I still think the biggest perk of atproto for everyday devs is not the decentralization, but things like - Handles auth, with good standards to check that auth and build permission layers. - A free public key/value database. - Can build api clients and some of the backend with lexicon schemas
Apr 9, 2026 at 12:49 PM
third-party apis: community infrastructure on atproto - Keith's Thoughts
you can just build things from an open set of tools
microcosm: atproto building blocks
Open-source atproto services and resilient community infrastruture to launch your next app
microcosm: atproto building blocks
Open-source atproto services and resilient community infrastruture to launch your next app
Ideas on a Financially Sustainable Atproto | Alex | Offprint
Explore a new funding model for Atproto that moves beyond grants and VC. Discover how StratosFund enables sustainable, community-driven open-source development.
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
Building the Future of Games on ATProto | Birbhouse Games
Game platforms hold too much power over developers. We want to change that by decentralizing games with ATProto โ devs own their data, players own their progress, and no payment processor can take it away.
Rashid Aziz: Extending ATproto for private data - ATProto Community
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
Odoo has this toggle of showing their apps / what apps you can build or replace. They list 40K+ "community apps" And yes, also open source github.com/odoo/odoo With private data, likely good opportunities for atproto, too.
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 single most important part of atproto is the PDS as a user-controlled auth and storage layer to which clients can connect directly. death to appviews
Authenticated Transfer Enables Orchestration - nekomimi
blog.nekomimi.petActually I don't think #atproto is about decentralization. It's more about indexing over distributed data. @bsky.app and @tangled.org are actually a centralized service just like general web search engines are. But just like search engines, we don't own your content and this is the important part. ๐งต
Theo
๐๐ To be clear Iโm very into decentralized tech and atproto is very cool, I just donโt love shoving it into everything and donโt see it as valuable in a use case like GitHub Iโm down to be convinced
