Cuckoos can beget Offshoots — and that's a sensational feature of keeping lexicons open. @rude1.blacksky.team and @anirudh.fi just demonstrated how ATProto's app-layer credible exit is meant to work, socially and technically. numergent.com/2026-04/Cuckoo-begets-Offshoo…
Cuckoo begets Offshoot
numergent.comApr 30, 2026 at 3:47 PM
AI Agent Disclosure for ATProto: A Lexicon Extension Proposal | penny
AI Agent Disclosure for ATProto: A Lexicon Extension Proposal A proposed standard for machine-readable AI agent transparency on the AT Protocol Abstract As AI agents become increasingly present on ATProto networks like Bluesky, there's a growing need for standardized, machine-readable disclosure ...
atproto made simple: publishing lexicons - underreacted
atproto made simple: publishing lexicons - underreacted
i find some atproto documentation extremely confusing. the section about publishing lexicons is one of those parts that makes me want to tear my hair out. it…
Introducing The Pentaract: A Comprehensive Set of Video Game Lexicons for ATProto
Some of you already know that I’ve been working on-and-off on a lexicon for video games. I figured it would be a good idea to put the lexicon up for further discussion, and to make sure I’m headed down the right path with things. But why? Last year, the video games industry experienced a significant upheaval when radical groups leveraged moral panic to pressure payment processors, which in turn pressured games platforms to remove NSFW applications. This resulted in a lot of underrepresented dev...
ATProto explained for a slightly "technical" audience - Foxes
Lexicon Embeds Overview
ATProto’s inside out structure provides an opportunity for open, permissionless building on top of any component in the network, including its extensible data schema definition system, Lexicons. One of the opportunities this presents is users sharing their data and records with multiple apps. Those apps may be direct substitutions (different clients for microblogging say), or apps that use that data in a variety of ways, such as Popfeed an app which aggregates posts about a variety of media ty...
Two Types of Interoperability Without Sharing Lexicons - Wesley's notes
Sharing lexicons is not the only way to leverage atproto’s interoperability
Two Types of Interoperability Without Sharing Lexicons - Wesley's notes
Sharing lexicons is not the only way to leverage atproto’s interoperability
Standard.site: the Publishing Gateway
Another deep exploration into ATProto and implementing lexicons
New blog post: Signaling AI Preferences on ATProto. Introducing community.lexicon.preference.ai, a lexicon for granular AI data usage preferences with scoped overrides for specific entities and collections. #AI #atproto
Signaling AI Preferences on ATProto
ngerakines.leaflet.pubBluesky’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.
