Clarifying: I feel like we just invented email addresses. And they’re tricky, I get it. But I’m pushing back on “wtf is the @ symbol even, nobody knows what ‘inbox’ or ‘smtp’ is, stop making it hard for normies” Instead of making atproto invisible, what if we made it worth the learning curve?
Eli Mallon
If your goal is to make atproto accessible to non-technical users I implore you to stop calling them “normies”
Apr 18, 2026 at 4:52 PM
AT://meme (@atproto.meme)
AT://meme (@atproto.meme)
Ronny Chieng
Instead of figuring out how to game these horrible social media algorithms by flooding my followers with dumb content, I’m trying to actually respect my audience for once by creating an email list to contact you only when I want something from you. For example, if I’m performing live in your area and I want to you to come, or if I have a new comedy special out and I want you to click on it, or beam it into your brain or whatever the comedy platform of the future will be. Sign up below and unsubscribe at anytime.
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comail
Cooperative email for atproto. Small self-hosters pool reputation through a shared relay so mail from their own domain reliably reaches the inbox.
comail
Cooperative email for atproto. Small self-hosters pool reputation through a shared relay so mail from their own domain reliably reaches the inbox.
The nerds are building a new internet, and I could feel it in the room
The AT Protocol is a quiet attempt to rebuild social software the way email was built — open, portable, owned by no one. A meetup in Portland this week made the stakes feel real.
A funny thing happened the other day with @wilb.me and @timtrautmann.com and it gave me a silly idea
A funny thing happened in the Atmosphere
chrispardy.leaflet.pubThe conversation in this 🧵 between @anna.germnetwork.com, @sgo.to, + @bnewbold.net has me hopping in my chair with excitement Can we finally implement the full potential of the @-ness of handles vs. sites?
bryan newbold
my response to anna's original idea is that handles are already domains, and there should be cool sites there. eg, if you put dril.bsky.social in a browser bar today, you get redirected to bsky.app/profile/dril.bsky.social instead, dril.bsky.social could be a webpage, like linktree (blento is a link app)
