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AT Protocol

Decentralized social protocol centered on user-owned data and portable graphs.

At a glance:

First seen:2026-04-29

Last seen:2026-04-29

Times seen:1

Website:atproto.com

The short version

Decentralized social protocol centered on user-owned data and portable graphs.

Why it caught our attention

Commenters kept returning to it as the architecture behind data portability and app interoperability.

Where it surfaced on Hacker News

2026-04-29

Editorial paraphrase

HN compared it to email and RSS, highlighted PDS hosting, and discussed moving social graphs between apps.

At Protocol: Building the Social Internet