This is a quick response to this post @anniesexton.com on Bluesky Please do edit and point to other resources If you have an existing database powered app, here is a rough guide to thinking about migrating to atproto Figure out which data is private, this will stay in your database Figure out what the main data is. Look around for an existing lexicon or create your own. When creating new records, write them to the user PDS. You’ll need to start aggregating your lexicon types from the ne...
ATProto Standards Bodies | Sam Clemente | Offprint
How do we go about maintaining lexicons across apps?
Rashid Aziz: Extending ATproto for private data - ATProto Community
How do we talk about atproto to non-developers?
The beauty of AT Protocol is that all of your data from different apps is available on your PDS, your own folder on the internet containing your stuff as JSON. This means that you can switch which app you use to view that data, without losing anything. It also makes it very easy to make connections between data stored using different lexicons, or just display activity in one place. Sifa does a nice job of this on your profile page. For web developers, and people who understand webhosting, the concept is reasonably easy to understand. I know that any atproto app I join is going to store data in my PDS, any other people will be able to see it.
Lexicon Embeds Overview
ATProto’s inside out structure provides an opportunity for open, permissionless building on top of any component in the network, including its extensible data schema definition system, Lexicons. One of the opportunities this presents is users sharing their data and records with multiple apps. Those apps may be direct substitutions (different clients for microblogging say), or apps that use that data in a variety of ways, such as Popfeed an app which aggregates posts about a variety of media ty...
@me - explore your atproto identity
visualize your decentralized identity and see what apps have stored data in your Personal Data Server
@me - explore your atproto identity
visualize your decentralized identity and see what apps have stored data in your Personal Data Server
ATProto Apps with their own records as of 2025-11-20 - grouped by some general types - Hilary's Leaflet
This is not a comprehensive list but it is pretty thorough. There are at least 10 more I need to dig into and probably add here later today maybe. This does NOT include PDSs, Appviews, and clients. The goal was for it to be a list of apps that have their own records in the PDS.
ATProto Apps with their own records as of 2025-11-20 - grouped by some general types - Hilary's Leaflet
This is not a comprehensive list but it is pretty thorough. There are at least 10 more I need to dig into and probably add here later today maybe. This does NOT include PDSs, Appviews, and clients. The goal was for it to be a list of apps that have their own records in the PDS.
Odoo has this toggle of showing their apps / what apps you can build or replace. They list 40K+ "community apps" And yes, also open source github.com/odoo/odoo With private data, likely good opportunities for atproto, too.
@atpota.to and @dame.is, we were talking about making an ATProto-powered app directory on the community forum and someone found your atproto.garden and some records lying around. Are you interested in sharing your lexicons or talking about what a simple directory lexicon might look like?
A community app lexicon
discourse.atprotocol.communityThe #atproto AppView I've been working on needs to store more and more private data. However, I don't want to wait for Spaces to be ready. I'm gonna need to do some data migrations once Spaces land 😅
ATmospheric Apps
Things that use ATProto to create their own records (NOT Bluesky clients / Appviews)
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