privacy.atls.city

See what your Bluesky account already says about where you are

A privacy service by ATlas. Bluesky is public by design — bios, follows, and posts often point to a city. We help you read those clues, see what we’ve inferred for local feeds, and ask us to forget you.

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A service by atls.city · also used by Near You

What this is

Everything on Bluesky can be collected by anyone. Put together, those signals often reveal a city. ATlas and Near You use that openly for local feeds, and may show a public city-confidence badge (a percentage — not the city name).

This site is not a fake opt-out from the open network. The lasting control is broadcasting fewer clues. What we can do is show you our report, clear our stored inference, leave you out of location feeds, and stop locating you.

Your privacy report

No site login required. Prove it’s you on Bluesky, then unlock the report here:

  1. DM @atls.city exactly my report
  2. We’ll reply with a short code (expires in 30 minutes)
  3. Enter your Bluesky username and that code below

Message @atls.city

Username alone isn’t enough — you need the code from your own DM. Don’t share the code.

Prefer Bluesky sign-in instead?

Make yourself harder to locate

Unlock your report above. We’ll score how easy you are to infer from public Bluesky clues (bio, follows, tags, graph) — not a city you deliberately published on ATlas — then rank fixes so other apps struggle too.

“Forget me” only clears ATlas / Near You. Real obfuscation means changing what you broadcast.

How to give away fewer clues

This is the real control. Changing what you broadcast matters more than clearing our copy of it.

  • Bio and display name: leave out city, neighbourhood, nicknames like “PDX” or “the 206”, state flags, local teams or schools.
  • Hashtags: local tags (#Portland, #pdx, town events) are strong when you use them often.
  • Who you follow: lots of accounts from one place points there. Consider lists or feeds instead of following.
  • Your followers: hardest to hide — if most are from one city, that city shows through.
  • Local lists: others can list you for a city without asking. We only count it once several people list you for the same place.
  • Posts and photos: weather, transit, landmarks, and street signs all narrow things down.

Ask us to forget you

That means we clear your public confidence badge (if any), leave you out of Near You location feeds, delete our stored location data, and stop trying to infer your location.

Public clues on Bluesky stay public — anyone else can still infer a city from them. Voluntary ATlas city labels you added on atls.city are separate; remove those there if you want.

From the account you want forgotten:

  • DM @atls.city exactly forget me forever (case doesn’t matter; forget me also works), or
  • Block @atls.city — same result. Unblock = remember, unless you already forgot via DM/site.

Open @atls.city

Undo: DM remember me, or unblock if blocking is how you forgot. Signed-in control appears with your report above.

When signals fade

ClueWhen it goes away for us
ATlas location you addedWithin 10 minutes of removing it on atls.city
BioAs soon as you edit the place out (we watch profile edits live)
Local hashtagsWe only count the last 30 days
Follows / followersRecomputed from the current graph (daily / weekly)
Other people’s listsWhen they remove you or delete the list
Confidence badgeWithin 12 hours of the clue going away — or immediately if you forget