a few atproto tools which made it easier to cryptographically verify individual records would make it matter less where records live and we could move away from a single-PDS world for use-cases which don't need universe-scale state (not saying go full Nostr, just thinking on a happy medium)

the single most important part of atproto is the PDS as a user-controlled auth and storage layer to which clients can connect directly. death to appviews

Oh this is interesting. At first I thought it was yet another lexicon to wrap data on, but it's a way for anyone to use ATProto as a discovery mechanism for their non-PDS-hosted datasets. I hadn't thought of the ATmosphere and the relays as a way to surface arbitrary existing data until know.

Why atproto has not been explored by game devs? Saves, collectibles and inventories can all be stored on a PDS Imagine carrying on your character from one game to another or between the same series instalments Storing stuff like CS2 skins on atproto should be a no brainer How cool is that?

This is a radically different idea than the advocacy I’ve seen for “data portability” and ”data sovereignty”. It’s a *restructuring* of power rather than small adjustments to existing structures. atproto and local-first, both in their own ways, demonstrate what such a restructuring can look like.

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.

Are there any atproto apps that use records from competitors? This ecosystem won't feel open to me until @bsky.app uses something from outside the `app.bsky` namespace as part of its core experience