atproto tech news - ATmosphere Report 132

Small note beforehand: If you've followed me before, you likely know that I write a weekly ATmosphere Report with all the news about Bluesky and the ATmosphere every week, over at connectedplaces.online. These weeks I'm switching it up a little, by splitting the report up into smaller parts and publishing them separately. The entire ATmosphere Report will still be published (and emailed) regularly as well, and this posts will be made more accessible on my own website soon.

This edition contains the atproto tech news and links of the last two weeks. It focuses on the tech and protocol side of the network, and thus assumes some familiarity with what's going on in the network.

Bluesky PBC is setting the first step in having atproto potentially become an IETF standard. This November in Montreal they will hold a Birds of a Feather meeting at the IETF conference. "The purpose of a BOF is to make sure that a good charter with good milestones can be created, that there are enough people willing to do the work needed in order to create standards, and that any standards would get adoption." This is a first step for atproto towards becoming an official IETF standard:

Bluesky has enabled the 'show more/show less' buttons on their Discover feed to be used by custom feeds as well. The update came from independent developer Grace Kind, and I think her response shows the power of open networks: