🪩 Introducing matadisco.org! — a way to discover open datasets via #atproto that doesn't depend on any single institution staying online. 🕺🏼 We have more public data than ever (satellite imagery, climate models, genomic sequences), but finding it is still painfully hard.
Matadisco — Decentralized Data Discovery
matadisco.orgMar 24, 2026 at 9:22 PM
IPFS (@ipfs.tech)
🪩 Introducing matadisco.org! — a way to discover open datasets via #atproto that doesn't depend on any single institution staying online. 🕺🏼 We have more public data than ever (satellite imagery, climate models, genomic sequences), but finding it is still painfully hard. https://matadisco.org
Matadisco: Can We Bootstrap Public Data Discovery with ATProto?
Let's talk about a system for universal data discovery, that doesn't depend on any single institution staying funded or online.
Matadisco — Decentralized Data Discovery
An open, decentralized network for data discovery built on ATProto. Publish metadata, build portals, find data.
Rashid Aziz: Extending ATproto for private data - ATProto Community
Podium — open data search
Podium: a search engine for open data published on the AT Protocol — Matadisco datasets, Astrosky transient events, and more.
OpenMeet Survey - Create and Share Surveys with ATProto
Create and share surveys with your community using the ATProto ecosystem. Free, open-source, and privacy-focused.
The Atproto Spaces Alpha is Live - AT Protocol
Atproto Spaces, formerly known as “the permissioned data protocol,” is a new extension to atproto that enables non-public data. The alpha is now officially open. Here’s how to develop with it and what to expect as we work towards the full release.
This could be very relevant for funding the atproto ecosystem, especially once private data is supported ifp.org/unlocking-a-... "The challenge is not data scarcity, but rather barriers to ... utilizing existing high-quality data resources." also see associated funding call ifp.org/rfp-launch/
Unlocking a Million Times More Data for AI | IFP
ifp.orgEmerging from being "down in the technical weeds" of #atproto is a little mashup of @semble.so & WayFinder (wayfinders.network) Semble team released "open collections" this week - here we explore the "private & permissioned data" collection, created by @bmann.ca & now with 3 other contributors
standard.site -style lexicon for hosting datasets on atproto? anyone have $500?
I've been thinking about the beauty of open data and how the AT Protocol and wider Atmosphere ecosystem has been recapturing that open data environment that once defined the web. It really does feel special. vale.rocks/posts/atproto-ethos #atproto #ATProtocol
The AT Protocol Harkens An Old Web Ethos
vale.rocks#atproto devs, I know data is public and accessible But we need more tools to help people download their data in *familiar and user-friendly* formats Data ownership is also about enabling people to use and move their data in whatever way they desire, even if they wish to take it outside the protocol
Victoria
I'd argue that having an export tool to fetch the data from the PDSes into familiar data files would be very much appreciated by the general public, both webcomic authors and readers (especially converting the block content into something clean to import anywhere they might desire)
Curated Lists
Useful lists for atproto
vāyumaṇḍala
atproto.camp — A directory of ATProtocol user groups
OpenPDS - AT Protocol PDS Directory
List: Independent PDSes (by Victoria) — Semble
Apps
trueberryless/awesome-atproto
