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arXiv:2402.03239 (cs)
[Submitted on 5 Feb 2024]

Title:Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable Decentralized Social Media

Authors:Martin Kleppmann, Paul Frazee, Jake Gold, Jay Graber, Daniel
Holmgren, Devin Ivy, Jeromy Johnson, Bryan Newbold, Jaz Volpert
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    Abstract:Bluesky is a new social network built upon the AT
    Protocol, a decentralized foundation for public social media. It
    was launched in private beta in February 2023, and has grown to
    over 3 million registered users in the following year. In this
    paper we introduce the architecture of Bluesky and the AT
    Protocol, which is inspired by the web itself, but modernized to
    include streams of real-time updates and cryptographic
    authentication. We explain how the technical design of Bluesky is
    informed by our goals: to enable decentralization by having
    multiple interoperable providers for every part of the system; to
    make it easy for users to switch providers; to give users agency
    over the content they see; and to provide a simple user
    experience that does not burden users with complexity arising
    from the system's decentralized nature. The system's openness
    allows anybody to contribute to content moderation and community
    management, and we invite the research community to use Bluesky
    as a dataset and testing ground for new approaches in social
    media moderation.

Subjects: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC);
          Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
Cite as:  arXiv:2402.03239 [cs.DC]
          (or arXiv:2402.03239v1 [cs.DC] for this version)
          https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2402.03239
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From: Martin Kleppmann [view email]
[v1] Mon, 5 Feb 2024 17:55:51 UTC (2,032 KB)
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