Series: Apps as Views, Not Vaults | Guido X Jansen
Your data lives in a bookshelf you own; apps are just the views that read from it. A seven-part series on what the AT Protocol flips, what it doesn't, and why the boring architecture really does impact you.
Series: Apps as Views, Not Vaults | Guido X Jansen
Your data lives in a bookshelf you own; apps are just the views that read from it. A seven-part series on what the AT Protocol flips, what it doesn't, and why the boring architecture really does impact you.
7 Apps You Can Unlock With Your Bluesky Account - Loam
There’s a whole world of apps growing on top of Bluesky. It’s called the Atmosphere, and you already have the key to all of them.
Games apps | at-store
Games apps grouped around a shared workflow, use case, or capability across the Bluesky ecosystem.
Who actually owns your network?
Every time I moved a community to a new platform, the exit cost members and history. Platforms come and go; the lock-in architecture underneath is why. Part of 'Apps as Views, Not Vaults': the things you make are yours; apps are just the viewers.
File Over App: A Philosophy for Digital Longevity
My take on the 'file over app' philosophy and why it’s essential for keeping my data resilient and built to last.
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
All apps | at-store
Browse the full Bluesky app catalog and filter by search, popularity, or newest listings.
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.pubBluesky isn’t just one app. It’s part of a much larger ecosystem, and your account is the key. Here are 7 useful apps you can log into with your @bsky.app account that you should know about.
7 Apps You Can Unlock With Your Bluesky Account
storm.leaflet.pubAs @ricardo.bsky.social might put it, the infrastructure behind the Bluesky app is becoming more like a product (as opposed to a project). A natural evolution would be to charge Atmosphere app developers who piggyback on it and would like to have standard commercial SLAs and technical support.
AT Protocol Developers
Today we’re launching Bluesky Protocol Services, a new brand and website for the infrastructure Bluesky operates. And Jetstream v2, the best way for developers to use atproto at scale, now with network replay. atproto.com/blog/introducing-bluesky-prot…
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.
this is a psa , if you visit a website that offers to let you sign in with atmosphere/bluesky you should click the little question mark in the top right. if it says "transition:generic", that app can do ANYTHING with the data in your account, short of dms and actually deleting/moving your account..
Bluesky Apps / Clients
These do not hold their own records but instead use the bluesky records. They are not likely not appviews (subject to change since things keep changing)
spaces-alpha.host.bsky.network
Ouranos
Anisota for Bluesky & the Atmosphere
Latinsky
Medsky
Northsky
