I’m heading to the first ATprotocol conference in Seattle this weekend. I’m really curious what they’ve been up to over in Bluesky land. I think it’s important to know what other protocols are doing. They’ve got some things really right, they’ve had tremendous growth in users and use. There are experiments in groups, alt apps, etc….
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Keep us posted!! We’re moots on bsky already haha! Sometimes wish I was in the US so I could attend these conferences.
nostr:npub1c3jrnzev404fs6asgn5nfrns5d509fxzhw0kglun009n80pehm9qg37ma4 I live in New Zealand, not exactly close.
yeah I know lol, but it’d still be cool to get there by living in the US
Excited to hear what you learn!
It's a consideration that because its actually censorable that money is flowing there.
There are ATProtocol setups that are more or less just as censorship resistant as anything else trying to be so. Talking things like a scaled-down App View pulling directly from a network of self-hosted PDSs on DID:PLC. These are setups that Bluesky the company would have zero control or influence over.
Very much in the the enthusiast camp, but the point ATProtocol is not a monolith when it comes to such things.
Couldn’t agree more. There’s always a ton to learn and people eager to share
let us know what they got right once you find out please
I remember you saying you trusted the bluesky team in their plan to decentralize it, do you still hold that belief? Have they given up their decentralization plans?
I've been in the weeds there, it's pretty decentralised on a architectural level. I see ATProtocol as analogous to Nostr but with 99% of the users on Primal. Fixing a hypothetical Nostr like that doesn't mean fixing the Nostr protocol. There's not much really to "fix". What it means is some Damus emerging and taking market share from this Primal behemoth.
Not too much the Bluesky team can do but encourage the makers of these future Damuses to speed up. What else could they do? The protocol itself is already open source, credible exit already assured, etc.