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
Email Doesn't Suck. It's Email Clients That Need Improving
Don't hate the technology, hate the implementation.
Scott Lanoue - CoMail
AT://meme (@atproto.meme)
AT://meme (@atproto.meme)
Super Mail Forward : an email that evolves as you forward it
Last year, Litmus held a community contest which theme was “Emails Worth Forwarding”. In order to participate, I created an email I called…
Email explained from first principles
Modern email is a patchwork of protocols and extensions. Here is one article to understand them all.
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.
The 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)
Wanted to play around with Jev and did a little atproto account search tool. Originally made for our social-media team that wanted to be able to tag @thealexlichter.com in our 🦋-posts knowing only: "alex, dev that does something with void" 🤷♂️ Whats his @? -> whatstheir.at 😊
Mail on atproto?! What does that even mean! Find out from out latest guests @scottlanoue.com creator of comail. youtube.com/watch?v=xEMaj7mucJc open.spotify.com/episode/125lgaTqazwySL4YcLQyX…
