What is atproto? atproto is two things: A protocol for creating open social networks An open social network atproto, the open social network Today the atproto network has 36+ million users and powers Bluesky and a handful of other apps. Almost all atproto data is public. Content like posts, likes, follows, and photos/videos are publicly accessible to any network participant in a permissionless way. As an example of how open the network is, here’s how easy it is to stream all public data on ...| Posts on Jake Gold
What is Bluesky? Bluesky is three things. Bluesky the social app Available on Apple’s App Store, Google Play, and the web Bluesky the atproto app Operating within the app.bsky.* atproto namespace Bluesky Social, PBC The startup company originally funded by Twitter (later by investors) that created and supports atproto.| Jake Gold
In the early 2000s, we used to write a lot of CGI programs. This was the primary way to make websites dynamic at the time. These CGI programs were usually written in Perl, but sometimes in C to increase performance. The CGI mechanism is conceptually simple but powerful. When the web server receives an incoming request handled by a CGI script (e.g. GET /~jakegold/cgi-bin/guestbook.cgi), it: Sets up environment variables containing request metadata (HTTP headers, query parameters, request metho...| Jake Gold