Atmosphere - keith.is a web developer

What the atmosphere is, why your data should be yours, and what I'm building on AT Protocol.

ATmosphere Conf 2026: the internet built for people, not platforms

370 people in Vancouver, 500 online, all working on the same question: what does the internet look like when users own their data? Highlights from the AT Protocol community conference.

Garden and the Stream - thoughts

Revisiting a prescient 2015 keynote called The Garden and the Stream and analyzing where the AT protocol fits in the web

The Atmosphere . Building the open social web

Protocolly Atmoseed - AT Protocol

News from around the Atmosphere, including a proposal to fix localhost, more webdevs getting into atproto, Mu Social's opinionated news feed, and more.

Winning back the Open Web

Walled gardens dominate because their massive data collection lets them deliver superior user experiences. To win back the open web, we need to build alternatives that respect users, embrace open standards, and still feel unmistakably better to use.

The Consensus Trap: Dissecting Subjectivity and the “Ground Truth” Illusion in Data Annotation

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Some Thoughts on the Open Web

The Open Web means several things to different people, depending on context, but recently discussions have focused on the Web's Openness in terms of access to information -- how easy it is to publish and obtain information without barriers there.

bnewbold.net

Bluesky released early documentation for the "AT Protocol" (atproto) a few weeks ago, and I've been noodling around with it. Technically, it strikes an appealing balance between rigid cryptographically signed content-addressable storage on the one hand, and familiar web-friendly schemas and integrations on the other. But at an ecosystem level, there are already a bunch of existing open social media projects. Does atproto bring anything interesting to the table? How might it fit in compared to other similar protocols?

Blogging on the open social web - and more exciting features - pckt - Dev Journal

ATmosphere — referring to the growing ecosystem of applications built on the AT Protocol, a federated protocol for open social platforms. Not to be confused ...