# There Are No Instances in atproto

DevFeed: [There Are No Instances in atproto](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto-36202.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/>)

Published: 2026-06-19T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Dan Abramov](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dan-abramov.md>)

Topics: [AT Protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/atproto.md>), [Mastodon](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mastodon.md>), [Bluesky](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bluesky-social.md>), [ActivityPub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/activitypub.md>), [RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rss-feed.md>)

Tags: [centralization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/centralization.md>), [mastodon](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mastodon.md>), [rss](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rss.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>)

## AI overview

This opinion article argues that atproto has no equivalent of Mastodon instances. It distinguishes content hosting from aggregation and presents atproto as a different approach to decentralizing social networks, where applications project content rather than communities hosting users and their identities.

## Source excerpt

Like RSS and Google Reader.