ActivityPub always felt like “I’m creating my own MySpace and you can make yours too if you want”, while AtProto feels more like a revised way to think about how this sort of service should work.

Fuck, I should probably add an announcement soon to askeverything.app that it is going to move to ATProto, huh? Gotta warn people that to stay on board the ship, they can't have private profiles anymore...

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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

Folks, this isn't some cute side-project where you can just switch out tens of thousands of paying users and force them to use atproto It's a nice idea, but those are the sort of things only possible on new early stage projects

I'm going to be launching something pretty big next week, which just happens to include a new atproto AppView, labeler, blob proxy, lexicons. It will have tens of thousands of users, most of whom won't even know they're using atproto, or have even heard of it.

"With atproto, any web developer can get, for free, a sign-in system and a place to store stuff. If you don't build for the web, that may sound like no big deal, but trust me that it opens up an enormous range of possibility."

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.

One thing I continue to see missing in many atproto discussions is some of the things businesses need. Example: I see website builders but I haven't seen permission-ed logins for multiple people to access them. Ways for a publication to have mult authors & the journalists to also own their content.

Being in the atproto community, I sometimes forget how enshittified some social apps have become. In the open social web, people will pay for valuable services, *not* to export their data.