The fundamental strength of ATProto — and why I think it'll last — is that it is designed first and foremost to be built upon, by anyone, for any reason, rather than locking into one specific paradigm of its maintainers' choosing. Also tbh sex workers are the social media Mandate of Heaven, so.

#atproto does not need to win only by convincing people to post somewhere new. It can win by becoming the foundation for software people already need to use because of real-world relationship woodys-rows.pckt.blog/open-forks-of-boring-apps-wit…

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.

The pitch to community leaders and creators is still taking shape, but the interesting part is the fact that ATProto changes the relationships and power dynamics they and their community have around control of data, vendor lock in, and the flexibility to create new experiences.

A lot of the devs on atproto on here seem to be like, why won't any users use my stuff well, bc a not inconsiderable amount of current atproto users on bluesky are artists and marginalized people and you have a fuckass chatgpt ghibli pfp. I cannot emphasize this enough, you are signaling you don't

There's lots I haven't yet understood about atproto, but I simply won't do the standard.site thing whilst it offers a worse UX than… not doing it.

There are many things being built on atproto. Many of them won’t get adopted or thrive. And yes, many are built without user research. It’s OK? Don’t use things you don’t want to. Promote things you like. And build something yourself if you feel like it. Do it the way YOU want it to be.