Why are people talking about an everything app? Also what do you mean by everything? Because the real everything app is the mobile OS. Do we mean a handful of social/information modalities + payments? I mean that’s cool if the ux makes sense and better than separate apps. It’s not “everything”.
May 10, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Every App is an "Everything" App In the Atmosphere - Zicklag's Leaflets
“the everything app” is a stupid, hopeless, harmful, no good, toxic, impossible idea “the everything ecosystem” is good, natural, resilient, attractive, sustainable, achievable, and currently within reach thanks to @atproto.com
There's Life Beyond the App Store
With the imminent release of Foundation for Apps, we've been chatting a lot about apps and how they're built. We've discussed the topic internally with our team, externally with our clients and with tons of our amazing ZURB friends. Much of that discussion revolved around not just how to produce apps, but what an app really is, how they differ from websites and even the future of where they'll go.
I saw some talk about "everything apps" and it got me thinking a little bit about it. With the Atmosphere I feel like a really cool part about it is that we can make all of our apps "everything" apps. It's not "my app's data" or "your app's data" anymore. We can color outside the lines.
Every App is an "Everything" App In the Atmosphere
zicklag.leaflet.pubno: everything app yes: primitives that let any app frame windows to any view of the network, wide or narrow broad set of tools for a local community? diverse ways to engage with longform? yes & yes! but edges are good everything I need *for a given context*; everything in theory not practice
AT protocol doesn’t play zero-sum, winner-takes-all games. “European X?” No, European data sovereignty for all of x/y/z in amicable competition. “Killer app?” No, interoperable apps as the monopoly-killer. “Everything-app?” No, everything-account in a pluriverse of user-owned software.
Robin Berjon
"Why do people keep calling for a 'European X' or a 'European Instagram' when instead, by sharing infrastructure as we're doing with @eurosky.social, we could have 20 or 30 social networks?" — @seabass.bsky.social
Post-appitalism rejects the super-app as a meaningful alternative to todays app-based production of software. An app that becomes so big that it starts sucking in smaller apps perpetuates the same dynamics no matter how well integrated the smaller apps can be.
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post-appitalism post-appitalism.app
