Artist app diary (1): the general idea - hilke thinks

Some more ideas about how I think to build an atproto app for artists from the needs I see in my community, and how I envision to grow this into a longer term project. I am curious about your feedback and who is interested to participate.

Every lexicon, every "app" on ATProto is a "yes and" waiting for your contribution to the vision. We're all first party developers.

I finally put some ideas into words about the artist focused app that I would like to build on atproto. I am looking for collaborators, especially artists and UI designers.

also, I kinda feel like calling the things that consume atproto data "apps" does a disservice to understanding what they are / how they work / what their potential is. But that is a partially-formed hot take I can't fully defend yet.

some thoughts on atproto as a post-app paradigm

I've been thinking a lot lately about how lexicon authors could help app developers understand intent. #atproto trezy.codes/blog/what-if-lexicons-knew-ho…

some thoughts on atproto as a post-app paradigm

individual atproto uis are already remixing data from different apps. so the concept of an "app" blends — each product is a prism over the shared ecosystem. and if nothing except authorship is firmly gluing different pieces, could an application be glued together from different authors' pieces?

This is partly why I think atproto needs a more convincing vision about being a post-app protocol. A future where atproto is a bunch of apps and each app governs their own lexicon diminishes a lot of its potential in the long-term.

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

Imagining atproto as a post-app protocol starts with materializing the social filesystem – decomposing apps and their data into materials and instruments. For the time being, this guestbook is a good example where the display element is a material and the sign element is an instrument.