Why websites? · from anna

One thing I continue to see missing in many atproto discussions is some of the things businesses need. Example: I see website builders but I haven't seen permission-ed logins for multiple people to access them. Ways for a publication to have mult authors & the journalists to also own their content.

Tried to explain a bit of the use case of @varsityapex.com and why it made sense to integrate ATproto features. A full fledged site would make even more use, for the demo just opted to make records of non-score items. Tour: varsityapex.com/tour Was fun to explore the problem space a bit

🧵 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.

adding social features to our websites will accelerate atproto adoption faster than building pure atproto apps

@danabra.mov do you think it makes sense to frame atproto as providing a data and identity layer to the web, or as aiming to improve the web? I never want to overstep (see crypto claiming web3) but atproto is extremely web-brained like you said, and the web is where a lot of the utility shines

🧵 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.

I was thinking about funding again. I'm thinking that it would be really good if we could create a website similar to an ATProto app listing, but focused on founders.

why does every little atproto app being cooked up rn have to have a frontend Designed By Claude ™️ why are we so hyped about social data and an open internet and then turning to ai when its time to create and play

There's lots I haven't yet understood about atproto, but I simply won't do the standard.site thing whilst it offers a worse UX than… not doing it.

"With atproto, any web developer can get, for free, a sign-in system and a place to store stuff. If you don't build for the web, that may sound like no big deal, but trust me that it opens up an enormous range of possibility."