Why I'm betting on ATProto (and why you should, too)
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A developer reflects on the problems with mainstream social media and explains why she's investing her time building on ATProto, the decentralized protocol underlying Bluesky. She covers how ATProto works (personal data servers, user-owned repositories, portable social graphs), recaps ATmosphereConf in Vancouver where journalists, scientists, and builders gathered around the protocol, and shares her own ATProto project OpenSocial.community for cross-app community governance. The core argument is that ATProto's architecture structurally prevents the ad-driven engagement spiral that has degraded other platforms, and that data portability gives users genuine ownership and freedom to switch apps without losing their network.
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The problem with social media as it exists todayWhat ATProto actually is (for the uninitiated)ATmosphereConf and the communityWhy I’m going all inSort: