That should be the guiding principle for all atproto "alternatives"

I'm going to "lets build: substack clone on atproto".

Does anyone have a good guide for migrating existing apps/platforms to use ATProto?

now updated my atproto oauth reference from last year! github.com/j4ckxyz/atproto-oauth-referen… - explains why to avoid `transition:generic` AND a skills file for your coding agent!!! github.com/j4ckxyz/atproto-oauth-referen… no reason to not have #atproto oauth anymore!

There are many things being built on atproto. Many of them won’t get adopted or thrive. And yes, many are built without user research. It’s OK? Don’t use things you don’t want to. Promote things you like. And build something yourself if you feel like it. Do it the way YOU want it to be.

anyone have tips for building atproto stuff without a backend ? i’d like to make userinput better, currently it can be kinda slow. looking for best practices i may not have thought of.

Some initial atproto-related learnings from #Rebuild Helsinki 🇫🇮 * most people building apps here have no idea what atproto is, which is a shame since especially when building social apps, atproto is a great starting point for many reasons

while the permissionlessness vector of atproto will certainly enable new things we can't imagine the pattern of "____ but on atproto" is key for taking our daily lives back. a framing i prefer is "i can now do {boringDailyLifeThing} without {shittyExtractiveApp}"

the open ecosystem for atproto makes it super easy for one developer to build a compelling and feature rich application in their free time that cannot possibly be maintained by one developer in their free time

ActivityPub always felt like “I’m creating my own MySpace and you can make yours too if you want”, while AtProto feels more like a revised way to think about how this sort of service should work.

Lexidraw proves it. Atproto does not exist to build something unprecedented out of nothing: it exists to fuse well-known open-source projects into atproto. The key is the data storage layer. Atproto will latch onto anything, like a remora.

I think if you're saying "atproto doesn't need a ____" then you're missing the point. Let people build the things they want to see in the ecosystem that they, themselves, will use. We don't need ten things shaped the exact same way, we need every type of shape.