What I am learning from this outage is that if you were naive enough to believe that the atproto overview docs and architecture diagrams presented a true view of how bits of software rely on each other (🤚) you have a very distorted view of how how the network actually works.
Aug 16, 2026 at 4:53 PM
ATProto Architecture
Visual summary of the AT Protocol architecture: PDS, AppView, identity, records, lexicons.
Understanding ATProtoFans: A Technical Deep Dive into Verifiable Creator Support - ATProtoFans Blog
Atproto for distributed systems engineers - AT Protocol
In this article we're going to explore atproto from the perspective of distributed backend engineering.
Understanding Atproto - AT Protocol Docs - AT Protocol
Dive deeper into the concepts behind the AT Protocol.
Welcome to the new atproto.com - AT Protocol
We've updated just about everything about atproto.com to make it easier for developers to just build things.
There's lots I haven't yet understood about atproto, but I simply won't do the standard.site thing whilst it offers a worse UX than… not doing it.
Guido X Jansen
It keeps confusing me that the main call to action in these cards (the button) does NOT go to the article but to the main website Is it just me that finds this weird...? The main visual CTA for a card about an article should go to that article no...?
Imagine all the times you’ve downloaded a one-off app for a conference where you made all valuable connections with colleagues only to never use the app again. We could integrate the conference experience into your professional networks on the Atmosphere. ATproto can make networking so much better.
Ariel M. (she/her)
conferences conferences conferences cc @richferro.com @mariaa.bsky.social we deserve better than 2-star rating conference apps lmao
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
My take on the "explaining atproto" discourse is that all the UX/filesystem/etc metaphors are still very verbose and that you can explain the same idea in a lot less words: It separates data from apps, so any app can use data from any other app. That fits in a tweet, with other sentences around it.
Very cool project connecting atproto with the Underlay knowledge graph protocol "[The Underlay] is an archive. [atproto] is a wire. Together they give a collection both permanence and real-time distribution." And check out these neat #ATScience examples too! underlay.org/blog/2026-04-28-atproto-integ…
Very cool project connecting atproto with the Underlay knowledge graph protocol "[The Underlay] is an archive. [atproto] is a wire. Together they give a collection both permanence and real-time distribution." And check out these neat #ATScience examples too! underlay.org/blog/2026-04-28-atproto-integ…
