@me is a new app by Nate to explain and explore how data connects into many different kinds of apps on ATProto in an accessible, visual way.
(WIP) thing intended to show "yo atproto gives you a global identity and here are apps that use it" want to make the logged-out experience informative too so i can share w uninitiated. i know @pdsls.dev exists (and rocks!), my end goal here is maximally accessible "look ma no silos!" at-me.fly.dev
@me - explore your atproto identity
visualize your decentralized identity and see what apps have stored data in your personal data server
You can put in any ATProto account handle and explore what apps they've connected with.
A few screenshots are included below
What is this?
Clicking on the what is this? shows this text.
you should own your data
today's social platforms own your data. built 10k followers? wrote years of posts? if you leave, you lose it all. you don't own your network - they do.
what if social media worked like email?
with email, you can switch from gmail to protonmail and keep your contacts. same idea here: your posts and followers live on your own server (called a Personal Data Server). apps like bluesky just connect to it.
see it in action
enter any handle above to see how atproto stores their social data.
this is your data
Clicking on the ? mark gets you this explanation.
this is your data
this visualization shows your Personal Data Server - where your social data actually lives. unlike traditional platforms that lock everything in their database, your posts, likes, and follows are stored here, on infrastructure you control.
each circle represents an app that writes to your space. bluesky for microblogging. whitewind for long-form posts. tangled.org for code hosting. they're all just different views of the same underlying data - your data.
this is what "open social" means: your followers, your content, your connections - they all belong to you, not the app. switch apps anytime and take everything with you. no platform can hold your social graph hostage.
how to explore: click your avatar in the center to see the details of your identity. click any app to browse the records it's created in your repository.
Your personal data server
Clicking on your avatar "you" in the center shows you these details:
Yes, my main account is on a Bluesky mushroom server! TIL that pdsls supports browsing the accounts (dids) on an entire host:
Tour
The app goes through a tour which describes what is on screen.
atproto applications
these apps use your global identity to write public records to your PDS. they can also read records you've created.
View the Source
The source code for the app is on Tangled:
Might be interesting to have a couple of different skins and themes, or add a deploy to Railway option. These are the sorts of remixing experiments that we can all learn from.
And of course, suggested text edits or other features might be of interest to Nate as well!
This was written up by @bmann.ca, who authors a lot of the @atprotocol.dev posts. This ATProto Community leaflet is still pretty empty, just a test post of Jay's talk from ATmosphereConf 2025, including transcript.
Please feel free to get in touch if you have a write up for the ATProto Community that you'd like to share, and we can hand you a Leaflet edit link to write in.