Post-appitalism rejects the super-app as a meaningful alternative to todays app-based production of software. An app that becomes so big that it starts sucking in smaller apps perpetuates the same dynamics no matter how well integrated the smaller apps can be.

what is our “moat” on atproto even? what keeps people using a specific atproto app vs a fully compatible other app?

I think we underestimate the power of user interfaces (and thus apps) and how such power is concentrated in the hands of the few who are able to produce such interfaces.

I saw some talk about "everything apps" and it got me thinking a little bit about it. With the Atmosphere I feel like a really cool part about it is that we can make all of our apps "everything" apps. It's not "my app's data" or "your app's data" anymore. We can color outside the lines.

The analogy I went with is that your data is a display cabinet you keep, and apps are just the views into it. Swap the app, your stuff stays put. Bluesky is one app, not the whole thing. Apps as views, not vaults.

Who cares if it’s vibe coded It’s either a good app or a bad app 🙃 humans can make bad websites too @standard-reader.app is basically entirely authored by ai (it’s also the best most full featured thing I’ve ever made)

the universal app is technocratic & soulless without the contextual/communal/artistic apps where the actual socializing happens & all those apps are confusing & overwhelming without the universal app to bind them together idk curious your thoughts?

Why are people talking about an everything app? Also what do you mean by everything? Because the real everything app is the mobile OS. Do we mean a handful of social/information modalities + payments? I mean that’s cool if the ux makes sense and better than separate apps. It’s not “everything”.

web apps are more aligned with the values of atproto than native apps