--- title: Open Social — overreacted | daily.dev description: Explores the concept of "open social" through the AT Protocol, drawing parallels between how open source transformed software development and how decentralized... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/open-social-overreacted-hejczv43l twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Open Social — overreacted | daily.dev og:description: Explores the concept of "open social" through the AT Protocol, drawing parallels between how open source transformed software development and how decentralized... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/open-social-overreacted-hejczv43l og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/HEJCZV43L.png og:image:alt: Open Social — overreacted og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Open Social — overreacted **[Overreacted](https://daily.dev/sources/overreacted)** · 21 min read · 36 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary Explores the concept of "open social" through the AT Protocol, drawing parallels between how open source transformed software development and how decentralized social networks could transform social media. The protocol enables users to own their social data in personal repositories while still enabling aggregation features like feeds and notifications. Users can migrate between platforms without losing their social graph, and applications can interoperate by sharing data formats. This approach aims to solve the vendor lock-in problem of current social media platforms where user data becomes trapped in proprietary databases. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@al\_v\_a\_ro** · 1 upvotes > This was very interesting and makes a lot of sense. Also to see, that the implementation is already evolving and is not just an idea. > > On the other side I am thinking if there are also some privacy implications since everything is public for ever. Well... While i think about it, you can take down your repo... But maybe somebody else has copied it already (since the streams and backing it up is already implemented). But i think this issue exists for all other apps as well... **@kkurko** · 0 upvotes > This article made me download Bluesky 🦋 **@akkitto** · 0 upvotes > NOSTR ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Why I'm betting on ATProto \(and why you should, too\)](https://daily.dev/posts/why-i-m-betting-on-atproto-and-why-you-should-too--lm4awkw56) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [A Social Filesystem — overreacted](https://daily.dev/posts/a-social-filesystem-overreacted-kyrf3icpd) · Overreacted · 3 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#social-media](https://daily.dev/tags/social-media), [#decentralization](https://daily.dev/tags/decentralization) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/open-social-overreacted-hejczv43l) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Open Social — overreacted","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/open-social-overreacted-hejczv43l","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/open-social-overreacted-hejczv43l"},"datePublished":"2025-09-26T16:00:40.498Z","dateModified":"2025-09-26T16:01:05.888Z","description":"Explores the concept of \"open social\" through the AT Protocol, drawing parallels between how open source transformed software development and how decentralized...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/b04c64215e2c273c7f578c76aa27d407?_a=AQAEulh","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/b04c64215e2c273c7f578c76aa27d407?_a=AQAEulh","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Overreacted","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Overreacted","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/e2063b0ecb234cf28fcd0460f7526b75","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/overreacted"},"commentCount":3,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/open-social-overreacted-hejczv43l","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":36},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}],"keywords":"social-media,decentralization","timeRequired":"PT21M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Overreacted","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/overreacted"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Open Social — overreacted"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/open-social-overreacted-hejczv43l","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"This was very interesting and makes a lot of sense. 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