--- title: Why I'm betting on ATProto (and why you should, too) description: A developer reflects on the problems with mainstream social media and explains why she's investing her time building on ATProto, the decentralized protocol... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-i-m-betting-on-atproto-and-why-you-should-too--lm4awkw56 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why I'm betting on ATProto (and why you should, too) | daily.dev og:description: A developer reflects on the problems with mainstream social media and explains why she's investing her time building on ATProto, the decentralized protocol... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-i-m-betting-on-atproto-and-why-you-should-too--lm4awkw56 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lM4aWkw56.png og:image:alt: Why I'm betting on ATProto (and why you should, too) 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. # Why I'm betting on ATProto (and why you should, too) **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 14 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer reflects on the problems with mainstream social media and explains why she's investing her time building on ATProto, the decentralized protocol underlying Bluesky. She covers how ATProto works (personal data servers, user-owned repositories, portable social graphs), recaps ATmosphereConf in Vancouver where journalists, scientists, and builders gathered around the protocol, and shares her own ATProto project OpenSocial.community for cross-app community governance. The core argument is that ATProto's architecture structurally prevents the ad-driven engagement spiral that has degraded other platforms, and that data portability gives users genuine ownership and freedom to switch apps without losing their network. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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