this is the thing atproto fixes

Can everyone building on atproto please answer this question? 😇

atproto fixes this

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.

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 started writing one thing and got off on this tangent so now I guess there are two things? anyways atproto feels special in a way I tried to put into words

The fundamental strength of ATProto — and why I think it'll last — is that it is designed first and foremost to be built upon, by anyone, for any reason, rather than locking into one specific paradigm of its maintainers' choosing. Also tbh sex workers are the social media Mandate of Heaven, so.

Too many of y’all get the shape of atproto fundamentally incorrect, thinking it’s about “data ownership,” but it’s literally never been about that, and if you keep banging that drum, you’ll miss the point, just like we have every other time.

An actual mod made by me?? For the ATproto??? no way

everything is a nail and atproto is my hammer

atproto devs, read this:

atproto solves this

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