Bluesky Social PBC have given a grant to Emelia Smith, an Invited Expert with the FedID Working Group, to work on FedCM with the goal of making FedCM really work for the decentralized web.
Update #1: Getting started and keeping momentum - Decentralizing FedCM
At the start of March this year I started working on ensuring FedCM supported decentralized ecosystems, such as AT Protocol, funded by a grant from Bluesky S…
How Standards Are Made
Recently I received a large grant from Bluesky Social PBC to fund my work on FedCM for decentralized web. So whilst the response has been overwhelmingly positive, there's currently a tiny tiny percentage of people in my mentions on the fediverse right now that are accusing me of horrible
FediMod FIRES on building better and decentralised social media applications
Continuing our monthly interview series "Building a Free Internet of the Future", we talked to Emelia Smith, who is a software engineer. “Building a Free Internet of the Future" highlights the experiences and perspectives of individuals and communities supported by the NGI Zero (NGI0) grants, funded by the European Commission.
Bridgy Fed for the fediverse (@ap.brid.gy)
Bridgy Fed (https://fed.brid.gy/) bot user for the fediverse. To bridge your Bluesky account to the fediverse, follow this account. To ask a fediverse user to bridge their account, send their address (eg @user@instance) to this account in a chat message.…
Mathieu Lefebvre — Product Designer
For several months now, I have been passionate about decentralized social networks. A federated social network is a platform composed of independent servers that communicate with each other using common protocols.
FEP-1042: Peer to Peer Fediverse Identities
Hey folks, we at [Distributed Press](https://distributed.press) have been working on making a bridge between peer to peer or "dweb" protocols and ActivityPub implementations over the past year and wanted to solidify our approach so that others can interoperate. Here's is an initial draft expla...
Proposal: OAuth Scopes · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #3655
Note: a more complete proposal was published in July 2025: https://github.com/bluesky-social/proposals/tree/main/0011-auth-scopes We’re continuing work on rolling OAuth out to the atproto network. ...
Progress on Auth Scopes Implementation (August 2025) · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #4118
Since our last update on Auth Scopes, the Bluesky team has been hard at work adding support to our reference PDS implementation. Aspects of this work are starting to roll out in the production netw...
WAVE: A Decentralized Authorization Framework with Transitive Delegation | USENIX
Michael P Andersen, Sam Kumar, Moustafa AbdelBaky, Gabe Fierro, John Kolb, Hyung-Sin Kim, David E. Culler, and Raluca Ada Popa, University of California, Berkeley
Decentralization Trade Offs in AT Protocol and ActivityPub DWeb Camp 2026
Christine Lemmer Webber is lead author and co-editor of the W3C ActivityPub specification. Daniel Holmgren is Head of Protocol at Bluesky, working on the AT Protocol specification at the IETF. Join us for a discussion on decentralization trade-offs and other design decisions in the two protocols, and what that means for different architectures, structures, and even future points of convergence. Moderated by Boris Mann
Some good news: the team at @bsky.app just awarded Gifthood a $2,000 AT Protocol grant. Thank you, sincerely. It means a lot that the people building the open network believe in what we're trying to do to build stronger connections among neighbors.
Heeey, look, it's me! I'm super hyped to announce that @bsky.app have given me a grant to work on the standards for the Federated Credential Management API (or FedCM) to make them really work for all decentralized web applications.
AT Protocol Developers
We're so excited to support @thisismissem.social's work bringing FedCM to the open social web! atproto.com/blog/working-to-decentralize-…
We're so excited to support @thisismissem.social's work bringing FedCM to the open social web! atproto.com/blog/working-to-decentralize-…
Working to Decentralize FedCM - AT Protocol
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