"ATProto could usher in one of the largest redistributions of wealth in modern history" is an eye opening and not unrealistic claim to make if we all make this thing work.

Does atproto make a company non acquirable? All you buy is an install base that can move, an app view maybe, and the team Without a moat what are you actually buying?

ATProto investment razor: if a team can easily explain their project to an investor coming in cold, they are not building something native. ATProto is weird. Any native life-form will look weird to an outsider. 🧵

My most controversial atproto take is that I don’t care that much about interoperability

Every lexicon, every "app" on ATProto is a "yes and" waiting for your contribution to the vision. We're all first party developers.

the hard pill to swallow is that 99% of people do not care about whether an app is on "atproto" or if its "decentralized" so long as it works you will not sell the decentralization aspect if your app runs like shit and isn't fun to use even moreso if it's VC Claude slop which is 90% of atproto ww

Have had this conversation more than once that essentially having to buy a domain and host a distinct machine for every single idea to be a poc in ATProto sux

Frankly atproto is a great technology that just has yet to really be successfully productized. A few orgs are putting real work into that productization now but only time will tell if it succeeds.

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}"

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

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.

atproto 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