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Daniel's permissioned data proposal just dropped!! This will be a major upgrade for atproto that enables private groups & communities. Really hope this technical design resonates with people so we can keep moving fast, but please do get your comments in

daniel holmgren 🫠@dholms.at

just in the nick of time! github.com/bluesky-soci...

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3/7/26, 12:59 am56 reposts272 likes

Hedge Queen Alice

@notyourdove.atproto.systems

3 July

....it enables whitelisting? ooh. better three and a half years late than never 😋

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦

@mackuba.eu

3 July

Whitelisting of what where? (Hi!)

denom.bsky.social

@denom.bsky.social

3 July

It’s here!

fuckface "squeaky" from:me

@skeet.best

3 July

Also allows private personal content, right? Because you can just have a private group of one?

LofiTurtle

@lofitur.tel

3 July

Yep, it will support that

fuckface "squeaky" from:me

@skeet.best

3 July

This is what I see becoming the real killer feature of Permissioned Data landing for AT: getting to store the entirety of any app's data on the user's PDS, and then you get user-to-user sharing built in effectively for free

Def

@orpach.neocities.org

3 July

I don't see anything that forbids that.

Walrus

@walrus.northsky.social

3 July

Yeah, in the proposal they say "Spaces scale from a single user's personal data (e.g. bookmarks) to communities of millions of users."

Joshua Hastings

@joshua.yakimapride.org

This is huge! 🥰

Private groups is the part I keep coming back to. A lot of people hold back from posting because the open network feels permanent and high-stakes — smaller permissioned spaces could make room for calmer community apps that just don't work in public. Reading through it now.