Resources

An explanation for beginners about the Atmosphere ecosystem.

"So they need to be interchangeable." Bluesky's CTO Paul Frazee claims that we need interchangeable, opinionated products built on neutral protocols to shape new ways for a social internet.

An article for non-technical people how social media evolved over the last 15 years and how ATProto is a promising new area to fix the things that feel broken.

Rudy is the founder of Blacksky, a social media community of Black people, that was created on the ATProto protocol initiated by Bluesky. He talks about how he builds social media technology for his community to thrive and how a mutual aid philosophy and community building makes this work, also on a financial level.

Some ideas on how to fund social web projects

An organisation that wants to liberate people's networks from their platforms. They build Bridgyfed, a tool to post on both Bluesky and the Fediverse

Mike Masnick, one of the most interesting internet thinkers, talks about the decentralisation of technology as a democratic prerequisite

Joe Basser from spark.so writes about some basic concepts and philosophies of ATProto in an thought-provoking way

Mike Masnick, who came up with the idea of 'protocols, not platforms', explains the advantages of the AT Protocol.

Dan Abromov explains how the basic philosophy of the internet is open, but how the social layer we added to it became much more closed. With ATProto we try to shape a new technical base to open up the social web. Dan is very good at explaining more complex ideas in an understandable way

A longer text about how short posts on Bluesky can be combined with more long form blog texts on Leaflet and how all of this fits well together in the ATProto ecosystem.

Some tips how to use Bluesky more from a marketing perspective

Dan Abramov explains the technical philosophy and building blocks of ATProto at a developer conference. It is also understandable for a non-technical audience and Dan is a great storyteller.

Interesting comparison between Bluesky and Mastodon from one of the most prolific LGBTQ voices in this ecosystem

Basic principles and philosophy of the ATProtocol

A comparison between ATProto and ActivityPub and their basic assumptions. This website is also a great resource to keep up with both ATProto and Activitypub, especially if you subscribe to the newsletter

Long read by The New Yorker about Jay Graber and Bluesky

The 'gossip' article about how Jay Graber sends a message to Zuckerberg with her t-shirt choice

An analysis of the the first ATProto community gathering in Seattle in March 2025

SXSW talk with Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky PBC

Laurens writes very deeply about the governance part that is often left open in technical protocols

Insightful analysis of the new social media landscape, mainly about the ATProto ecosystem, but also mentioning Mastodon and the Fediverse. A very good first read to understand the situation