







Ocaps as a permissions mechanism on ATProto
Capability Chains vs UCAN · by holobrine.bsky.social
Five ways in which ATProto capability chains offer improvements over UCAN
atproto made simple: granular permissions - underreacted
atproto made simple: granular permissions - underreacted
Early Permission Sets · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #4437
Progress is coming along on "Permission Sets", as part of the atproto OAuth and permission system. As with other parts of the protocol, seeing how this functionality gets implemented for ...
Capability Trees: A Protocol-Level Extension of Object Capabilities, Draft 4
This draft incorporates feedback from Brooklyn Zelenka (@expede.wtf) and Daniel Holmgren (@dholms.at), and developments in the ATProto Private Data Working Group. Previous drafts remain available for transparency.
Capability Trees: A Protocol-Level Extension of Object Capabilities, Draft 3
This draft incorporates feedback from Brooklyn Zelenka (@expede.wtf), Daniel Holmgren (@dholms.at), and Zicklag (@zicklag.dev), and addresses questions raised in the ATProto Private Data Working Group. Draft 2 remains available for transparency.
@essentialrandom.bsky.social's livestream on Streamplace
Day 4 of Reading the ATproto permissioned data spec (dramatic)

Some of us in the ActivityPub world feel jealous of AtProto’s success (like me). But more decentralization is a win for everyone. With Bridgy from @anew.social connecting protocols, this isn’t competition, it’s momentum. We’re stronger together, so let’s build the social web humanity deserves 🚀
@dholms.at motivated me to make a follow up post on Stratos, @transrights.northsky.social approach to permission data on ATproto! This one is a bit of a brief technical overview and as a nice bonus, I've made the code base public.
Stratos: Lets get Technical
chipnick.com#ATProto is giving Major Evolutionary Transition vibes: "(1) a new form of cooperation with almost total interdependence among individuals ... that creates a new functional entity, and (2) a ... new form of communication to support this cooperation." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Major_Transitions_in…
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ATProto is a post-app protocol trapped in a world of apps. I can feel it all around the edges of the network.
atproto is actually a massive socioeconomic experiment in which we test the hypothesis "contributors to the common good who deserve success should be able to find it" and initial results are looking good
Devin Gaffney
Excited to announce that the Graze team is joining @flipboard.com! We're thrilled to be working with such a stellar team continuing to build the next era of the attention economy. Read more below:

A conceptual model of ATProto and ActivityPub
ATProto ideas
Wesley Finck (@wesleyfinck.org)

Copyright and DMCA Best Practices for Fediverse Operators

The Shape of Apps to Come, Devin Ivy, ATmosphereConf Seattle 2025
FediForum Talk: Atproto: A Technical Introduction