We all know by now that I believe in the lexicon black market and an enjoy illegal atproto records. It's not my fault that Bluesky PBC allowed for such shenanigans! If the good lord had intended for us to walk, she wouldn't have invented roller skates.
ATproto Wrapped — your year on the ATmosphere
Drop a Bluesky handle and we'll pull the entire repo from your PDS and turn every lexicon — posts, likes, scrobbles, the long-tail stuff — into a magazine-style spread.
The Technological Poison Pill: How ATProtocol Encourages Competition, Resists Evil Billionaires, Lock-In & Enshittification
Disclosure: I’m on the board of Bluesky, so feel free to take as many grains of salt as you want in reading it, even though part of this is cheering on a new entrant looking to build an alternative…
Not Everything Is For You - Personal Ethics & Thoughts
[blacksky makes private posts for its community] white atproto devs: oh my god this is vendor lock-in this is so bad for the atmosphere!!!!
crate.social — publish structured records to your ATProto PDS
Crate is a custom-lexicon publishing service for ATProto. Define your record types, import from anywhere, query from everywhere.
I learned some things about atproto and Bluesky that I didn't know before. Maybe you did know them. I write them down, just in case you didn't.
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About AT Protocol and Bluesky - Stuff Rob Wrote
blog.ricci.ioThe ATProto community built a ton of great features and products over the past year. For our next trick, let's mature them into products and businesses.
Mosh Lee
(2/n) A feature solves one problem well — even delightfully well. But features get copied easily or absorbed into larger products. They have no distribution or adoption model. If your whole thing can become a pane in someone else's app, it's a feature.
"atProtocol" was previously trademarked by another company. bluesky pbc now owns it, but it should probably be handed off ASAP. but details TBD. IMHO if the power could be removed from any party (eg, via clever licensing) that would be better than using it as leverage even by a "good" org
