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Where We're At

Terms of Use

Last updated 20 September 2026

These terms govern your use of where-were.at, an annual community survey of the AT Protocol ecosystem run by Louis Escher. Using the site means you accept them. The privacy policy describes what happens to your data and forms part of these terms.

What the survey is

Where We're At asks the people who build on the AT Protocol what they use, what they run and what they think. It is free, it is independent, and it is run by one person as a community project with no affiliation to Bluesky PBC or to any project it asks about.

The results are published as an aggregate report and, for respondents who consent to it, as an anonymized row-level dataset.

Who can take part

You need an AT Protocol account and you need to be at least 16 years old. One person gets one response per edition, which the sign-in enforces by account.

What you agree not to do

  • submit responses from accounts created or coordinated to push the results in a direction
  • automate answering, or send anything to the site other than through the normal survey pages
  • put unlawful content, personal data about other people, or anything you have no right to share into a free-text field
  • attempt to reach the administration pages or another respondent's answers
  • place a load on the site that interferes with other people using it

Responses that look coordinated can be excluded from the published results. Exclusion is recorded with a reason and does not delete anything, so a decision can be reviewed.

What you give permission for

By submitting answers you permit their publication in aggregate form, which is the whole point of the survey. Free-text comments may be quoted in the report as you wrote them, after a moderation pass, and a comment box left empty is never quoted.

Publication in the open dataset happens only if you tick the consent box on the submit page. The participation record is written to your repo only if you tick the badge box. Both are separate from taking part, and declining either changes nothing about your response.

You keep every right you have in what you write. The permission granted here is non-exclusive, worldwide and free of charge, limited to publishing and archiving the survey results, and it survives for the published editions because a report from 2027 cannot be unpublished in 2031.

The published material

The report, the charts and the dataset are published for anyone to read, cite and build on. The survey questions, the code and the curated entity lists are open source in the project's repository under the licence stated there.

Withdrawing

Delete your response at any time from the deletion pagewhile signed in, or by writing to privacy@where-were.at. Aggregate figures already published stay published, because they identify nobody.

Availability

The site is offered as it is, with no promise that it is reachable at any given moment and no guarantee that a particular edition runs. Answers are saved section by section as you go, and keeping a copy of anything you would be sorry to lose is on you.

Liability

The operator is liable without limit for damages caused intentionally or through gross negligence, and for injury to life, body or health. For slight negligence, liability exists only where a duty essential to the purpose of these terms is breached, and is then limited to the damage typical for this kind of agreement and foreseeable at the time. Liability under the German Product Liability Act is unaffected. Any further liability is excluded.

Links to other projects, apps and documentation point at content the operator does not control and is not responsible for.

Changes to these terms

These terms change when the survey changes. The date at the top says when they were last revised and the full history is in the public repository. Continuing to use the site after a change means accepting the revised version, and a change that materially affects responses already submitted is announced on the site before it takes effect.

Applicable law

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer resident in the EU, the mandatory consumer protection rules of your country of residence continue to apply in full.

Severability

If one provision here turns out to be invalid, the rest stays in force, and the invalid provision is read as the valid rule that comes closest to its purpose.