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Nick's BlogAug 14, 2026

Permissioned Data: Space Access

Stepping outside the shapes series for a deep dive: how space configuration decides which people and which apps get credentials. Here be dragons.

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Nick's BlogJul 30, 2026

Permissioned Data Shapes: Notifications

A self-keyed space gives notifications a home you control: every app gets an append-only sink to write into, you pick the reader that turns them into pushes and emails, and allowing or revoking an app is an access control you already have.

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Nick's BlogJul 24, 2026

Permissioned Data Shapes: Feeds

Public feed generators drink from a firehose that permissioned data never enters, so a feed that includes space content has to become a syncer, keep a live model of who can see what, and serve a different skeleton to every viewer.

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Nick's BlogJul 20, 2026

Permissioned Data Shapes: Polls

A poll is a space, a ballot is an address, and read_self is the ballot screen: voters cast and change their own votes while no voter's client can read anyone else's.

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Nick's BlogJul 20, 2026

Permissioned Data Shapes: Forums

A forum with public categories, private categories, and one set of record shapes across both: members own their posts, the forum owns the submission wrappers that admit them into categories, and moderators deactivate into tombstones instead of deleting.

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Nick's BlogJul 19, 2026

Permissioned Data Shapes: Community-Moderated Content

A community can own spaces the way a person does: a club's members post to each other under a dedicated community DID, with a feed space for content, a moderation space for notes, a labels space for filtering, and a single app view as the only window into any of it.

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Nick's BlogJul 18, 2026

Permissioned Data Shapes: Private Events

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Nick's BlogJul 17, 2026

Permissioned Data Shapes: Self-Only Bookmarks

A self-only space is the smallest shape permissioned data can take: one authority, one member, one repo, and private bookmarks that share a record shape and a write path with public ones.

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Nick's BlogJun 24, 2026

Reading Proposal 0016: What atproto’s “Permissioned Data” Actually Does

Nick's BlogApr 13, 2026

Introducing attested.network: Proof of Payment for ATProtocol

attested.network is an open spec for decentralized proof of payments on ATProtocol, built on what we learned making atprotofans.com. It formalizes the three-party attestation model and opens it up for any app to implement.

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Nick's BlogApr 4, 2026

Signaling AI Preferences on ATProto

Atproto users need a way to express granular AI preferences and carve out exceptions for specific entities or content types. This post introduces community.lexicon.preference.ai, a lexicon schema that decomposes AI usage into distinct categories and adds a scoped override mechanism built on top of Bluesky's User Intents proposal.

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Nick's BlogApr 2, 2026

Payments on Protocol

atprotofans.com was a proof of concept for payments on ATProtocol built at Graze Social. This post is about what we built, why proof of payment on protocol matters, and what it makes possible.

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