Interesting article. One reason Nostr and Atproto feel so similar is they’re both rewrites of Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) but with servers playing a bigger role than scuttlebutt’s pure peer to peer architecture.

To me Bluesky is the cathedral and Nostr is the bazaar. This is similar to how you’ve put it.

In terms of tech atproto is as if Scuttlebutt was rewrited by IPFS / protocol labs people and Nostr is bitcoiners doing the same thing.

They’re much more similar to each other than anything else in active use. I was working on SSB, i made planetary.social, then was involved in the early creation of Bluesky, before deciding to focus on Nostr.

There is stuff in all these platforms, Mastodon included, that I like and that I can’t stand. Nostr reminds me of html and php, its designed to be very hacker friendly. Mastodon is stuck in its web 2.0 ruby on rails roots. Atproto feels over designed similar to java. Sure it is solid and scales, but it’s also not very fun to build on because there are so many layers.