Atmosphere Roundup

Notes This is mostly intended as a resource that I can point people towards as an introduction to atproto, not for folks who’ve already consumed the koolaid I’ve been excited about the potential of atproto for awhile, initially by the data portability aspect, but more recently I’m digging the idea that it’s essentially a giant public datastore that you can work with for projects What is the Atmosphere? A community. What is it not? Bluesky. That said, Bluesky is a decent starting point for most people. An account there serves as a portable digital identity that you can take elsewhere later. Steve Klabnick has an excellent article, Too many words about DIDs, if you’d like to do a deeper dive. There are other providers starting to creep out of beta, I’ll mention them later. After you’ve created that identity, you don’t even need to actually use Bluesky. You can just use the id to access different applications which store their data in the Atmosphere. Some do their own things, some are…