I was right about ATProto key management
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I was right about ATProto key management
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Re: I was right about ATProto key management
#2It's written in anger, but I'm optimistic that this will eventually get fixed, and documenting bad experiences like this will help.
Re: I was right about ATProto key management
#3My experience using ATProto is that it is somewhat like how the nascent blockchain apps were when they first came out: there's no written content that is viable. Instead, you're supposed to use ephemeral conversations and read a widely disparate set of notes in order to use it. In the end, the upshot of all this is that you get to use a slightly worse form of Twitter - which is already rather unpleasant to use for me because there's a lot of rage content there.
Microblogs are fun, and very often I can't justify a whole blog post, but I have seen that others just post their thoughts intermingled and it makes me wonder if perhaps that is what I should do. There's not that much utility to the wide audience anyway. Talking to people who understand you is much nicer anyway.
Re: I was right about ATProto key management
#4My experience using ATProto is that it is somewhat like how the nascent blockchain apps were when they first came out: there's no written content that is viable. Instead, you're supposed to use ephemeral conversations and read a widely disparate set of notes in order to use it. In the end, the upshot of all this is that you get to use a slightly worse form of Twitter - which is already rather unpleasant to use for me…
>you get to use a slightly worse form of Twitter
The protocol can support all sorts of other social networks. People are building things akin to instagram, tiktok, medium, allrecipies, etc
Re: I was right about ATProto key management
#5My experience using ATProto is that it is somewhat like how the nascent blockchain apps were when they first came out: there's no written content that is viable. Instead, you're supposed to use ephemeral conversations and read a widely disparate set of notes in order to use it. In the end, the upshot of all this is that you get to use a slightly worse form of Twitter - which is already rather unpleasant to use for me…
ATProto can be used be used for a lot more than just microblogs
Re: I was right about ATProto key management
#6Complexity acts like a gate. When we make the code too hard to understand, we are telling regular people that they are not allowed to participate. True ownership of your data is only possible if you can actually afford to host it yourself. We should focus on making things simple enough for anyone to use.
Re: I was right about ATProto key management
#7The authors’ difficulty is legitimate and real, but there are less than 50 functioning did:web identities total on the planet.
Working outside of did:plc is a choice - this project is on the very ragged, least baked edge of Atmosphere development.
Re: I was right about ATProto key management
#8The authors’ difficulty is legitimate and real, but there are less than 50 functioning did:web identities total on the planet. Working outside of did:plc is a choice - this project is on the very ragged, least baked edge of Atmosphere development.
If Bluesky wants to be taken seriously they need to invest in decentralization themselves and not leave it as an exercise for the reader.
Re: I was right about ATProto key management
#9The authors’ difficulty is legitimate and real, but there are less than 50 functioning did:web identities total on the planet. Working outside of did:plc is a choice - this project is on the very ragged, least baked edge of Atmosphere development.
If Bluesky wants to be taken seriously they need to invest in decentralization themselves and not leave it as an exercise for the reader.
How many users actually care about decentralization?
Re: I was right about ATProto key management
#10My experience using ATProto is that it is somewhat like how the nascent blockchain apps were when they first came out: there's no written content that is viable. Instead, you're supposed to use ephemeral conversations and read a widely disparate set of notes in order to use it. In the end, the upshot of all this is that you get to use a slightly worse form of Twitter - which is already rather unpleasant to use for me…
ATProto can be used be used for a lot more than just microblogs https://tangled.org/
That is a really cool project, thanks for posting