Essential Resources for Getting Started with AT Protocol
A set of critical links for anyone interested in getting started with AT Protocol and exploring the landscape

ATProto Isn't What You Think
This post takes a look at ATProto from a different angle, and explores the value of some possibly less-noticed pieces of it.

What is the Atmosphere? - Leaflet Lab Notes
An explainer for everyone in 4 minutes or less.
The Atmosphere, Explained - Erlend’s notes
people in the centre, platforms at the margins
Who actually owns your network?
Every time I moved a community to a new platform, the exit cost members and history. Platforms come and go; the lock-in architecture underneath is why. Part of 'Apps as Views, Not Vaults': the things you make are yours; apps are just the viewers.

Open Social
Thinking about atproto as an identity and data *substrate* of the web. RSS couldn't go all the way because it built within the boundaries of the same-origin paradigm, just like the closed platforms that ended up enclosing most of the web.
Paul Frazee
Yeah I'd say RSS was directionally right - it was an underpowered database replication protocol. It just needed to go all the way
What is the Atmosphere? - Leaflet Lab Notes

Your identity isn't your username

Who actually owns your network?
There Are No Instances in atproto — overreacted
Here’s @rude1.blacksky.team, Founder and CEO of @blackskyweb.xyz and Excellence Award Winner of the #OpenSocialAwards. Blacksky is a beacon…

The Everything Account