Atproto has never required HTTP megastructure. April 2023:
dietrich
@why.bsky.team how locked to the http+dns+ssl nexus of publisher-centric control is atproto? i see https noted briefly in xrpc docs. how local+offline and transport agnostic can we get here? bluetooth / mdns / laser / pigeon transports possible?
Jul 2, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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If AT Protocol becomes โa meaningful layer of the webโ โ even if itโs only tens of millions of users โ then the winning ideas probably wonโt only be futuristic...
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Thinking about atproto as an identity and data *substrate* of the web. RSS couldn't go all the way because it built within the boundaries of the same-origin paradigm, just like the closed platforms that ended up enclosing most of the web.
Paul Frazee
Yeah I'd say RSS was directionally right - it was an underpowered database replication protocol. It just needed to go all the way
Thinking about atproto as an identity and data *substrate* of the web. RSS couldn't go all the way because it built within the boundaries of the same-origin paradigm, just like the closed platforms that ended up enclosing most of the web.
Paul Frazee
Yeah I'd say RSS was directionally right - it was an underpowered database replication protocol. It just needed to go all the way
If you had asked me a year ago, I would have told you that the ATProtocol was the future of social media. If you'd asked me at the end of last year, I would have told you that it was the future of the web as well. Today I think it could be bigger even than that.
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