🧵 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.

Bluesky picking up bots and spam accounts before I can even get into the app to check the notification, while probably over half our followers on X are fake, still. I just wish this app had the equivalent of Spaces cos I'd definitely move.

🧵 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.

this is a psa , if you visit a website that offers to let you sign in with atmosphere/bluesky you should click the little question mark in the top right. if it says "transition:generic", that app can do ANYTHING with the data in your account, short of dms and actually deleting/moving your account..

"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."

this is a psa , if you visit a website that offers to let you sign in with atmosphere/bluesky you should click the little question mark in the top right. if it says "transition:generic", that app can do ANYTHING with the data in your account, short of dms and actually deleting/moving your account..

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