The free, open-source alternative to Meetup. Create groups and events for your community — no fees, no ads, community-owned forever.
OpenMeet – Free, Open-Source Alternative to Meetup
The free, open-source alternative to Meetup. Create groups and events for your community — no fees, no ads, community-owned forever.
Spinning Up Your Own Corner of the ATmosphere - Mostly Protocols
How to set up your own PDS from scratch - server, domain, email, migration, and all the little details that actually matter when you're trying to run your own piece of the ATmosphere.
OpenPDS - AT Protocol PDS Directory
AT Protocol PDS servers with open registration. Data from atproto-scraping, enriched daily.
Protobase
Managed AT Protocol PDS infrastructure for your brand. Give your users a home on the Atmosphere — we handle the heavy lifting.
PDS.RIP - Ephemeral Sandbox PDS
Welcome to a public sandbox PDS for the AT Protocol network. Create an account, test the protocol, build cool stuff.
Compose | Taproot
Create a new AT Protocol record on your PDS. Prefill via at.new links, save drafts on your device, and publish with one click.
Compose | Taproot
Create a new AT Protocol record on your PDS. Prefill via at.new links, save drafts on your device, and publish with one click.
Non-bluesky Public Hosted PDSs - Hilary's Leaflet
Existing public hosted PDS options. This also has some things I hope that anyone hosting a PDS will look at. (Backups, account creation and migration will be covered separately.)
Setting Up Your Own PDS Is Frighteningly Easy
A PDS, or Personal Data Server, is kind of the core thing behind atproto. The idea is that it's a server that stores all your atproto data and cryptographic keys. Most people just use Bluesky's PDS right now, but this is probably the most commonly self-hosted part of the ecosystem:
at://alternatives | AT protocol alternatives for popular products
Discover AT Protocol alternatives for popular products and services. Browse decentralized apps that give you control over your data, identity, and social connections.
Avails — Group Scheduling
Open-source group scheduling on the AT Protocol. Your polls live in your Bluesky account.
Manton Reece - Introducing the Micro.blog PDS
I’ve started rolling out an AT Protocol PDS — personal data server — for new Micro.blog users. In the Bluesky world, a PDS is what stores your posts, follows, photos, and other data from apps. In the same way that creating an account on Micro.blog automatically gives you a fediverse handle, I wanted people to be able to create a Micro.blog account and have everything they needed to sign into Bluesky.
ATProto for distributed systems engineers - AT Protocol
AT Protocol is the tech developed at Bluesky for open social networking. In this article we're going to explore AT Proto from the perspective of distributed backend engineering.
In 2026, @bsky.app is focused on what’s next for open social: bringing together users for conversations around live events, creator and platform monetization, and private state, giving users truly private data while preserving ownership and portability at the protocol level.
