most people do not care about the atproto moral claim
atproto made simple: granular permissions - underreacted
Understanding ATProtoFans: A Technical Deep Dive into Verifiable Creator Support - ATProtoFans Blog
Code as Content on ATProto — Filae
Apps as ATProto records - a proof-of-concept for serverless, user-owned applications.
Things we shouldn't say in polite company - Sherif's blog
you know, the stuff that makes sense when you work on ATProto but makes zero sense for everyone else
Some thoughts on why ATProto is so exciting from the perspective of what it could unlock software dev wise.
ATProto: Engine of Software 2.0
john.leaflet.pubthe point of atproto is to make locked-open apps. apps which are constrained such that they cannot be e.g. bought by billionaires and ruined. yes, doing non-atproto things "enables app developers to do more". yes, non-atproto is "more intuitive" and "it sucks" when you hit atproto's limits.
Too many of y’all get the shape of atproto fundamentally incorrect, thinking it’s about “data ownership,” but it’s literally never been about that, and if you keep banging that drum, you’ll miss the point, just like we have every other time.
Bryan (they/them) on pckt
pckt.blogIt's hard for non-technical people to understand that #atproto (Bluesky, and friends) really is a different breed of social software. One where our data, and connections are no longer taken hostage by the platform and we're free to store our data wherever we want
#atproto does not need to win only by convincing people to post somewhere new. It can win by becoming the foundation for software people already need to use because of real-world relationship woodys-rows.pckt.blog/open-forks-of-boring-apps-wit…
Open Forks of Boring Apps With Authority
woodys-rows.pckt.blogMy take on the "explaining atproto" discourse is that all the UX/filesystem/etc metaphors are still very verbose and that you can explain the same idea in a lot less words: It separates data from apps, so any app can use data from any other app. That fits in a tweet, with other sentences around it.
atproto offers an fascinating example of what it means to restructure this relationship. End-users get to choose who and how much trust they delegate to software producers, the delegation of trust becomes tangible and revokable.
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Networked computing, in a fundamental way, changed the producer-consumer relationship we have with corporations. In the material world that relationship ends with the transfer of material and money; I buy a pencil and some paper, and the producer is out of the picture while I use them to write.
