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These are some quick notes on @shreyanjain.net's Nostr and ATProto write-up. Overall: omg this thing is a book. Lauditory! It is really great to see this discussed in depth and detail. I don't know whether to be embarassed that we didn't write up something like this much earlier, or proud that thin...
Thoughts on "Nostr and ATProto" | bryan newbold (⛱️ sabbatical mode)
These are some quick notes on @shreyanjain.net's Nostr and ATProto write-up. Overall: omg this thing is a book. Lauditory! It is really great to see this discussed in depth and detail. I don't know whether to be embarassed that we didn't write up something like this much earlier, or proud that thin...
shreyan - Nostr and ATProto
This post could’ve been titled “Nostr vs ATProto”, but that really isn’t what I wanted to do here. While I will be comparing and contrasting them a lot, and that’s kind of even the point of writing this, I didn’t want to really pit the two against each other at all, and especially not with the title. I also want to try avoiding commenting on the differences between the communities that have formed on the protocols and their apps, although I definitely will be looking at the philosophical differences between the two a lot - also kind of the point of writing this. This also isn’t a super deep technical post, though it assumes familiarity with technical concepts. I also might come back to edit parts of it and add more later.
shreyan - Nostr and ATProto
This post could’ve been titled “Nostr vs ATProto”, but that really isn’t what I wanted to do here. While I will be comparing and contrasting them a lot, and that’s kind of even the point of writing this, I didn’t want to really pit the two against each other at all, and especially not with the title. I also want to try avoiding commenting on the differences between the communities that have formed on the protocols and their apps, although I definitely will be looking at the philosophical differences between the two a lot - also kind of the point of writing this. This also isn’t a super deep technical post, though it assumes familiarity with technical concepts. I also might come back to edit parts of it and add more later.
atstats - ATProto Lexicon Usage
Nostr - Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays
Nostr is an inclusive communication commons. A simple standard that defines a scalable architecture of clients and servers that can be used to spread information freely. Not controlled by any corporation or government, anyone can build on Nostr and anyone can use it.
Introducing ATProto Science - Cosmik Labs
Announcing atproto.science! #ATproto has huge potential for supporting new ways of doing research, so we started @atproto.science to help bring together researchers, build community, and explore what's possible when science meets cutting-edge open social network protocols! 🧪 >
bnewbold.net
Bluesky released early documentation for the "AT Protocol" (atproto) a few weeks ago, and I've been noodling around with it. Technically, it strikes an appealing balance between rigid cryptographically signed content-addressable storage on the one hand, and familiar web-friendly schemas and integrations on the other. But at an ecosystem level, there are already a bunch of existing open social media projects. Does atproto bring anything interesting to the table? How might it fit in compared to other similar protocols?
some thoughts on atproto as a post-app paradigm
Ecosystem Plugins
notes.wesleyfinck.orgThe ATProto community built a ton of great features and products over the past year. For our next trick, let's mature them into products and businesses.
Mosh Lee
(2/n) A feature solves one problem well — even delightfully well. But features get copied easily or absorbed into larger products. They have no distribution or adoption model. If your whole thing can become a pane in someone else's app, it's a feature.
while the permissionlessness vector of atproto will certainly enable new things we can't imagine the pattern of "____ but on atproto" is key for taking our daily lives back. a framing i prefer is "i can now do {boringDailyLifeThing} without {shittyExtractiveApp}"
dame
i would like to see more atproto apps that aren’t just “already popular app, but on atproto”
atproto-reads
blogs and writing about atproto (maybe also open social generally)
The Bluesky ecosystem has the juice (ATProto for normies) - Nate Spilman
nothin' but blue skies from now on
What It Means for Universities to Run Their Own PDS: The Potential of DID as Academic Infrastructure - Nightflight
From Attention to Intention - The Open Garden
Practical Decentralization
