Representing groups in ATProto

Representing groups in ATProto

I wanted to add book clubs to my GoodReads-like app (Collective), but ATProto doesn't have a standard way to handle shared group resources yet. So I'm building opensocial.community—a separate service that manages groups independently from any single app. This means the same book club could potentially work across multiple apps (imagine your book club having both a reading list in Collective AND a discussion forum in another app), and groups can migrate between providers if needed. It's probably over-engineered for my use case, but might help other ATProto developers building community features.

The Community Manager Pattern - Nick's Blog

This post looks more closely at Brittany Ellich's work on representing groups in ATProtocol. It builds on earlier conversations and explores how these ideas might work in practice.

ATProtocol Community

A community space for coordinating, convening, and collaboration around ATProto

ATProtocol Community

A community space for coordinating, convening, and collaboration around ATProto

Owning group data - meri's missives

Thinking about how communities can manage shared data on and off ATProto

Off the Clock: a members-only community on atproto spaces

Hi everyone! I’d like to share Off the Clock, a members-only community site for friends, family, colleagues, and neighbors, built on atproto spaces. This started as a hands-on experiment to model and work through communities, sub-communities, and feeds in the context of atproto space and has been instrumental in working through the quirks and processes. (The screenshots are from a working demo community with made-up members.) What it is Off the Clock is a community container that implement...

Off the Clock: a members-only community on atproto spaces

Hi everyone! I’d like to share Off the Clock, a members-only community site for friends, family, colleagues, and neighbors, built on atproto spaces. This started as a hands-on experiment to model and work through communities, sub-communities, and feeds in the context of atproto space and has been instrumental in working through the quirks and processes. (The screenshots are from a working demo community with made-up members.) What it is Off the Clock is a community container that implement...

Open Social

Community management infrastructure for ATProto applications.

The Arbiter - Group Management for Permissioned Spaces and Beyond - Zicklag's Leaflets

The permissioned data proposal has the concept of membership, but leaves it to the app to orchestrate it. The arbiter is our idea for a general-purpose, interoperable ATProto group membership service.

[Proposal] WG for group/community standards and infrastructure in ATProto

Interested in contributing — specifically to Phase 1 (shared ontology and community archetypes). I’m a cognitive linguist and university researcher. My work on the AT Protocol side includes Mezzanine, an information networking system using opaque cashtag connectors as a routing layer, and two Leaflet pieces on community infrastructure as a gradient — from permissionless tag-based commons to credentialed spaces. The reason I’m flagging my disciplinary background: Phase 1 is where this WG will e...

Atmosphere Community

A community space for coordinating, convening, and collaboration around ATProto

WG Community Standards

A community space for coordinating, convening, and collaboration around ATProto

[Proposal] WG for group/community standards and infrastructure in ATProto

TLDR: I’m proposing a working group to develop shared interoperable standards for community infrastructure within ATProto. Many teams are independently making foundational design decisions about group/community membership, governance, and infrastructure. Without coordination, a de facto standard will calcify from momentum rather than deliberate evaluation of the ranges of community needs. I provide initial questions and principles to start discussion. Many people, apps and projects in developme...