EDIT: The Decentralized Deliberation Standard (DDS) now has its own Working Group. Learn more at dds.xyz. We've been building Agora — a platform for public deliberation using Polis-style clustering — for a while now. Along the way, we've written about what we think about Nostr, AT Protocol, Polis, ...
Decentralized Deliberation Stack (DDS)
A W3C Community Group working draft for an open stack for sovereign, verifiable, interoperable, and resilient deliberation.
Agora Citizen Network
Agora helps people overcome disagreement and find consensus, for more democratic and efficient decision-making.
Agora Citizen Network
Agora helps people overcome disagreement and find consensus, for more democratic and efficient decision-making.
AT Protocol - AT Protocol
The AT Protocol is an open, decentralized, and high-performance network for building social applications.
Agora Federation
Democratic infrastructure for the Fediverse — deliberation, decision, and consequence over ActivityPub. - Agora Federation
Web of Trust | Nostr Compass
Technical resource for the Nostr protocol. Weekly newsletter covering NIP proposals, client updates, relay developments, and notable code changes.
A peer to peer community platform built on the AT Protocol
Home - Nos: The Human Network
A decentralised mesh of communities and individuals built by and for the people. Nos is social media for humans, not algorithms.
@proto @fosdem · Luma
The AT Protocol is an open, decentralized network for building social applications. https://atproto.com/ Start your FOSDEM with a convivial evening of casual…
Decentralization Trade Offs in AT Protocol and ActivityPub DWeb Camp 2026
Christine Lemmer Webber is lead author and co-editor of the W3C ActivityPub specification. Daniel Holmgren is Head of Protocol at Bluesky, working on the AT Protocol specification at the IETF. Join us for a discussion on decentralization trade-offs and other design decisions in the two protocols, and what that means for different architectures, structures, and even future points of convergence. Moderated by Boris Mann
shreyan - Nostr and ATProto
This post could’ve been titled “Nostr vs ATProto”, but that really isn’t what I wanted to do here. While I will be comparing and contrasting them a lot, and that’s kind of even the point of writing this, I didn’t want to really pit the two against each other at all, and especially not with the title. I also want to try avoiding commenting on the differences between the communities that have formed on the protocols and their apps, although I definitely will be looking at the philosophical differences between the two a lot - also kind of the point of writing this. This also isn’t a super deep technical post, though it assumes familiarity with technical concepts. I also might come back to edit parts of it and add more later.
shreyan - Nostr and ATProto
This post could’ve been titled “Nostr vs ATProto”, but that really isn’t what I wanted to do here. While I will be comparing and contrasting them a lot, and that’s kind of even the point of writing this, I didn’t want to really pit the two against each other at all, and especially not with the title. I also want to try avoiding commenting on the differences between the communities that have formed on the protocols and their apps, although I definitely will be looking at the philosophical differences between the two a lot - also kind of the point of writing this. This also isn’t a super deep technical post, though it assumes familiarity with technical concepts. I also might come back to edit parts of it and add more later.
Why Online Democracies Fail - Eclectic Corvine Muses
A compendium to my upcoming proposal for community infrastructure within the AT Protocol
Nostr - Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays
Nostr is an inclusive communication commons. A simple standard that defines a scalable architecture of clients and servers that can be used to spread information freely. Not controlled by any corporation or government, anyone can build on Nostr and anyone can use it.