DIDConnect

🌐 Decentralized Microblogging Client – AT Protocol Capstone Project

🧠 Overview

This project is a secure, decentralized microblogging client built on top of the AT Protocol, emphasizing identity ownership, data portability, and federated interoperability.

The client enables users to migrate their identity and social graph across platforms without losing data, using DIDs (Decentralized Identifiers), user repos, and custom app views — all implemented within a Big World Design structure.

🎯 Objective

To design and develop a decentralized social media platform that:

• Prioritizes user control over their identity and data
• Supports account migration and interoperability across federated servers
• Demonstrates secure integration of the AT Protocol with scalable client architecture

🧰 Tech Stack & Tools

• Languages: JavaScript / TypeScript, HTML/CSS
• Protocol: AT Protocol (Bluesky)
• Identity Layer: Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs)
• Frontend: Custom microblogging UI
• Backend: Repo sync & user session logic
• Testing: Test-Driven Development (TDD), Unit & Integration tests
• Project Management: Jira, Confluence, Agile methodology

📦 Key Features

• 🔐 Secure login and identity management using DIDs
• 🔁 Account migration tools to retain social graphs across federated nodes
• 🧩 App views and user repos compliant with evolving AT Protocol standards
• 🔧 Built with Test-Driven Development (TDD) from the ground up
• 🏗️ Supports future extension for media embedding, mentions, and hashtags

⚠️ Challenges Faced

• The AT Protocol was actively evolving during development — mid-project schema and API updates required multiple architectural shifts
• Ensured data migration stability and schema consistency despite shifting protocol specs
• Limited developer documentation and tooling available for AT Protocol at the time

📈 Outcomes

• Successfully deployed a working federated client demo using live protocol nodes
• Implemented resilient migration logic for user data and social graphs
• Delivered a polished and documented solution under tight protocol evolution constraints

📄 Documentation Included

• AT Protocol integration notes
• Schema definitions for app views and user repos
• DID architecture flow
• TDD test coverage logs and Jira burndown chart

🔐 Security Concepts Demonstrated

• Decentralized Identity & Authentication
• Federated Architecture
• Secure Account Portability
• Protocol Adaptability under change

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🧩 Future Improvements

• migration stability
• Moderation tooling and protocol-compliant flagging
• Public activity feeds and topic aggregation