If you ever wanted to know how big the Bluesky/atproto network is (records only, no blobs/videos/etc), there is a new, super useful tool in town: -> jetstream.us-east.bsky.network/status?tab=segments ~ 1.7 TB compressed / 8 TB uncompressed
Aug 14, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Best Bluesky Tools & Feeds Directory | Discover and Use Free Tools at BskyInfo
Explore the best Bluesky tools to check blocks, track stats, browse curated feeds, and more. BskyInfo is your all-in-one directory to enhance your Bluesky experience with free and trusted tools.
ATproto Command Center — Live Bluesky Firehose Dashboard
Real-time event velocity, hot collections, active accounts, and content signals — streamed from Jetstream and computed entirely in your browser.
Bluesky PDS | brad.quest
Bluesky is built on the open ATProto “atmosphere” network. The Personal Data Server is the network unit that serves as a repository for user data, identity, and media on the network.
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About AT Protocol and Bluesky - Stuff Rob Wrote
I've been interested in atproto (the protocol that Bluesky, Blacksky, and many other applications - including pckt, where this blog is hosted! - run on) for abo...
Discover Bluesky Channels
This isn’t Reddit or a forum. Each channel has its own instance with its feeds and lists, placing you inside the channel as you stream posts from Bluesky.
Bluesky now has more than 10M users | TechCrunch
Social network Bluesky said Monday that it now has more than 10 million users. This is largely thanks to the rapid growth of the network in the past few
Bluvy Tube — Discover videos on Bluesky & AT Protocol — Bluvy Tube
Bluvy Tube indexes and surfaces videos published on the AT Protocol decentralized network (Bluesky). Discover creators, watch videos, and explore video content from the ATmosphere.
Notes on Running a Full-Network atproto Relay (July 2024) | bryan newbold
Note: See updated post from May 2025 describing a newer, cheaper, easier to run relay implementation! These are some informal notes on setting up a full-network atproto Relay, using the bigsky relay software developed by Bluesky. This is the same software we run ourselves at https://bsky.network. T...
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Paul Frazee — Solving for scale in open networks
Stream: A Bluesky Video Client like YouTube
Discover and stream videos from Bluesky. Add feeds, lists, or profiles to watch media and view the full discussion threads around each video post.
full-network space efficiency update: bad news: event though 84% of all repos are stale (no activity in 30 days), stale repos only make up 20% of the data in the network. moving them to cheap storage doesn't buy much. good news: the data in network is small?? like sub-1TB, minimal magic needed
An unordered / non-exhaustive list of things that helped scale Bluesky's infra efficiently: + Exiting the cloud (colocation) + HAProxy w/many Node backends + Go w/clever code + ScyllaDB + SQLite w/per user databases + Redis w/many instances + AMD servers w/many cores + Purchasing bandwidth directly
It's 100mb now in the reference PDS installer: github.com/bluesky-social/pds/blob/main/… Though each PDS may be configured with different limits, and I'm not sure if the actual limit is advertised anywhere.
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…
Introducing Bluesky Protocol Services
atproto.com
