Fourth shape in the atproto permissioned-data series: forums. The Gem City Forum mixes public and private categories, moderates with wrapper records instead of labels, and stays open to any app view its members trust.
Permissioned Data Shapes: Forums
ngerakines.leaflet.pubJul 20, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Permissioned Data Shapes: Forums - Nick's Blog
A forum with public categories, private categories, and one set of record shapes across both: members own their posts, the forum owns the submission wrappers that admit them into categories, and moderators deactivate into tombstones instead of deleting.
Permissioned Data Shapes: Community-Moderated Content - Nick's Blog
A community can own spaces the way a person does: a club's members post to each other under a dedicated community DID, with a feed space for content, a moderation space for notes, a labels space for filtering, and a single app view as the only window into any of it.
Permissioned Data Diary 5: What’s in a Name? - Daniel's Leaflets
In this permissioned data diary, we dive deep into the URI structure for permissioned data on atproto and use it to motivate a bunch of the larger design.
Permissioned Data Diary 5: What’s in a Name? - Daniel's Leaflets
In this permissioned data diary, we dive deep into the URI structure for permissioned data on atproto and use it to motivate a bunch of the larger design.
AT-Communities #1: the Concierge, the Vault, and the Fuck-ass Astro Website – Essential Randomness
In which I try to make sense of communities on ATproto.
@essentialrandom.bsky.social's livestream on Streamplace
Day 4 of Reading the ATproto permissioned data spec (dramatic)
Evaluating permissioned spaces for community contexts - meri's missives
A look at Bluesky's proposed approach to private data on ATProto
The Community Manager Pattern - Nick's Blog
This post looks more closely at Brittany Ellich's work on representing groups in ATProtocol. It builds on earlier conversations and explores how these ideas might work in practice.
AT Namespaces for Community Spaces
How should public community-controlled spaces be represented in atproto?
Barazo Forum
Your identity. Your communities. Everywhere. Based on ATProtocol - Barazo Forum
Modeling communities on permissioned data - Daniel's Leaflets
Arguing against "universal spaces" and raising a couple questions that come up as a result.
Third shape in the atproto permissioned-data series: a Pokémon Go club with its own DID. Ordinary Bluesky posts in a members-only space, moderation notes and labels inside the same boundary, and one allowlisted app view as the only window in.
Permissioned Data Shapes: Community-Moderated Content
ngerakines.leaflet.pub@dholms.at motivated me to make a follow up post on Stratos, @transrights.northsky.social approach to permission data on ATproto! This one is a bit of a brief technical overview and as a nice bonus, I've made the code base public.
Stratos: Lets get Technical
chipnick.comPrivate Social Networks on atproto
Building toward something more like Facebook on atproto (not Facebook Groups, not Marketplace, just *private* content from people you follow.
Stratos
Permissioned Data Diary 3: Your Bucket, My Data - Daniel's Leaflets
Permissioned Data Diary 2: Buckets - Daniel's Leaflets
Spaces as Layers - Nick's Blog
