Interesting conversation exploring the future of atproto sustainability!
JP
I want people to be comfortable paying for an atproto account (ie. space on a PDS) It’s the bedrock of everything we’re building; if it’s not funded it’ll get squeezed in ways that are bad for users (hi Gmail) We should normalise having (very cheap) paid-tier PDS accounts on the services we build
what is atproto?
AT Protocol Developers
@bsky.app recently acquired the trademark for AT Protocol (and variants) to help protect the ecosystem. Here’s more about what that means. atproto.com/blog/at-protocol-trademark
zzstoatzz.io/protopack

Building the Social Graph with Hubble and Jetstream - 50 Shades of Protocol
co-infra/co-infra-img
Mezzanine: An Information Network Built on Bluesky's Cashtags - Nightflight
syndicating radio with evil atproto - nekomimi

On Atproto and Atmospheric Groups - The Tropopause
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About RO-Crate | Research Object Crate (RO-Crate)

Lea: A Social App for Researchers - ATmosphereConf 2026
Chive | Decentralized Eprint Service
What It Means for Universities to Run Their Own PDS: The Potential of DID as Academic Infrastructure - Nightflight

Standard.site - One schema. Every platform.

Lichen

Skyreader

Meitheal · SensorThings on ATProto
Podium — open data search

Hypercerts — Collective Intelligence for Funding Impact

GainForest — Biodiversity Observations & Nature Projects
There's this verb "distribution" used in the context of sentences like "Substack solved distribution" and I don't get it. What does it mean?
ATProto builders, I've been having some really positive conversations with multiple funders who want to invest in the ecosystem. The tides…

Become a supporter · Currents

Introducing the “organize mode” and the supporter tier
Become a Sill+ supporter - Euphonos

Standard.site Summer, on Bluesky's tab | Offprint

Matadata! Publishing scientific data straight to AT - ATmosphereConf 2026

Skysquare is context as a service - Travis Simpson - @skysquare.app - ATmosphereConf 2026

The Atmosphere as research infrastructure

Reigniting the Party: Lessons from a Stalled Migration to Bluesky - ATmosphereConf 2026

Building decentralized AI on atproto - ATmosphereConf 2026

Making wisdom together - seams.so - @hyl.st - ATmosphereConf 2026

App creator pledges against enshittification
Bluesky needs its own complete YC atproto stack - accelerator, seed funding, founder network, investor pipeline, mentorship, demo days,…
Project vs. Product, Startup vs. Business
Let's Talk Money - Interlinked
I don't know that I'd say I have it covered exactly, but I have a general architectural plan. Games are actually going to be a really hard…
ATProto builders, I've been having some really positive conversations with multiple funders who want to invest in the ecosystem. The tides…
Managing scientific knowledge for policy on the ATmosphere - Mathew's newsletter
RRGI · Discourse Graph — lens switch
Lupita Nihongo (@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app)
Observ.ing - Observe nature. Own your data.
lexicons.bio
science.latha.org
atproto explainers (by Ronen Tamari) — Semble
⁂ Standarding yo site (by Tynan Purdy ⁂) — Semble
blog-to-atproto (by Ariel M. (she/her)) — Semble
Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATP) Working Group - IETF (by Victoria) — Semble
⁂ Atmospheric Personal Websites (by Tynan Purdy ⁂) — Semble
Private & Permissioned Data (by Boris) — Semble
PDS OS
trueberryless/awesome-atproto

SkyTrace

atmoBB Forums
Your files. Your account.
pixl
It's working - Tynan's Leaflets
Call for Participation: AT Protocol Ecosystem Action Research - Ecosystem Action
Roomy joins Modal incubator - Roomy
Better, Together - Graze Newsletter
Adversarial internecting - permablog

Huey Newton introduces Revolutionary Intercommunalism, Boston College, November 18 1970