wednesday at stream.place/atproto.com.
1 hr 5 min - The Puppy Problem
Jim and Alex are live with the first live episode under the new Off Protocol name. Protocol meetups are happening everywhere, Alex and Jim were both in Portland, the Ozone moderation tool has some new features, and Bluesky is considering an edit button. Plus a few of your questions.
The archive for this episode, including a generated transcript, is available at https://atproto.com/off-protocol/the-puppy-problem.
Off Protocol is a production of the Bluesky developer relations team. For more about AT Protocol and an archive of this show, head to atproto.com.
Our theme music was composed and produced by Saleem Reshamwala.
Catch our livestream every other Wednesday at stream.place/atproto.com.
34 min - Why a New Protocol? The History and Future of AT Protocol
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The archive for this episode, including a generated transcript, is available at https://atproto.com/off-protocol/why-a-new-protocol-the-history-and-future-of-at-protocol.
Off Protocol is a production of the Bluesky developer relations team. For more about AT Protocol and an archive of this show, head to atproto.com.
Our theme music was composed and produced by Saleem Reshamwala.
Catch our livestream every other Wednesday at stream.place/atproto.com.
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