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Yes, something like this is planned in longer term.

The team decided to tackle public data first because scaling aggregation while preserving meaningful ownership is hard. So far I think they’ve succeeded at that.

Private or semi-private comes with a set of different challenges. Indeed scoped tokens are coming (via OAuth scopes) but that’s used for writes. The same mechanism could be extended for private reads in the future, like you describe. There’s questions about what shape private data would have though.

See https://pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3lzhmtognls2q and https://pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3lzhui2zbxk2b for recent thoughts on this topic from Paul who works on atproto.



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