Here's my two minute explainer of atproto: it is in essence a water cycle. - Clouds hold water. - They precipitate water over mountains. - Water funnels down mountains into rivers. - Rivers branch off into lakes. - Water evaporates back into clouds, the cycle repeats.
Jul 17, 2026 at 1:19 AM
On Atproto and Atmospheric Groups - The Tropopause
I'm starting A Fresh Blog(tm), this time on Pckt. I wanted a dedicated space to post about development, atproto, and community thoughts, and a new space felt li...
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
My take on the "explaining atproto" discourse is that all the UX/filesystem/etc metaphors are still very verbose and that you can explain the same idea in a lot less words: It separates data from apps, so any app can use data from any other app. That fits in a tweet, with other sentences around it.
ATProto Science Projects
Projects using ATProto for science applications
AT Protocol explainers
Articles/blog posts explaining ATProto/the atmosphere
The social meaning of atproto
How do we understand what atproto is?
ATProto Science Community Garden
Open collection for ATProto science related content: projects, tools, research or anything else you think is relevant!
papers.club
Aster ID
Trail of Crumbs
fray — Bluesky thread factions
Underlay
Lichen
ATProto とは何か：開発者向け入門 ── kazahana の実装順で辿る 8 概念、ActivityPub との違い、そして AI × 分散 SNS の可能性｜鶚/みさご🥓🥞
I recently did a ATprotocol onboarding for some developers that was well received. I've published the entire slide deck so others can benefi…
one account wherever you go ☺️ your handle isn’t just for one app anymore ! we took @hello.pckt.cafe for a walk across the atmosphere
ATProto explainer thread from a non-Bluesky app/service’s perspective
Mojaland
What the hell is the atmosphere anyway - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere
Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable Decentralized Social Media
a native internet protocol for social media - Pastebin.com
bnewbold.net
This isn't over until we all listen to kpop - ATmosphereConf 2026
The political economy of the PDS (by 𝕮) — Semble
Paradigm shift to the Prosocial web
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
