Anyone else building on atproto hit the 1000-blobs/day-per-IP limit on uploadBlob? It's shared across all your users if your backend proxies uploads, so a few bulk imports on @currents.is ate up the whole quota and blocked unrelated users from saving images
Aug 4, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Blooym/porxie
[Mirror] A correct and efficient ATProto blob proxy for secure content delivery.
blooym.dev/porxie
[MIRROR ONLY] A correct and efficient ATProto blob proxy for secure content delivery.
@essentialrandom.bsky.social's livestream on Streamplace
Day 4 of Reading the ATproto permissioned data spec (dramatic)
What is atproto?
What is atproto? atproto is two things: A protocol for creating open social networks An open social network atproto, the open social network Today the atproto network has 36+ million users and powers Bluesky and a handful of other apps. Almost all atproto data is public. Content like posts, likes, follows, and photos/videos are publicly accessible to any network participant in a permissionless way. As an example of how open the network is, here’s how easy it is to stream all public data on the network using a public atproto Relay like bsky.network:
Rashid Aziz: Extending ATproto for private data - ATProto Community
There are no instances in ATProto | Hacker News
I feel like you've (perhaps purposefully?) misinterpreted "instances" just to plug ATProto specifically at the expense of ActivityPub (and RSS, a bit). I think you lower yourself by doing this:
ATProto, POSSE, and Personal Sites
My little weekend experiment to bring micro updates to my personal site
@infra.coop (alpha) img cdn, optimization, transformations, edge caching for 30 days, 15 day revalidation, atproto-native, subscribes to firehose for account deletion to purge user blobs 192 imgs loaded, 156mb vs 19mb, 88% less data, 1.7x speed up (in this test) github.com/co-infra/co-infra-img
A lot of the devs on atproto on here seem to be like, why won't any users use my stuff well, bc a not inconsiderable amount of current atproto users on bluesky are artists and marginalized people and you have a fuckass chatgpt ghibli pfp. I cannot emphasize this enough, you are signaling you don't
An ATProto-aware blob proxy! What a sensational idea. github.com/Blooym/porxie
GitHub - Blooym/porxie: [Mirror] A correct and efficient ATProto blob proxy for secure content delivery.
github.com
Lyna
I'm now running a public instance of Porxie for anyone to use for within their application for evaluation purposes or as a replacement for Bluesky's CDN in the event of downtime or otherwise. 🦋 Bluesky CDN Compatible: porxie-bsky.dollware.net 🔗 General Purpose: porxie.dollware.net
one interesting future challenge with atproto to me is that you can deploy an atmosphere app and its kind of 0 maintenance if the underlying network doesnt change dramatically, your marginal costs become 0. which means users have no real reason to pay you unless you keep adding stuff?
Hey @dholms.at, do you have plans for blobs in spaces? We're chatting about it on @iame.li's stream. The proposal says blobs are uploaded to space host, right? That makes sense when the space host is a PDS because it has `com.atproto.repo.uploadBlob`, but not if the space host is something else.
