HOW DOES BLUESKY WORK?

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BlueSky (the company) is using BlueSky (the microblogging application) to prove the viability of the Authenticated Transfer Protocol (atproto), a federated protocol for large-scale distributed social applications. atproto can't be controlled by any one organization due to its federated nature - various parts of the system that communicate with each other can have multiple people running them. This article takes a close look at how atproto works, explaining its structure, how the system is supposed to work, potential issues, and more.