From Attention to Intention - The Open Garden

Exploring business models for atproto and the open social web

App creator pledges against enshittification

While researching business models that could work on atproto there are some obvious ones that won’t work on a technical/architectural level. Like you can’t really monetize the data in the PDS because it’s all completely open (as long as there’s no permissioned data, but probably not even after that). That in itself already takes away a lot of room/incentive for enshittification (which is great), since when you do users can create or move to another app. But still, I kept encountering models/ta...