For the sake of documentation, here's a thread of all the conversations I've been having about atmosphere websites 🧵

For the sake of documentation, here's a thread of all the conversations I've been having about atmosphere websites 🧵

I've been thinking about the beauty of open data and how the AT Protocol and wider Atmosphere ecosystem has been recapturing that open data environment that once defined the web. It really does feel special. vale.rocks/posts/atproto-ethos #atproto #ATProtocol

til that any atmosphere app could unceremoniously nuke all of your pds data (across all apps) if it wanted to! i guess this is a reminder to be careful w your logins!!

Reporting from #ATmosphereConf protocolsforpublishers.com/atmosphereconf-2026/

Oh this is interesting. At first I thought it was yet another lexicon to wrap data on, but it's a way for anyone to use ATProto as a discovery mechanism for their non-PDS-hosted datasets. I hadn't thought of the ATmosphere and the relays as a way to surface arbitrary existing data until know.

Guys... GUYS, listen. I am begging you all to think bigger! The Atmosphere may be a fun space to explore how familiar services and apps interact—but it's still just social media. The protocol enables us to change behaviors and solve *systemic* problems It's the thing that gets us TO the thing.

multiple ways of understanding the atmosphere are good - you can store extra stuff in your bluesky account : good - an open file system for your social graph : good - an ocean of possibility created by freeing data from the clutches of big tech : good different approaches reach different people

There are 24 billion records on the atmosphere