Wondering if using "credible exit" when talking about atproto will confuse/mislead people how atproto works under the hood?
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This is a radically different idea than the advocacy I’ve seen for “data portability” and ”data sovereignty”. It’s a *restructuring* of power rather than small adjustments to existing structures. atproto and local-first, both in their own ways, demonstrate what such a restructuring can look like.
Mar 11, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Credible exit
To avoid lock in, you need the ability for the user to credibly exit.
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you know, the stuff that makes sense when you work on ATProto but makes zero sense for everyone else
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Adversarial PLC directory migration - microcosm
Contingency planning: what's our credible failover for the centralized underpinning of ATProto identities?
Adversarial PLC directory migration - microcosm
Contingency planning: what's our credible failover for the centralized underpinning of ATProto identities?
Behold, the official release of my "simultaneously protocol argument and shitpost*" article: How can ATproto communities have credible exit from—that is, "can yeet away"—their hosting platforms? And how do small fuck-ass sites help? essentialrandomness.com/posts/the-concierge-and-the-v… *100/10 endorsement
AT-Communities #1: the Concierge, the Vault, and the Fuck-ass Astro Website – Essential Randomness
www.essentialrandomness.comatproto is actually a massive socioeconomic experiment in which we test the hypothesis "contributors to the common good who deserve success should be able to find it" and initial results are looking good
Devin Gaffney
Excited to announce that the Graze team is joining @flipboard.com! We're thrilled to be working with such a stellar team continuing to build the next era of the attention economy. Read more below:
