ATProto - there is no killer app, there is a killer ecosystem

Excellent @tgspodcast.bsky.social episode, finding myself pausing every minute to take notes. "What sorts of systems are going to make it through the bottlenecks of the 21st c?“ TLDR collective robustness beats individual optimization Once (if?) funders get this, atproto will see investments

monopodial -> sympodial growth apps -> ecosystems "Monopodials put all their energy into growing tall quickly, whereas the sympodial plants hedge with multiple different leading edges, which is more resilient. The next high-status career will be sympodial." substack.com/@davidlang/note/c-209012857?u…

atproto idea (that’s also just a general want, but atproto-fied): basically browser.horse + unclutter.it with annotation and highlighting via margin.at, articles can be found via standard.site à la potatoes.app or via semble.so collections with a touch of alfread app design/goals/features

"we're building rainforests, not skyscrapers" diverse ecosystems with lots of different life forms and symbiotic relationships and growth! @schlage.town got me feeling hopeful, talking about building an Atmospheric (sub) stack

SO cool to see features on our @semble.so roadmap (auto sync from bsky to Semble) getting covered by ecosystem development. Ecosystems are rising tides that lift all apps and this is just the tip of the iceberg of their potential github.com/cosmik-network/semble/issues/…

The competition has billions of dollars, billions of users and deep political connections. Quit the crabs-in-a-barrel mentality if you care about all of our collective work meaning something in this lifetime.

Community is the only moat.

I'm building on atproto because I think that a single social network has essentially no shot of dethroning the current tech monopolies. But an open ecosystem of interoperating apps is so infinitely more interesting than legacy social that it seems almost inevitable it will win

the application (app) model of software can, should, and must be abolished.

daniel: "I don't think we need 10x developers to build great things. I think we need 10x teams – groups of people who care about the same problem, who iterate together, and who make each other better" 🤍

ATProto is a post-app protocol trapped in a world of apps. I can feel it all around the edges of the network.

everyone trying to build an audience on non-ATProto-backed platforms right now is starting to feel like everyone that went big-in on AOL circa 2000

The killer app of atproto is interop

#ATProto is giving Major Evolutionary Transition vibes: "(1) a new form of cooperation with almost total interdependence among individuals ... that creates a new functional entity, and (2) a ... new form of communication to support this cooperation." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Major_Transitions_in…