🧵 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.

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Something that I think is bothersome to me too is bundling logging-in with authorizing API calls ... ... ideally, we'd break these into two separate moments, and offer progressive disclosure for the user ...

"The fundamental asymmetry is that apps can be general-purpose or purpose-specific, but the *thing you are doing* is never general, it is always a concrete thing."

why is this needed with standard site?

In the *last day*, a bunch of apps in the Atmosphere are starting to adopt this proposal! Thanks to everyone who has helped out 🙏🏻 - @mu.social ☑ - @semble.so ☑ - @aturi.to ☑ - @leaflet.pub ☑ - @frontpage.fyi ☑ - @bsky.app ☐ - @pckt.blog ☐ (just reached out)

I think for the open social web, especially the Atmosphere, separating creation and consumption apps that interop are a really good thing. No app has to be a jack of all trades. Blogging apps can focus on writing and distribution tools, reading apps can focus on aggregation and read later etc. 1/

Bluesky isn’t just one app. It’s part of a much larger ecosystem, and your account is the key. Here are 7 useful apps you can log into with your @bsky.app account that you should know about.

As an academic, this is also why I plan to move completely to @leaflet.pub for my website: powerful, easy to use and easy to customize, versatile, no maintenance, and most importantly, *you* keep full control of your data.

In the *last day*, a bunch of apps in the Atmosphere are starting to adopt this proposal! Thanks to everyone who has helped out 🙏🏻 - @mu.social ☑ - @semble.so ☑ - @aturi.to ☑ - @leaflet.pub ☑ - @frontpage.fyi ☑ - @bsky.app ☐ - @pckt.blog ☐ (just reached out)

So this is one of the cool things about apps in the Atmosphere. They have to declare what stuff in your account they're going to touch.

The vector for new signups of atproto accounts is apps. Adoption is unlikely to come through just one app. A “drive” app would actually make sense and I have some ideas there but I think it will be varied. A lot of different apps can get big - from recipes to events to whatever.