In 2019 Twitter asked a team of crypto and p2p devs to design a protocol for the next generation of permissionless social media. The protocol escaped Twitter and now drives Bluesky, the fast-growing social media site. It can do a lot more.

This talk will cover:
- The principles underlying the design of atproto
- Why those principles matter
- Bluesky and the unbundling of feeds, blocklists, curation and tagging
- How the protocol works (Dag-cbor, Merkle Search Trees, DID:PLC)
- How to make bots to make stuff happen on-chain