coming in pretty late, but wanted to give some feedback on this proposal. in short I like it a lot! it matches what we have been thinking architecturally: permissioned data is stored in the PDS, but separate from public repo; and syncs to appview which applies access control
Feb 19, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Permissioned data proposal discussion
This is a forum thread to collect feedback on the permissioned data protocol proposal! To clarify: this is still a proposal. I expect many changes along the way. Suggestions may also be submitted as issues/PRs. I had hoped to have an alpha version of the PDS alongside this proposal, however I didn’t quite get there yet. Hoping to have that in the next couple weeks. The previous thread was here: Early permissioned data proposal draft feedback Changes since then: Responded to a bunch of feed...
research.latha.org
A permissioned appview for research documents on AT Protocol. True data ownership with optional monetization.
Playing with Parlances - Permissioned Data & AT Protocol - AT-WayFinding
Community privacy is one of our top priorities at @transrights.northsky.social which isn't possible out of the box with any ATproto implementation today that doesn't just hide an entire PDS. We're developing in the open and so I've published a proposal on it, feedback as always is we
science.latha.org
A permissioned appview for scientific documents on AT Protocol. True data ownership with optional monetization.
Permissioned Data Diary 2: Buckets - Daniel's Leaflets
The second in a series of posts building up a solution to permissioned data on atproto. We introduce buckets: a new protocol primitive for creating a shared social context.
Wildland (@WildlandIO) on X
An open protocol for data management that allows users to have sole ownership of their data. Join us! https://t.co/AqwplMcG9u Developed by @GolemFoundation
Permissioned Data Diary 7: Off the Record - Daniel's Leaflets
In which we put records in a repo, sign them, and sync them (but not quite the way you think).
Permissioned Data Diary 1: To Encrypt or Not to Encrypt - Daniel's Leaflets
The first in a series of posts about major design decisions along the way to a permissioned data protocol for atproto.
here it is folks! lots of details to still nail down, but this is roughly where our heads are at for the design of a permissioned data protocol give it a read and let me know your thoughts!
Permissioned Data Diary 4: The Big Picture
dholms.leaflet.pubhere it is folks! lots of details to still nail down, but this is roughly where our heads are at for the design of a permissioned data protocol give it a read and let me know your thoughts!
Permissioned Data Diary 4: The Big Picture
dholms.leaflet.pubnew data diary! this is the most in the weeds yet, all revolving around our proposed URI structure for permissioned data. turns out you can figure out a lot about a protocol from the uri! as always, let me know what you think :)
Permissioned Data Diary 5: What’s in a Name?
dholms.leaflet.pubas a little pre-show surprise, here's an early draft of the permissioned data proposal! github.com/bluesky-social/proposals/pull…
Permissioned data by dholms · Pull Request #94 · bluesky-social/proposals
github.com
AT Protocol Developers
Don't forget, @dholms.at is joining us for the livestream TOMORROW for a permissioned data AMA.
Once again looking at bring your own user-data storage options (for my malleable software experiment this time). What do people think are some user friendly options that don't require any OAuth apps to be created on the server? ie. no Dropbox, Google Drive, One Drive & other services like that.
as a little pre-show surprise, here's an early draft of the permissioned data proposal! github.com/bluesky-social/proposals/pull…
Permissioned data by dholms · Pull Request #94 · bluesky-social/proposals
github.comAT Protocol Developers
Don't forget, @dholms.at is joining us for the livestream TOMORROW for a permissioned data AMA.
new data diary! (and i think final in the main series) this gets into the permissioned repository itself. how it's structured, signed & synced. give it a read & as always, lmk your thoughts!
Permissioned Data Diary 7: Off the Record
dholms.leaflet.pub
