AT Protocol Publications (standard.site)

Scour can subscribe to long-form publications on the AT Protocol (opens in new tab) (the open social protocol behind Bluesky). These are blogs and publications hosted using the standard.site lexicons, a set of open specifications for publishing long-form content on the decentralized web.

How to Subscribe

Go to your Feeds page and paste any of the following into the subscribe box:

Bluesky handle — for example, @alice.bsky.social
DID — for example, did:plc:abcdefg...
AT URI — for example, at://alice.bsky.social/site.standard.publication/self

Scour resolves the publication from the identifier, verifies the publisher, and ingests its posts like any other feed. Posts appear in your feed and rank based on your interests.

Clicking Through

Each post links to its canonical URL on the publisher's website. Clicking opens the original post, just as with any other source in Scour.

Domain Verification

Before Scour ingests a publication's posts, it verifies that the publisher controls their domain. This is done by fetching the publisher's /.well-known/site.standard.publication file. If verification fails, the publication will not appear in your feed. This is standard AT Protocol behavior and protects against impersonation.

Plain Website URLs

Pasting a plain website URL (for example, https://alice.com) uses Scour's normal RSS and feed discovery, not AT Protocol lookup. To subscribe to an AT Protocol publication, use a handle, DID, or at:// URI as described above.

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