#atproto does not need to win only by convincing people to post somewhere new. It can win by becoming the foundation for software people already need to use because of real-world relationship woodys-rows.pckt.blog/open-forks-of-boring-apps-wit…
Open Forks of Boring Apps With Authority
woodys-rows.pckt.blogAug 8, 2026 at 12:44 AM
ATproto facilitates competition - Tynan's Leaflets
Content is not a moat anymore. You have to compete on experience.
ATProto ideas
If AT Protocol becomes “a meaningful layer of the web” — even if it’s only tens of millions of users — then the winning ideas probably won’t only be futuristic...
The promise of ATproto is social media without corporate overlords | The Web Dev Podcast Series 1
Developers building apps on ATproto, the technology behind social media apps like Bluesky and Leaflet, are promising us a future where we own our content and aren’t at the whims of a tiny handful of companies. Software engineer Zeu Capua talks to host Jason Lengstorf about the promise of social media where we can actually own our own data.
funding - ATProtocol Dev
The IndieSky working group will work together on R&D, code, and infrastructure on how and why to run different parts of the ATProto stack. Free Our Feeds is supporting the effort with an initial donation of 50k
Playing with the idea of ATProto as a marketplace for compute github.com/publicdomainrelay/compute-con…
Compute Contracts - Blog
john.leaflet.pub
John
Got a little reverse proxy over ssh auth'd via ATmosphere account going: fedproxy.com
some thoughts on atproto as a post-app paradigm
Ecosystem Plugins
notes.wesleyfinck.orgsome thoughts on atproto as a post-app paradigm
Ecosystem Plugins
notes.wesleyfinck.orgSome of us in the ActivityPub world feel jealous of AtProto’s success (like me). But more decentralization is a win for everyone. With Bridgy from @anew.social connecting protocols, this isn’t competition, it’s momentum. We’re stronger together, so let’s build the social web humanity deserves 🚀
Some thoughts on why ATProto is so exciting from the perspective of what it could unlock software dev wise.
ATProto: Engine of Software 2.0
john.leaflet.pubthe point of atproto is to make locked-open apps. apps which are constrained such that they cannot be e.g. bought by billionaires and ruined. yes, doing non-atproto things "enables app developers to do more". yes, non-atproto is "more intuitive" and "it sucks" when you hit atproto's limits.
