Getting Started with AT Protocol: Essential Resources

Essential Resources for Getting Started with at Protocol

Getting Started with AT Protocol: Essential Resources

Tierney Cyren, a Bluesky developer, compiles a curated list of resources for developers exploring the AT Protocol, the decentralized social networking protocol behind Bluesky. The guide covers foundational articles, including Dan Abramov's "A Social Filesystem" and "There Are No Instances in atproto," as well as tools for data management, utilities like pdsls and ATStore, and notable projects built on the protocol, such as BeaconBits and plyr.fm. It emphasizes the protocol's data ownership principles and highlights the potential for diverse applications beyond social media.

Fundamentally, the AT Protocol is about data ownership.
  1. alfanick

    Oh, it's some different AT protocol (some distributed mambojambo) than Hayes AT protocol.

  2. smasher164

    One thing I'm wondering is how ATproto can be integrated with voice/video chat. Would you combine it with Matrix, XMPP, or some custom protocol?

  3. radicalriddler

    Spaces really is gonna bring all the features that HN is critical about AT platforms like Tangled.

    Private repos are now on the horizon. Huzzah!

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