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Can atproto scale down?

by icy on 2/16/25, 11:37 AM with 3 comments

• by evbogue on 2/17/25, 6:45 AM

  For context, all of the Bluesky app feed renderer is run off a centralized index at the moment. This article is about building your own backlink index off of Bluesky's "Jetstream" translation layer via their ATProtocol firehose.

  The downsides are that the Jetstream strips all cryptography from Bluesky data, but Bluesky allows no one to hold their own keypairs so it's arguable whether that matters much at all.