[ireadmevs]

All of this is meant for 100% public data, right? Or is there a concept of visibility control? Can I create private communities, with data flowing just inside?

[danabramov]

For now, yes, only 100% public data lives on the protocol (you can still, of course, augment protocol data with the stuff you hold in the DB).

In the future, the plan is to also enable some types of private data on the protocol. See these recent notes from Paul on the state of things:

- https://pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3lzhmtognls2q

- https://pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3lzhui2zbxk2b

[verdverm]

There is also a Working Group that just formed to push the envelope on private data / permissioned spaces

Links to my own efforts on this

- https://github.com/blebbit/atproto (fork)

- https://youtu.be/oYKA85oZc8U?si=DIf09hu8-REw-yHj&t=3758 (presentation I gave last week)