AT Protocol

Your account holds the bullets

AT Protocol is the network Bluesky is built on. Your account there is a store of everything you have written, kept by a provider you chose. When you write a bullet here, Bulleted asks that provider to save it for you. It does not keep a private copy that only Bulleted can read.

So if you stop using Bulleted, your outline does not go anywhere. It is already somewhere else.

Your name is yours

You sign in with the account you already have. Bulleted never issues you a password or an account of its own, and your name on the network belongs to you — you can take it with you, along with everything you have written.

How the reading and writing actually work

You sign in against your own provider, and Bulleted does the writing on your behalf — the browser never holds a key to your account.

Reading does not go back to your provider each time. Bulleted keeps its own copy of what is public, which is what makes an outline of ten thousand bullets open at the speed of a page rather than the speed of ten thousand requests. Changes reach your other tabs and devices within a moment of being made.

Nothing about that copy is exclusive. It holds only records that are already public, and anybody could build the same thing.

Two things worth reading next

Identity and permissions covers what Bulleted asks permission to do with your account, and how to take that permission back.

Lexicons covers the record formats a bullet is written in, and how to go and look at one.