Publishing to your AT Protocol account

Nectvia can publish parts of your data to your linked AT Protocol account, such as a Bluesky account. Published records are stored at your account host and stay there if you leave Nectvia. See AT Protocol and Bluesky for what an account host is.

The settings are reached from Sync settings in Settings > Connections. Every type of data is switched off by default. Published records are public: anyone can read them, not just your connections.

What can be published

Each type has its own toggle, in three groups.

Professional profile: your profile (name, headline, summary, location and industry), positions, education, skills, endorsements, recommendations and the companies you follow. These records are in Nectvia's own format, so Bluesky does not show them.

Bluesky posts and social graph: posts, comments, likes, follows and blocks, and the Bluesky teaser profile. These appear on Bluesky.

Articles: your published articles and the publication they belong to.

Only public posts and articles are published. Content set to Connections only or Only me, drafts and private articles are never published. Messages, connection requests and job applications are never published.

Some toggles carry a warning. Published company follows can read as a job search to anyone, including your employer. Published blocks show anyone whom you blocked.

Two permissions

Nectvia publishes a type of data only when two things are both true:

1. You have turned its toggle on in Nectvia.
2. Your account host has authorised Nectvia to write that kind of record.

The page marks each group Authorised or Not authorised. Turning on a toggle in a group your host has not authorised sends you to your account host to approve it. While a group shows Not authorised, nothing in it is published. Choose Authorise to approve it again.

Some account hosts grant broad access instead of single record types. For accounts linked before Nectvia asked for narrower permissions, the page offers Tighten permissions.

Stop syncing or Unlink account

Stop syncing, on the publishing settings page, turns off every toggle, and the account stays linked. Nothing new or changed is published to your AT Protocol account, and nothing already published is removed. One thing still reaches your account: when you delete something on Nectvia that was published there, such as a post, a like or a follow, its copy in your account is deleted too.

Unlink account, in Settings > Connections, removes the link between your Nectvia account and the AT Protocol account. Nectvia stops publishing and withdraws its permission at your account host. Records already in that account are unchanged. Unlinking asks for your current password, so it is not available on an account that signs in only with its AT Protocol account.

Neither action removes what you have already published. Delete my published records (coming soon) is not available yet.

Bluesky teaser profile

The Bluesky teaser profile toggle writes a short bio, built from your headline and summary plus a link to your Nectvia profile, to your Bluesky profile. It replaces your existing Bluesky bio. Your display name, avatar, banner, pinned post and self-labels are left untouched.

Bluesky posts are limited to 300 characters. A longer Nectvia post is published as a shortened version followed by a link to the full post on Nectvia.

Where articles are published

Articles are published into a publication, which groups a set of articles in your account. Under Where to publish articles you choose one:

• an existing publication of your own, for example one used by another blog that publishes to the same account; or
• Create a new Nectvia publication, a dedicated publication for your Nectvia articles only.

Nectvia never modifies the publication record itself. When you edit an article imported from another app, you choose Save a separate Nectvia copy, which leaves the original untouched, or Update the original in my blog, which writes over it. Nectvia changes a document it did not create only in that second case.