A Bad Idea Until You Think About It

Paul Frazee, Bluesky's CTO, and Daniel Holmgren, the Head of Protocol at Bluesky, each published a blog post within minutes of each other last week exploring some of the big ideas of the protocol. It was a classic blog-off, so we decided to settle it on the livestream this week, after the regular news roundup. Links & Resources News roundup Off Protocol on VoxPort "The atproto Spaces Alpha is Live" Sign up for the atproto-spaces enabled PDS The atproto NYC Community Day recap Talks from atproto NYC available on Streamplace Troposphere Sri's IRL atproto apps from atproto NYC Sam Goto's FedCM demo "Working to Decentralize FedCM" Bluesky's proposed notifications redesign Ten-minute videos on Bluesky A new Bluesky setting to hide your posts from Discover Leaflet's paid memberships pilot Graze joins Flipboard Roomy teams up with Modal Germ launches voice notes Tim Disney's vision for Skyreader Keith Kurson's atmoBB Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider's AMA on Off Protocol Chicago Public Media building on atproto with Roundabout All the latest meetups on Atmosphere Community The blog-off Paul Frazee, "SELECT * FROM internet.blogposts" Daniel Holmgren, "Reintroducing Spaces" An early thread from Paul explaining some of the atproto fundamentals "Solving for scale in open networks" Paul's talk at this year's Local-First Conf Listen and read more at atproto.com/off-protocol/2026-09-04-a-bad-idea Off Protocol is a production of the Bluesky developer relations team. For more about AT Protocol and an archive of this show, head to atproto.com. Our theme music was composed and produced by Saleem Reshamwala. Catch our livestream every other Wednesday at stream.place/atproto.com.