Circles

AT CIRCLE - Home

AT CIRCLE is a webring system for personal sites leveraging ATProto. Connect with like-minded creators and build your community with Bluesky.

Skycle.app — Generate your friends Bluesky circle easily

Generate your circle with avatars of your friends Bluesky easily

Social Networking Utopia — Matt

In discussing the network topology of social networks — whether centralized like Facebook or federated like ActivityPub — I think the ult...

NorthStar Social: About Us

NorthStar Social is where your public and private social networks converge. The world's first decentralized local-first social network to keep you in control of your data. Your privacy is too precious to leave in the hands of corporations and billionaries who don’t have your best interests in mind. Privacy is built-in. Your public and personal social connections in one app.

Skircle - Bluesky Interaction Circles

Create Bluesky Interaction Circles with ease!

Cross-App Authentication on AT Protocol: How Roomy and OpenMeet Share Identity

The free, open-source alternative to Meetup. Create groups and events for your community — no fees, no ads, community-owned forever.

The Heart of Spritely: Distributed Objects and Capability Security

This paper is the second in a three-part series outlining Spritely's thinking and design. The first paper, Spritely: New Foundations for Networked Communities, explains the problems which face contemporary social network design. This paper details the core technical toolbox provided by Spritely Goblins and how it supplies the necessary features to feasibly build out Spritely's broader vision. The third paper in the series, Spritely for Secure Applications and Communities, ties the first two papers together by showing how the architecture for user-facing software fulfills the vision of the first paper and can be built on top of ideas from this paper.

Circling Back

Reflections on Sarafu, xDai, Gnosis, Circles UBI, Circles v2, and a shared movement toward community-governed commons.

Simplify sharing with built-in APIs and progressive enhancement

Instead of leaning into heavy social sharing widgets, you can create a truly user-friendly social sharing component that works for everyone, using built-in APIs and progressive enhancement.

NorthStar Social: People. Privacy. Period.

NorthStar Social is where your public and private social networks converge. The world's first decentralized local-first social network to keep you in control of your data. Your privacy is too precious to leave in the hands of corporations and billionaires who don’t have your best interests in mind. Privacy is built-in. Your public and personal social connections in one app.

Best Social Apps

Connect, share, and engage. Explore a variety of social apps to stay connected with friends and communities.

Social apps | at-store

Social-layer apps focused on posting, discovery, conversation, and relationship-building across the network.

An analysis of social network-based Sybil defenses | Request PDF

Request PDF | An analysis of social network-based Sybil defenses | Recently, there has been much excitement in the research community over using social networks to mitigate multiple identity, or Sybil, attacks. A... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

FR#157 – Social Software Distribution

Open social protocols are expanding beyond social media into the infrastructure developers use to build, distribute, and discover software. Three recent launches show what that looks like in practice.

Proposal: OAuth Scopes · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #3655

Note: a more complete proposal was published in July 2025: https://github.com/bluesky-social/proposals/tree/main/0011-auth-scopes We’re continuing work on rolling OAuth out to the atproto network. ...