You’ll get more traction, by stating way up top what AT is and who should care about it.
CharlesW 2 hours ago [-]
Do you know of something better than the first link in TFA?
sltkr 2 hours ago [-]
You shouldn't have to click away from a blog post to understand what the blog post is about. It should start with a clear self-contained introduction.
atproto.com contains a succinct discription:
> Atproto is a big-world open social protocol. Users publish JSON records into repositories. The changestreams of those records then sync across the network to drive applications.
Still a bit abstract, but OK. Personally I would include that AT protocol stands for Authenticated Transfer Protocol and that it is the protocol powering Bluesky.
SV_BubbleTime 3 hours ago [-]
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maremmano 16 minutes ago [-]
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wslh 3 hours ago [-]
Funny how this rhymes with something I wrote in 2011[1][2]: a "universal spreadsheet" where people share not just data but the transformations over it. The pieces are more real now: you can actually free your data from closed services (e.g. Instagram), orchestrate it on something like ATProto, and LLMs make a great new kind of "function" for the system.
Most people right now do not want their social media data in world/anonymous-read mode nor want Ai accessing it and doing things with it.
maxrev17 2 hours ago [-]
Too late for that
verdverm 2 hours ago [-]
There's always the future. I stopped using ATProto after the revelations that they hid their VC raise from the community for almost a year (and some other things, straw eventually breaks a camel's back) - and almost all social media, which is a (mild) trend aiui.
Setting aside contemporary political dynamics, there is also the possibility for robust data rights laws that can change the game.
wslh 2 hours ago [-]
Nothing about this requires world-readable data, privacy can be its own layer. FriendFeed[1] did this well back in the day: it aggregated your feeds and let you control who saw each one.
I agree, that's just not where ATProtocol is (currently only available in world/anonymous-read mode). Personally, I find the permission proposal rather lacking (ACL vs the advancements / learning since) and user requested features will require building auth enhancements at the app level, thereby creating a form of centralization.
wslh 2 hours ago [-]
> thereby creating a form of centralization.
Fair point on app-level auth, still far less centralized than the status quo, where the data, the permissions, and every function on top all belong to one company.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567961
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Private repos are now on the horizon. Huzzah!
atproto.com contains a succinct discription:
> Atproto is a big-world open social protocol. Users publish JSON records into repositories. The changestreams of those records then sync across the network to drive applications.
Still a bit abstract, but OK. Personally I would include that AT protocol stands for Authenticated Transfer Protocol and that it is the protocol powering Bluesky.
[1] https://blog.databigbang.com/ideas-egont-a-web-orchestration...
[2] https://blog.databigbang.com/egont-part-ii/
Setting aside contemporary political dynamics, there is also the possibility for robust data rights laws that can change the game.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed
Fair point on app-level auth, still far less centralized than the status quo, where the data, the permissions, and every function on top all belong to one company.