App stores could be replaced by having apps published to a PDS, with safety provided using content moderation tooling, search indexed from the firehose, etc. thoufh. We strike aggregators everywhere that they stand.
Gordon
Software industry is probably going to look a lot like the music industry or games industry. Lots of talent, lots of supply, bottleneck shifts to distribution. Aggregators win again?
Feb 27, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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I think we need a "PDS as a Service". There are a bunch of little apps I'd love to make, but I don't want to have to host a PDS for each of them for anyone who doesn't already have an account. But I'd be fine with allowing them to register to a PDS with my app's domain and pay a fee per sign up.
Post-appitalism rejects the super-app as a meaningful alternative to todays app-based production of software. An app that becomes so big that it starts sucking in smaller apps perpetuates the same dynamics no matter how well integrated the smaller apps can be.
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Claude is inheriting a centralized app-centric bias here (which existing OAuth profiles may share) To wind up in a decentralized world where all "my data" lives on "my PDS" -- regardless of how many atproto apps I authorize to store stuff there for me (see 🧵) -- we should invert that paradigm
Paul Rohr
TL/DR = yes, it's a subtle conceptual shift: - from app-centric (apps control identity/data, delegating access to you at signin) - to identity-centric (you control identity/data, delegating access to apps at signin) Really looking forward to how the team evolves the OAuth UX to address this! /END
The key questions: how much power will apps be given to determine and enforce what data is permissioned? What incentives will apps have to make any data public? So far the protocol has been a forcing function for (adversarial) interop. We need to be intentional about not recreating app silos.
daniel holmgren 🫠
hey we're really working on permissioned data! read the first in a series of posts i'll be doing about our design decisions along the way. this one is about our decision to not do an e2ee system
