Emerging 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
Feb 13, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Reading Proposal 0016: What atproto’s “Permissioned Data” Actually Does - Nick's Blog
AT Protocol is public by default. Everything you write goes into a signed, archived, and rebroadcastable repository that anyone can read from and moves throu…
Rashid Aziz: Extending ATproto for private data - ATProto Community
Evaluating permissioned spaces for community contexts - meri's missives
A look at Bluesky's proposed approach to private data on ATProto
Permissioned Data Diary 5: What’s in a Name? - Daniel's Leaflets
In this permissioned data diary, we dive deep into the URI structure for permissioned data on atproto and use it to motivate a bunch of the larger design.
Permissioned Data Diary 5: What’s in a Name? - Daniel's Leaflets
In this permissioned data diary, we dive deep into the URI structure for permissioned data on atproto and use it to motivate a bunch of the larger design.
🪩 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.org
User & Agents
@userandagents.org
We are a community focused on shaping the future of user-agent systems. Our goal is to empower people by designing and building software that provides agency, control, and choice in our digital lives. userandagents.org
I'm only JUST starting to explore @semble.so as a potential research tool but if anyone is curious to follow (I will be making many missteps, just to warn you 😉), you can find my Collections at semble.so/profile/debbieohi.com/collect…
Debbie Ridpath Ohi's collections — Semble
semble.so#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)
@dholms.at motivated me to make a follow up post on Stratos, @transrights.northsky.social approach to permission data on ATproto! This one is a bit of a brief technical overview and as a nice bonus, I've made the code base public.
Stratos: Lets get Technical
chipnick.comatproto for organizing
Privacy (unsorted)
Private & Permissioned Data
ATProto Private & Permissioned data
Curated vs open search
opensocial.group/proposal
Atproto spaces alpha updates
Habitat's road to release: 06 commenting - building [at] habitat
Arbiter Progress Report 4 - Zicklag's Leaflets
Arbiter Progress Report 3 - Zicklag's Leaflets
Arbiter Progress Report 2 - Zicklag's Leaflets
Early results are encouraging: experiences organizing against the surveillance-industrial complex in the ATmosphere and the fediverses
ATmosphere technology to support organizing and activism
atproto for organizing (by Ronen Tamari) — Semble
Building for Organizers - The People Layer
Living Documents on the Feed
ドコモ、Googleへの顧客情報提供で同意得ず 約1万6000件
Data brokers have detailed files on you. Here’s what’s in them — and how it impacts you – The Markup
cblgh/lieu
my hot take is that @semble.so is on par with traditional search engines for atproto related topics (and it's only curated by people!)
Curated retrieval versus open web search in public AI information services: a coverage-trust trade-off
