Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable Decentralized Social Media | Proceedings of the ACM Conext-2024 Workshop on the Decentralization of the Internet

A 2024 paper from the Bluesky team where they "introduce the architecture of Bluesky and the AT Protocol, and explain how the technical design of Bluesky is informed by our goals:

• enable decentralization by having multiple interoperable providers for every part of the system;
• make it easy for users to switch providers;
• give users agency over the content they see;
• provide a simple user experience that does not burden users with complexity arising from the system's decentralized nature.
• allow anybody to contribute to content moderation and community management"

With an explicit invitation to researchers "to use Bluesky as a dataset and testing ground for new approaches in social media moderation".