Bluesky + RSS resources

30 Sep, 2025

Bluesky seems particularly well-suited for integration with RSS and/or self-owned consumption of the content of internet friends, without delegating curation to an opaque and possibly malignant algorithmic feed.

Every profile gets an RSS feed by default, although this may not work so well in practice, as

• profiles tend to be noisy, and social media conversations come with context that gets lost in RSS

• RSS operates on a polling model, while social posts (contra "articles") are expected to be push, fresh, notified, shorter half-life, with social cred and bilateral dopamine for reacting first

Resources

• Statusphere is the Hello, world or CRUD TODO app example for atproto's PDS

• WhiteWind (more mature) and Leaflet (newer, with more hype) are blogging platforms built on ATProto

• two personal blog examples where data is stored in PDS, served dually to WhiteWind and their own front-end [Ewan] and [Hayden]

• glorified PoC of Using Bluesky posts as blog comments

And this is not really relevant, I just thought it was fun and lavender:

• Hosting an AT Protocol PDS without containerization | A simple setup guide for a PDS without requiring Docker or Caddy wherein she casually mentions having her own TypeScript DSL for generating nginx configs

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