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...
Atproto Is the Context Window You Own - The Tropopause
I don't think it's a coincidence that atproto is taking off at the same time AI is. Well, okay, it kind of is a coincidence. I don't think anybody planned these...
Atmosphere sync: Tap, Hydrant, roll-your-own? - microcosm
A rough framework for deciding how to keep up with atproto data
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.
AT Protocol explainers
Articles/blog posts explaining ATProto/the atmosphere
ATProto Science Community Garden
Open collection for ATProto science related content: projects, tools, research or anything else you think is relevant!
ATProto Science Projects
Projects using ATProto for science applications
The social meaning of atproto
How do we understand what atproto is?
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
The Atmosphere
TOKIMEKI と、なかまたち — TOKIMEKIではじめるBluesky
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
Skyreader
Meitheal · SensorThings on ATProto
Podium — open data search
Hypercerts — Collective Intelligence for Funding Impact
GainForest — Biodiversity Observations & Nature Projects
Lea - A calmer Bluesky for researchers
A conceptual model of ATProto and ActivityPub
ATProto ideas
Wesley Finck (@wesleyfinck.org)
Copyright and DMCA Best Practices for Fediverse Operators
The Shape of Apps to Come, Devin Ivy, ATmosphereConf Seattle 2025
FediForum Talk: Atproto: A Technical Introduction
