[blackqueeriroh]

You guys are really confused about what atproto has to do with Bluesky and how much of the protocol is developed by or managed through Bluesky.

It really seems you all think the only company or community doing anything on atproto is Bluesky, when that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Have you even paid attention to what’s happening lately?

[inigyou]

Well the whole protocol relies on a "PLC server". There can only be one and guess who owns it.

[verdverm]

I think a more potent example is who controls the source for the spec and official implementations. This is a notable lack of community governance around this part. In this sense, Bluesky can and does change things at will. I have experienced breaking changes from their devs changing how things work and merging their own PRs in a matter of minutes, while not using versions. (indigo)

When it comes to private/permissioned data, Bluesky people have decided the shape it will take while not participating in the conversation until they shared their already decided upon design. They are letting the community give feedback, but the community never was able to participate in the design phase.

[whyrusleeping]

Who owns it?

[inigyou]

Blue Sky. Jack Dorsey.

[whyrusleeping]

Is it?

https://docs.bsky.app/blog/plc-directory-org