Publishing isn't posting — putting my blog on AT Protocol
I wired this blog into AT Protocol using the Standard.site lexicon. It does less than the name suggests, and the interesting part was deciding what not to send.
I thought if I published a blog entry to the Atmosphere, the whole ecosystem using AT Protocol including Bluesky, it would show up everywhere people are reading. Publishing a site.standard.document record does go out through the firehose to relays. Indexers subscribe to site.standard.document and pick up the record. This is how apps like Standard Reader fill their feeds. However, it won't show up in the Bluesky timeline since it only indexes app.bsky.* records. Hence, publishing is distribution without notification.
That turned into a decision about how much of the article to put in the record itself. What I sent, what I held back and why.
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