Once again looking at bring your own user-data storage options (for my malleable software experiment this time). What do people think are some user friendly options that don't require any OAuth apps to be created on the server? ie. no Dropbox, Google Drive, One Drive & other services like that.
Jun 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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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
I was looking at an older version of the software I'm yet again working on from what, 15 years ago, and I can't believe we're still mostly stuck with the same private blob storage options that can serve as user-data storage. S3-compatible storage + Dropbox was the list: github.com/icidasset/ongaku-ryoho-v1?tab…
