Bluesky vs Discord

Bluesky is the decentralized social network built on the AT Protocol, where posts, follows, and identity live on portable Personal Data Servers instead of one company's database. Its public AppView at public.api.bsky.app exposes keyless, read-only XRPC methods such as app.bsky.actor.getProfile and app.bsky.feed.getAuthorFeed, so any client can pull public profiles and feeds without registering an app. Posting, following, or reading a signed-in user's private data instead requires an authenticated session against a Personal Data Server via an app password or OAuth, not a single global API key.

Discord's REST and Gateway APIs let bots and apps manage servers, channels, messages, and slash commands, authenticated with a bot token for server-side integrations or OAuth2 for user-facing flows like account linking. Rate limits are enforced per route and per bucket, and most guild-management scopes only work once the bot has been added to a server with matching OAuth2 permission scopes.