## Notes *ATProtocol* was created as a part of [[BlueSky]] within [[Twitter]]. It powers the [[ATmosphere]], a collection of decentralized social networking services. It was primarily created to avoid storing any data in any private servers. *Twitter* and [[Meta]] operate on the private server model, which means that any content created on their site belongs to them. As an alternative, decentralized social networking services does not store such data. Instead, user-created content gets pushed directly to