over time as business models and extraction points move up and down the stack. i think em's answer might be the most realistic one in 2026-- the entirety the ATP userbase mandatorily moderated by (or acc to the standards of) bsky that thinks of it all as "bsky apps" is on the bsky platform, i think.
Feb 22, 2026 at 6:36 AM
What's Next at Bluesky - Bluesky
As we head into 2026, we're entering a new phase for the Bluesky app. Last year was about scaling through rapid growth and getting the fundamentals in place. This year is about leaning into what's working and investing more intentionally in the things that make Bluesky different.
2025 Transparency Report Overview - Bluesky
In 2025, as Bluesky grew from 25 million to 41 million users, we improved the trust and safety infrastructure to better enable our mission. Here's what that looks like in plain language.
The Bluesky ecosystem has the juice (ATProto for normies) - Nate Spilman
An explanation for people who don't care about software protocols Bluesky is built on top of a new software protocol - https://atproto.com/ - for building distr...
Bluesky & Open Social Media Tech
The Bluesky ecosystem has the juice (ATProto for normies) - Pioneer
An explanation for people who don't care about software protocolsBluesky is built on top of a new software protocol - https://atproto.com/ - for building dis...
When @bsky.app pulls this kind of crap often, whilst also expecting the community to do the heavy-lifting in actually convincing people to try out the AT Protocol... it's really difficult to feel hopeful about the future of Bluesky and its constituents. I imagine many agree with this stance.
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂
Bluesky’s statement deriding Threads users as “guinea pigs” is not representative of Blacksky Algorithms, the atproto ecosystem or the open social web more broadly. Communities form around communication networks. And communities should never be trolled for whatever tool helps them find each other.
In 2026, @bsky.app is focused on what’s next for open social: bringing together users for conversations around live events, creator and platform monetization, and private state, giving users truly private data while preserving ownership and portability at the protocol level.
The sooner the Atmosphere becomes less Bluesky-centric, the better for everyone, include Bluesky PBC. It's fantastic to have bsky as a launching pad, but the Atmosphere's potential is so so much bigger. Let this year be the year we have big succesful apps where the bsky association is incidental.
Bluesky needs its own complete YC atproto stack - accelerator, seed funding, founder network, investor pipeline, mentorship, demo days, startup discovery ATproto-native, so the ecosystem becomes the distribution, reputation, intelligence, and funding layer for the next generation of open social web
Bluesky needs its own complete YC atproto stack - accelerator, seed funding, founder network, investor pipeline, mentorship, demo days, startup discovery ATproto-native, so the ecosystem becomes the distribution, reputation, intelligence, and funding layer for the next generation of open social web
I think bsky should be funding more PLC related community projects. It should be possible to spin up a PLC mirror and download all of it at line rate. Right now, the /export endpoint is usable, but unnecessarily slow. Archived bulk op exports stored in object storage would help but aren’t cheap.
Bluesky is scared to commit to making a universal app that works with any atproto lexicon. I am not. And am pretty committed to our social-app fork being able to work with more and more content types (short video, fintech, blogs, music, etc.) Acorn customers get this for their communities too.
Richard Ferro, MD MSc
Also, will any platforms using acorn have access to these integrations as well?
I'm building on atproto because I think that a single social network has essentially no shot of dethroning the current tech monopolies. But an open ecosystem of interoperating apps is so infinitely more interesting than legacy social that it seems almost inevitable it will win
Ronen Tamari
Can everyone building on atproto please answer this question? 😇
As @ricardo.bsky.social might put it, the infrastructure behind the Bluesky app is becoming more like a product (as opposed to a project). A natural evolution would be to charge Atmosphere app developers who piggyback on it and would like to have standard commercial SLAs and technical support.
AT Protocol Developers
Today we’re launching Bluesky Protocol Services, a new brand and website for the infrastructure Bluesky operates. And Jetstream v2, the best way for developers to use atproto at scale, now with network replay. atproto.com/blog/introducing-bluesky-prot…
SO cool to see features on our @semble.so roadmap (auto sync from bsky to Semble) getting covered by ecosystem development. Ecosystems are rising tides that lift all apps and this is just the tip of the iceberg of their potential github.com/cosmik-network/semble/issues/…
Bluesky integration: auto-sync links from your bsky posts (exclude historical posts) · Issue #110 · cosmik-network/semble
github.com
bubba says: try Solenoid!
oh yeah. this is working. with @airglow.run I now have my likes with links auto bookmarked on @semble.so , and then @treethought.xyz 's beta Atmosphere Obsidian plugin pulls them into an easily accessible list - I no longer need to paste links into one dump file. Excellent.
