ATProto and Bluesky

What is the Atmosphere? - Leaflet Lab Notes

An explainer for everyone in 4 minutes or less.

Social platforms are not neutral - Paul's Leaflets

So they need to be interchangeable

Social Media is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It. - Interlinked

Breaking down the AT Protocol for normies.

Let's fund the open social web

A pro-social approach to building better platforms

A New Social

Our mission is to liberate people's networks from their platforms, enabling The Last Network Effect and leveling the playing field across the open social web.

The “De” In “Decentralization” Stands For “Democracy”

There’s a certain dark irony in watching tech billionaires who built their empires on the “democratizing power of technology” now actively working to dismantle democratic institut…

The Last Social Account You'll Ever Need. - Interlinked

One Account to rule them all, one Account to find them, One Account to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.

ATproto: The Enshittification Killswitch That Enables Resonant Computing

Disclosure: I’m on the board of Bluesky, which was inspired by my “Protocols, Not Platforms” paper. But this post isn’t about Bluesky the app. It’s about the underlyin…

Open Social — overreacted

The protocol is the API.

Leaflet, Blogging, and How to Fix Social Media - Aaron Ross Powell

Decentralization, network overlap, and why we should all blog, too.

How to use Bluesky to grow your brand - atpotato

A comprehensive guide for companies, communities, and creators looking to establish and grow their presence on Bluesky.

My top Bluesky feature requests for 2024

In 2023 my social media consumption changed dramatically after I DM'd a random mufo on what-was-then-called Twitter for a Bluesky invite. At the time, I was floating between Twitter itself and Mastodon for my primary daily social media experience. On one hand, I loathed Twitter (and

Atproto Ethos - AT Protocol

A deep dive into the philosophical and aesthetic principles underlying the design of AT Protocol.

A conceptual model of ATProto and ActivityPub

If you were to design an open social networking protocol, what would that look like? Which metaphors and comparisons would you use to get a general idea of how the network functions? And what would you answer if people ask if your network is decentralised and federated?

Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media

X and Facebook are governed by the policies of mercurial billionaires. Bluesky’s C.E.O., Jay Graber, says that she wants to give power back to the user.

At SXSW, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber pokes fun at Mark Zuckerberg with Latin phrase T-shirt | TechCrunch

When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber walked onstage at SXSW 2025 for her keynote discussion, she wore a large black T-shirt with her hair pulled back into a bun.

A world without Caesars: How the ATProto community is rebuilding the web to return power to the people | TechCrunch

The first in-person gathering devoted to those building with the AT Protocol — which powers Bluesky — was held in Seattle.