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After a month of travel and special episode livestreams, Jim and Alex are settling in for a bit of a return to normalcy. Highlights include a new top-level domain proposal, an community-driven surey of the ecosystem, a preview of what spaces could look like in the Bluesky app, and more. Links & Resources Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider on Bluesky’s .bsky TLD application TechCrunch: Bluesky wants to give you your own domain on the open web Bryan Newbold's at:// URI scheme draft Where We’re AT 2026 Post-alpha plans for permissioned data EmDash 1.0 Cloudflare: EmDash’s plugin registry Bluesky Head of Product Alex Benzer shared a thread with some thoughts on spaces in the Bluesky app The Tolerance Group Blacksky polls Brookie’s polls Graze's midterms election feed app MySky feed infrastructure Mapping web pages to canonical AT records FOSDEM 2027 atproto devroom proposal Atmosphere community events The archive for this episode, including a generated transcript, is available at https://atproto.com/off-protocol/2026-10-09-crab-bisque-y. Off Protocol is a production of the Bluesky developer relations team. For more about AT Protocol and an archive of this show, head to atproto.com. Our theme music was composed and produced by Saleem Reshamwala. Catch our livestream every other Wednesday at stream.place/atproto.com.