🧵 I've been wracking my brain around ATProto onboarding. Why do all ATProto apps make you create a new account before you can do anything interesting? Why don't we let people start with an email address or phone #? Then claim your identity if/when the need actually arises.

🧵 I've been wracking my brain around ATProto onboarding. Why do all ATProto apps make you create a new account before you can do anything interesting? Why don't we let people start with an email address or phone #? Then claim your identity if/when the need actually arises.

Atmosphere Account is now an Atmosphere App. What started as an account provider page is becoming an App Store-style registry for the Atmosphere: project profiles, discovery, screenshots, reviews, updates, and protocol-native records. Check out the explore page: atmosphereaccount.com/explore

Me, writing an off-protocol proof-of-concept that requires a login: "should I make everyone get an atmosphere account?"

why do all the atmosphere apps continually make me log back in like every day? its really annoying. I don't get this in any other ecosystem

we are starting to see the fan out of atmospheric apps and all of them are calling your account a different thing imo the identity of your account - whatever it ends up being called - needs to get settled very soon Internet account, Atmosphere account, whatever… just SOMETHING

One thing I've been toying with, instead of talking about "PDS" and cryptic nonsense like that is: Atmosphere Service Provider, like an ISP but for the social internet. Part of the motivation is that "Sign in with Atmosphere" only works if people have seen that before.