Thanks to all who responded to my call for suggestions!
AT Protocol: explanation for non-techies? - Debbie's Blatherings - by Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Working on an explanation without tech jargon, for fellow creatives
AT Protocol, Part 2: Explanation For Non-Techies
Thanks to all who responded to my call for suggestions!
“Are Protocols Elite?” in Rythms – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider
For a taste of what I’ve been working on this season, I have a new, tiny-little essay in the in-house journal of our Center for Media, Religion, and Culture, Rhythms: “Are Protocols Elite?” Based on a collab with Avery Edenfield. https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/2025/11/06/rhythms-fall-2025-counter-media
Magic Paper
Working notes by Michael Nielsen, November 2017. Followup to (but doesn't require) my notes on Chalktalk.
Strangeness, illegibility, hardness
An update from our Protocol Fiction special interest group
Casey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025
AT Protocol builder manifesto - WIP, comments wanted!
working title: "Why AT Protocol Will Win: A Manifesto for Building in the Atmosphere"
The AT Protocol's interesting design - LittleBit
Bluesky's backend was made to be more than a social network
Protocol Reader - Summer of Protocols
The Protocol Reader The Protocol Reader is an 358-page book (currently only available as an epub) comprising 26 foundational essays by 31 authors from the Summer of Protocols program, carefully edited and sequenced to introduce you to the fascinating new discipline of Protocol Studies. It can serve as
Seeking feedback from AT Protocol gurus out there! I'm hoping to put together a visual explainer post geared toward fellow non-techie creatives (esp #KidLit authors & illustrators). Instead of multi-post long thread on Bluesky, I'm using @leaflet.pub. debbieohi.leaflet.pub/3mpdy5a53z22u
AT Protocol: explanation for non-techies?
debbieohi.leaflet.pubthanks Maria! A little bird tells me the epilogue in my piece describes exactly what happened (someone at bsky allegedly read my article and increased their rate limit). I have a name, I need to see if they're willing to go on the record. So even the fix allegedly didn't come from W engineers LOOOL
Women in Tech
Communication Systems
Alternative communication systems with an emphasis on decentralization
AT Protocol links
Somewhere to store interesting AT Protocol sites and resources.
pub search
The AT Protocol Harkens An Old Web Ethos
at-store | Apps on the Atmosphere
Open Evnt Documentation
Lexicon Garden - ATProtocol Lexicon Browser
Standard.site Validator
AT Protocol apps (by あ) — Semble
atmosphere.community
Social context aggregation (by Wesley Finck) — Semble
ATProto, Activitypub and FOSS applications (by CN bug hrs) — Semble
Why Cosmik Network? (by Wesley Finck) — Semble
Science Must Decentralize
