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By Daniel Holmgren, head of protocol at  Bluesky PBC.

AT Protocol (atproto) is the open protocol powering Bluesky and the emerging Atmosphere. This talk gives a high-level overview of atproto's approach to decentralized networking, including the data model, identity, the firehose, the lexicon schema system, and how these pieces work together to facilitate large-scale open social applications.

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FediForum Talk: Atproto: A Technical Introduction