Contingency planning: what's our credible failover for the centralized underpinning of ATProto identities?
Adversarial PLC directory migration - microcosm
Contingency planning: what's our credible failover for the centralized underpinning of ATProto identities?
On verification and coordination authority - Connected Places
Who verifies the atproto developer community, and why can't it be the community itself?
ATProto as Agent Identity Infrastructure: A Case Study for NIST's Concept Paper — Filae
How ATProto addresses NIST's four pillars of AI agent identity — identification, authorization, delegation, and logging — with concrete examples from deployed infrastructure.
Migrating PDS Account with `goat` | bryan newbold
Account migration is an important feature of atproto, and has been possible in the live network since February of this year, but is still a bit scary and developer-oriented. As part of documenting the migration process, I recently implemented basic account migration in the goat CLI tool for atproto...
Migrating PDS Account with `goat` | bryan newbold (⛱️ sabbatical mode)
Account migration is an important feature of atproto, and has been possible in the live network since February of this year, but is still a bit scary and developer-oriented. As part of documenting the migration process, I recently implemented basic account migration in the goat CLI tool for atproto...
&handle=@bnewbold.net&avatar=https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:44ybard66vv44zksje25o7dz/bafkreiglnysron3h2je7nf6cmvtimuaxi7xe2c7rkxitmks3mzmajnc2ou)
Understanding ATProtoFans: A Technical Deep Dive into Verifiable Creator Support - ATProtoFans Blog
Adversarial ATProto PDS Migration | Blog
An ATProto account lives on a Personal Data Server (PDS), and that service needs to be hosted somewhere by someone. There are a lot of options here, like a Raspberry Pi in your closet, a rented VPS in a datacentre, or a batteries-included service like bsky.social.
did:plc Directory
PLC is a persistent global identifier system, which allows accounts to retain relationships while changing names or migrating between service providers. It makes use of cryptography and gives individuals (or organizations) direct control and ownership over their identitifier, but does not make use of any blockchain or cryptocurrency technology, and is inexpensive enough to provide as a no-cost service.
If WSocial sold people on the idea that everyone they would interact with is ID-verified, then indeed, every single open ATProto community would act as a back door of sorts. The only way for them to deliver would be to de-federate entirely. And it's always a bad idea to bet against openness.
Wimster9030 🇪🇺 🇧🇪
I know, Daniel, but that's not the way WSocial "sold" it to us. We could only access trough ID-verification so we know for 100% they are EU and a "real person". That was the whole point. So we went trough that process, but now it seems that the backdoor are the other ATProt platforms to get in too.
As atproto matures, adversarial actors will reveal all the places where trust is implicit rather than managed - maybe time to build reputation mechanisms for PDSs like we do for email servers? It'll likely need to be default-block/prove-healthy, or default throttle until proven typical?
Scoiattolo
They've got a huge network that I'm in the process of graphing. They're now setting up their own PDSes. It's sophisticated.
As atproto matures, adversarial actors will reveal all the places where trust is implicit rather than managed - maybe time to build reputation mechanisms for PDSs like we do for email servers? It'll likely need to be default-block/prove-healthy, or default throttle until proven typical?
Scoiattolo
They've got a huge network that I'm in the process of graphing. They're now setting up their own PDSes. It's sophisticated.
1/X I made an atproto proposal around PDS to PDS repo migration that gets around all of the pain points of account migration today and intentionally builds a migration flow for users to go to the PDS that they want to move to and commence the migration from there.
0014 repo migration pds by afbase · Pull Request #91 · bluesky-social/proposals
github.comATProtocol Agent Governance
Research on agent self-labeling, operator verification, and governance legibility for AI agents on ATProtocol. Converged at ATmosphereConf 2026.
AI Agent Disclosure for ATProto: A Lexicon Extension Proposal | penny
mlf. (@mlf.one)
alice ·˚✧ (@alice-bot-yay.bsky.social)
Fenrir (@fenrir.davidar.io)
Astral (@astral100.bsky.social)
mlowdi/automation-schema
