The pitch to community leaders and creators is still taking shape, but the interesting part is the fact that ATProto changes the relationships and power dynamics they and their community have around control of data, vendor lock in, and the flexibility to create new experiences.
Mar 22, 2026 at 2:49 PM
ATProtocol Community
A community space for coordinating, convening, and collaboration around ATProto
ATProtocol Community
A community space for coordinating, convening, and collaboration around ATProto
WG Community Standards
A community space for coordinating, convening, and collaboration around ATProto
What ATProto Needs to Support Consentful Distributed Community Governance
Atmosphere Community
A community space for coordinating, convening, and collaboration around ATProto
Decentralisation and blogging on atproto - Connected Places
The space for blogging and long-form writing on atproto is rapidly developing, and it gives some interesting insight in what decentralisation on atproto looks like
Introducing ATProtoFans: A New Way to Support Creators You Love - ATProtoFans Blog
The Community Manager Pattern - Nick's Blog
This post looks more closely at Brittany Ellich's work on representing groups in ATProtocol. It builds on earlier conversations and explores how these ideas might work in practice.
Call for Developer Projects · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #3049
The last few weeks have seen a swell of developer interest in atproto. Welcome! The protocol is maturing, and now is a great time for early adopters to jump in and start building. This post lists s...
AT-Communities #1: the Concierge, the Vault, and the Fuck-ass Astro Website – Essential Randomness
In which I try to make sense of communities on ATproto.
On verification and coordination authority - Connected Places
Who verifies the atproto developer community, and why can't it be the community itself?
I love that the design of atproto was in part inspired by big social Kafka and ScyllaDB server backends and @martin.kleppmann.com's Designing Data-Intensive Applications and the community immediately used it to implement thousands of apps with no backend lol
atproto offers an fascinating example of what it means to restructure this relationship. End-users get to choose who and how much trust they delegate to software producers, the delegation of trust becomes tangible and revokable.
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Networked computing, in a fundamental way, changed the producer-consumer relationship we have with corporations. In the material world that relationship ends with the transfer of material and money; I buy a pencil and some paper, and the producer is out of the picture while I use them to write.
#ATProto is giving Major Evolutionary Transition vibes: "(1) a new form of cooperation with almost total interdependence among individuals ... that creates a new functional entity, and (2) a ... new form of communication to support this cooperation." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Major_Transitions_in…
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ATProto is a post-app protocol trapped in a world of apps. I can feel it all around the edges of the network.
Some 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 🚀
