I’ve been exploring the AT Protocol “atmosphere” that Bluesky runs on to get a better understanding of what people are doing with it. What I’ve found is a bunch of private data I’m not sure people know is public. Not only public, it’s easy to find.
To start my exploration I used two websites that catalog AT Protocol apps: atstore.fyi and atmosphereaccount.com. I’m a long time RSS user, so I got curious about feed readers first. I found this one called Skyreader and I noticed that their page on atstore.fyi contained reviews and mentions of the app by people who have used it. We’ll come back to this in a minute.
Something to know about Bluesky is that you can self-host what they call a personal data server or “PDS.” It’s where your data on Bluesky and other apps are stored, and it’s mostly public. Using a website like PDSls.dev you can explore it yourself. So if you wanted to see my data it’s here. I can’t control how or what you do with it, it just exists.
