just watched jake lazaroff talk about using at protocol for things way beyond just social media. the main idea is moving toward a
local-first architecture where your pds handles the data storage while the shared network manages all the syncing. it sounds like a great way to stop relying on app-specific backends that can go offline whenever they want. he even showed some cool experiments with collaborative tools that work because of this setup.
it basically makes apps much harder to kill by centralized servers . i wonder if this could actually replace the way we build almost all web-based productivity software. does anyone know if there are any good libraries for implementing this at:// logic yet?
link:
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/07/atproto-webapp/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global