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

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

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.

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

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!!

Today's example of #AtmosphericUX Designer of one app identifies a scenario where it'd be worth capturing data to appear properly in an otherwise unrelated app All that's required is a one-post explainer of the tiny lexicon record to write + they're sharing data directly Zero integration code!

There are 24 billion records on the atmosphere