Login with Bluesky (atproto)

[erlend-sh]

I listen to podcasts on two different devices, so I need a way to sync data between them. As such this relates to sync #132, but I’m also talking about the syncing of my subscriptions and app preferences, as well as having a cloud-backup of my account in the case of lost devices.

To facilitate easy account management, I’d love to see support for the open web-identity standard (among other things) AT Protocol.

https://atproto.wiki/en/wiki/reference/networking/oauth
https://docs.bsky.app/blog/account-management

I see you briefly checked out Bluesky some months ago 😁

The ecosystem has matured a lot now, and implementing atproto’s unique flavor of OAuth in a Dart project is greatly facilitated by atproto.dart by @myConsciousness

[amugofjava]

Thanks for the idea @erlend-sh - there's some good documentation there for me to dig into!

I'm following the progress over at the Open Podcast API - they are still open to discussion around authentication etc, might be a good fit for them too.

[erlend-sh]

Great, thanks for considering. I’ll keep an eye on that discussion.

[amugofjava]

Yes, definitely worth watching what they are doing. Both Anytime & AntennaPod are on device only so have no backend infrastructure, but the AntennaPod project is well established. It would be great to have a standardised way to sync across devices and, potentially, different podcast apps.

[erlend-sh]

Some additional framings of atproto’s value proposition here, first one being the most most essential:

• https://overreacted.io/open-social/
• https://blog.muni.town/personal-data-storage-idea/
• https://www.pfrazee.com/blog/atmospheric-computing
• https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/27/atproto-the-enshittification-killswitch-that-enables-resonant-computing/

For me as a user, having atproto identity integrated into Anytime would enable me to connect my podcasting with https://plyr.fm/ for social saving/sharing of favorite episodes, https://semble.so/ for assembly of podcast/episode collections, and https://skyreader.app/ simply for a unified login across both my rss and pod reader.

This kind of cross-app interop enables a new kind of knowledge layer for podcasts that we’re only just beginning to explore.