Hey folks, we just launched the atproto spaces alpha. Check out the blog post for more details! Over the following weeks, we’ll be iterating on the specification and the implementation. In all likelihood, this will involve breaking changes to the PDS distribution, the Bluesky-hosted alpha PDS, and the alpha SDKs. To minimize disruption, we’ll plan to do releases on Thursdays (barring something critical that requires more immediate attention). When we do a release, We’ll make a post to this thr...
Atproto spaces alpha updates
Okay as promised, we just cut another spaces alpha releast today! This includes the credential & sync changes that I listed above plus a small API field rename in listSpaces and simplespace.createSpace. There are several breaking changes, and I expect this to be a more disruptive rollout than the last one. The rollout will update the hosted psaces alpha PDS, the Docker image at ghcr.io/bluesky-social/atproto:pds-spaces-alpha and the relevant npm packages. For folks running their own PDS, this r...
Atproto spaces alpha updates
As promised, we just released another update to the spaces alpha today! This is a smaller release than last week. We have a few new features & protocol mechanisms (including account migration!). The meat of it is a refactor of simplespaces. This is backwards-incompatible and will require updating any of your apps that use simplespaces! Like last time, we’ve put together a prompt that you can give your coding agent to handle the migration. To summarize the changes: Space policies: we totally...
Atproto spaces alpha updates
As promised, we just released another update to the spaces alpha today! This is a smaller release than last week. We have a few new features & protocol mechanisms (including account migration!). The meat of it is a refactor of simplespaces. This is backwards-incompatible and will require updating any of your apps that use simplespaces! Like last time, we’ve put together a prompt that you can give your coding agent to handle the migration. To summarize the changes: Space policies: we totally...
The Atproto Spaces Alpha is Live - AT Protocol
Atproto Spaces, formerly known as “the permissioned data protocol,” is a new extension to atproto that enables non-public data. The alpha is now officially open. Here’s how to develop with it and what to expect as we work towards the full release.
The Atproto Spaces Alpha is Live - AT Protocol
Atproto Spaces, formerly known as “the permissioned data protocol,” is a new extension to atproto that enables non-public data. The alpha is now officially open. Here’s how to develop with it and what to expect as we work towards the full release.
The Atproto Spaces Alpha is Live - AT Protocol
Atproto Spaces, formerly known as “the permissioned data protocol,” is a new extension to atproto that enables non-public data. The alpha is now officially open. Here’s how to develop with it and what to expect as we work towards the full release.
PDS operator guide — atproto-crates
Operating atproto-pds: production status, endpoint surface, storage profiles, build flags, the full environment variable reference, and the deployment modes that are deliberately not wired up.
Just published a repo that's doing nightly builds for several spaces-enabled PDSes. It's mostly for @happyview.dev testing, but I figured some others may get some use out of it as well. Lemme know if there are any other PDS implementation I should add! #atproto
GitHub - happyproto/pds-test
github.comThe week-end is over so I'm pressing ⏸️ on my custom PDS project for now. Here's part 2 of my dev journal. I've learned a lot already and so far I feel like it might actually be worth finishing. It's really cool to get a more intimate understanding of ATProtocol and it's implementation.
How to Make a PDS - Part 2 - Zicklag's Leaflets
zicklag.leaflet.pubThe most significant extension to the protocol since launch—atproto spaces—is now officially alpha software you can start testing with. Here's more about the goals and how to start testing. atproto.com/blog/atproto-spaces-alpha
The Atproto Spaces Alpha is Live
atproto.comJuly 2026 update for the atproto implementations tables. ➡️ github.com/threddyrex/atproto-links I refreshed the PDS and AppView data, and added a new table for Relays. There are 23 PDSs, 4 AppViews, and 5 Relays.
threddy 🦖
May 2026 update for the atproto PDS implementations table. There are 21 projects being tracked, and 12 of those were updated in the past month. ➡️ github.com/threddyrex/atproto-links
Did a little project this weekend to get caught up with #ATProto dev. Wrote a custom lexicon `com.chrisvanderloo.project`, wrote and published an Astro loader, and loaded my projects section on chrisvanderloo.com directly from my PDS. Package here: github.com/chrisvander/at-astro-loader
GitHub - chrisvander/at-astro-loader: An Astro loader for ATProto data.
github.comAtproto Spaces (buckets, we hardly knew ye) have moved from a proposal to real live working — AND VERY MUCH ALPHA DO NOT USE THIS IN PRODUCTION — code. We even set up a working PDS for y'all to use, head over to bsky.network/account to get going
AT Protocol Developers
The most significant extension to the protocol since launch—atproto spaces—is now officially alpha software you can start testing with. Here's more about the goals and how to start testing. atproto.com/blog/atproto-spaces-alpha
