Introducing Atproto Spaces

Presenter: Daniel Holmgren (@dholms.at)

Notes from the invited talk in the main space.

Links:

• https://atproto.com/blog/atproto-spaces-alpha - Announcement
• https://github.com/bluesky-social/proposals/tree/main/0016-permissioned-data - Spec livedoc
• https://dholms.leaflet.pub/3mu3p3ldwrc26 - Alpha recap from dholms

Notes

• atproto apps mentioned

  • https://bulletin.my/ - spaces demo

  • https://rpg.actor - avatars for atmosphere

  • https://anisota.net/ - alt atproto browser with rpg overtones

  • https://blento.app/ - personal websites

• Spaces are “Mini atprotos”

  • Account migration

  • app development

  • moderation

  • cheap to create

  • We already answered most of these hard questions

• Spaces use LtHash rather than Merkle Search Tree

• space uris use at://did:ex:alice/space as a literal

• space types

  • e.g. forum

• opensocial.group

  • working group specifying “group” semantics

  • https://tangled.org/opensocial.group/proposal

• Timeline

  • Discussion in https://discourse.atmosphere.community/

  • Hoping for beta launch in late Nov

• Resources

  • Get an invite code to the alpha PDS: https://bsky.network/account

  • Or run it yourself: ghcr.io/bluesky-social/atproto:pds-spaces-alpha

  • Login to bulletin (sample app): https://bulletin.my/

  • Read the current proposal: https://github.com/bluesky-social/proposals/tree/main/0016-permissioned-data

  • Read my permissioned data diary: https://dholms.leaflet.pub/

  • Specifically “Reintroducing Spaces”: https://dholms.leaflet.pub/3mu3p3ldwrc26