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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Feb-2026 03:03:39 JST Evan Prodromou

   • dansup
   • David Fleetwood - RG Admin
   • Anuj Ahooja

   @reflex @dansup @quillmatiq I think Anuj's point is that there is a growing ecosystem around ATProto that is not owned or controlled by Bluesky LLC. There are a lot of people in that ecosystem that are just as concerned about decentralization and distribution of control as we are. Many people in the LLC even support that decentralization. It is a serious bummer that it's splitting the social web, but at least we have bridges and multistack services to connect us.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Feb-2026 05:59:56 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • dansup
     • David Fleetwood - RG Admin
     • Boris Mann
     • sheislaurence
     • Anuj Ahooja

     @sheislaurence That is an awesome question. I'm not sure!

     I think @boris has a good landing page here with a lot of links to explore.

     https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/atprotocol/

     @reflex @dansup @quillmatiq

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     sheislaurence (sheislaurence@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Feb-2026 05:59:57 JST sheislaurence

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     • dansup
     • David Fleetwood - RG Admin
     • Anuj Ahooja

     @evan @reflex @dansup @quillmatiq thanks for summarising Evan. Is there an accessible (non-dev) article available to explain the makeup of the ATProto ecosystem and the chances of it not being a target/surviving without Bluesky? As a tech-aware/non-dev person, I am not interested in the respective merits of the actual protocols, more about each's ability to thrive away from VC (dev community size, culture, capitalist power dynamics... what else?)

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     Boris Mann (boris@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Feb-2026 06:54:13 JST Boris Mann

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     • sheislaurence

     @evan @sheislaurence that’s a sort of bookmark on my own site and is pretty protocol focused.

     @sheislaurence I help support a number of ATProto community resources.

     Community blog https://atprotocol.dev and forum https://discourse.atprotocol.community, and I have some collected bookmarks of good articles https://semble.so/profile/bmann.ca/collections/3m5u77miiyf2h

     Fun fact: that Semble site is also ATProto powered and you use your same account to store bookmarks