2630 concepts in 44 topics

Apps & Products

Specific applications, services, and commercial or community projects built on AT Protocol or referenced as exemplars.

Apps & Clients

Named clients, forks, and app experiences across the ecosystem, especially those that present protocol data in distinctive ways.

Developer Tooling

Libraries, SDKs, APIs, runtime helpers, MCP servers, and code-generation tools that help builders integrate with the protocol.

Social Graph

Following, followers, lists, starter packs, graph visualization, onboarding, and migration of social connections between services.

Sync, Relays & PDS

The network layer that moves data between personal data stores, relays, app views, and mirrors across the ecosystem.

Identity & DIDs

Identifiers, handles, PLC, DIDs, verification, recovery, and cross-account identity binding across the ecosystem.

Decentralization

Philosophies and mechanisms for federation, permissionlessness, portability, exit, and resistance to lock-in or central control.

Schemas & Lexicons

Schema languages, lexicons, validation, versioning, translation, and compatibility strategies across changing data models.

Protocol Standards

Standards bodies, working groups, and formal protocol machinery that shape interoperability and future evolution.

Research & Academia

Academic workflows, scholarly communication, research methods, open science, and the migration of researchers and institutions to new social infrastructure.

Science Data

Scientific datasets, repositories, instruments, metadata, and data-discovery infrastructure used to move research outputs onto the protocol.

AT Protocol Core

Foundational AT Protocol concepts covering the ecosystem, app protocol, records, sync, and the main architectural split between data and apps.

Moderation & Safety

Content moderation, labels, blocks, reports, labelers, community notes, and trust-and-safety operations and tooling.

Privacy & Security

Cryptography, anonymity, secure channels, attestation, privacy-by-design, and protections against surveillance or impersonation.

AI & Agents

Language models, agent harnesses, memory, tool use, automation, and the ways AI is being integrated into social and research workflows.

Media & Journalism

Newsrooms, media institutions, journalism economics, audience development, and the changing distribution of reporting on platforms.

DevOps & Hosting

Cloud, servers, proxies, databases, backups, deployment, caching, and the practical operations of running resilient services.

Community Projects

Volunteer-run, community-owned, or local commons projects that steward feeds, calendars, moderation, and civic or cultural infrastructure.

Feeds & Curation

Custom feeds, ranking, finite scrolling, priority rules, discovery surfaces, and human or probabilistic curation strategies.

Web UI & UX

Interface design, browser behavior, design systems, cues, microcopy, and user experience patterns for web and mobile clients.

Business Models

Market structures, funding strategies, economic incentives, and monetization models for social and research infrastructure.

Developer Workflows

Version control, pull requests, stacked changes, linting, builds, CI/CD, package management, and the mechanics of shipping software safely.

Records & Events

The underlying record model of AT Protocol, including commit events, updates, deletions, and durable references between records.

Social Organization

Community structure, roles, relationships, mutual aid, norms, stewardship, and the social work of coordination and belonging.

Governance & Policy

Corporate governance, law, regulation, public policy, and institutional decision-making around platforms and infrastructure.

Journalism Discovery

Story curation, audience growth, and the design of news and commentary feeds that make journalism easier to find and support.

Localization & I18n

Translation workflows, locale handling, language-specific UI, and the practical problems of making software usable across languages and regions.

Open Science

Open scientific infrastructure, modular publishing, repositories, preprints, and the push to make research more reusable and public.

Public Space & Culture

Shared social rituals, community atmosphere, memes, humor, and cultural practices that give online spaces a lived-in feel.

Creator Economy

Creator monetization, subscriptions, sponsorships, patronage, loyal fans, and business models that support independent publishing.

Video & Short Form

Short-form and long-form video, live streaming, watch modes, archival playback, and video-specific platform design.

Translations & L10n

Language, translation, and localization as social and technical work, including non-English communities and multilingual interface design.

Media History

Historical references about media systems, platform transitions, browser history, and the evolution of networked publishing.

Data Modeling

General principles for representing, transforming, and preserving meaning in heterogeneous data across domains.

Retrieval & Search

Indexing, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, clustering, search APIs, and structured ways of finding relevant information.

Music

Music production, rights, metadata, scrobbling, listening communities, and creator-owned music distribution models.

Images, Annotations & Provenance

Image matching, perceptual hashing, claims, timestamping, OCR, and other mechanisms for annotating media with evidence and history.

Ecology & Metaphors

Natural-world metaphors, ecological systems, and philosophical images used to explain resilience, community, and design.

Policy & Law

Legal regimes, regulation, liability, privacy law, platform rules, and public-sector governance shaping networked systems.

Community Identity

Identity performance, pronouns, badges, artist identity, queer and trans identity, and the politics of naming oneself in public.

Geography & Places

Cities, regions, jurisdictions, territories, and local geographies referenced as places of work, hosting, or community identity.

Public Safety

Fire service software, emergency response data, dispatch, inspections, and the operational systems that support public safety work.

Conference Context

Concepts naming the conference, host institutions, logistics, and community norms around the event itself.

Knowledge Graphs

Graph-based representations of claims, evidence, discourse, and linked knowledge used for research and browsing.