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.

Some initial atproto-related learnings from #Rebuild Helsinki 🇫🇮 * most people building apps here have no idea what atproto is, which is a shame since especially when building social apps, atproto is a great starting point for many reasons

the open ecosystem for atproto makes it super easy for one developer to build a compelling and feature rich application in their free time that cannot possibly be maintained by one developer in their free time

yk the atproto space is kinda a great example of how corporate involvement can be a double edged sword. its gotten a lot bigger relative to how long its been around compared to a lot of other similar tech stuff. but god the corporate and hustle culture that exists in big parts of the community is 😭

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.

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.

Some thoughts on why ATProto is so exciting from the perspective of what it could unlock software dev wise.

Does atproto make a company non acquirable? All you buy is an install base that can move, an app view maybe, and the team Without a moat what are you actually buying?

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.