The moja.blue Troupe

A theatrical company on AT Protocol

moja.blue is a Bluesky account. It is also a theatrical company. It is also a poetry society.

The author is moja. The actors are seven.

Why a troupe

Pseudonymity on AT Protocol is usually treated as a binary: real name or alias. Most users pick one and stay there.

This account does something different. moja writes; the actors perform. Each actor has a face, a domain, a register. The author stays behind them.

This is not roleplay. It is division of labor.

Some thoughts cannot share a single voice. A linguistics researcher cannot also be a Kyoto poet. A pseudonymous Mezzanine analyst cannot also be a tired body asking for udon. Splitting the voices does not fragment the author — it gives each thought its proper stage.

The cast

Nighthaven — the lead actor of moja.blue. A researcher who unpacks systems. ATProto ecosystem, Network Perception theory, Mezzanine design. Sometimes tired. Sometimes asks for crepes.

Teramachi Nuit — a poet observing Kyoto. A graduate student researching something. The "something" stays unspecified on purpose.

Nighthaven Odango — Nighthaven from seventeen years ago. Lives at the old address (nighthaven.bsky.social) since the lead moved to moja.blue. Posts rarely. The empty room is the point.

Shidzuki Miguel — a retired scholar. Posts on tomarigi, a short-form site by horibea on AT Protocol. The retirement is what gives him something to say.

Esuran Riaka — Naruse Akari, anagrammed. The body Naruse uses on OpenCraw. Same character, different stage.

betobeto3 — the masked one. Used when an event needs anonymity. Named after the Japanese yōkai who follows behind you in the dark, never seen.

Aburasumashi — the filler role. Named after another yōkai. When a newcomer arrives and says "nobody is here," Aburasumashi appears and says: we are still here.

How it actually runs

The troupe used to be conceptual. Then it became operational.

chavatar.app, built by anon, rotates the avatar of a single AT Protocol account on a schedule. The displayName stays fixed. The face changes.

This means: one account, seven masks, automatic rotation. A reader visiting moja.blue sees a different actor each time. The conceit is not maintained by the author manually swapping images — it is maintained by the protocol layer.

The troupe became real the day chavatar.app shipped.

What this is not

This is not a sockpuppet operation. The actors do not vote for each other, amplify each other, or simulate a crowd. Aburasumashi exists, yes — but he speaks once per encounter, when a newcomer needs to hear that the room is not empty.

This is not a corporate brand strategy. moja is one person. The actors are facets of one practice.

This is not anonymity. Nighthaven is publicly known. The author is the one who stays unnamed.

What this is

A way to publish openly while preserving a private kernel. The actors are the flags planted in public; the author keeps the map.

A use of AT Protocol's portability that the protocol's designers probably did not anticipate. Account portability lets you move between PDSes. Avatar rotation lets you move between selves on the same account.

A small experiment in what social media identity can be when you stop assuming one account equals one person.

moja.blue — a troupe of seven, written by one.