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Introduction to AT Protocol

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Re: Introduction to AT Protocol

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Post by psionides »

beepbooptheory wrote: post #58
verdverm wrote: post #14

If you are interested in building on ATProtocol, one of the best places to start is the Discord (until we have an atproto native alt @blebbit.app) https://discord.atprotocol.dev/ Of course the spec is good too, very easy read https://atproto.com https://docs.bsky.app

Thats such a bummer, I was on the matrix dev chat for a while and it was good and helpful. I wonder why they changed it from that?

I don't think that Matrix chat was used much after the initial months, I've only really heard about it in legends... That Discord (the ATProto Touchers) is community-run.

Re: Introduction to AT Protocol

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Post by sitzkrieg »

tetrisgm wrote: post #4

Been pondering for my team to use it for our product’s timeline. I don’t particularly want our user base to be Bluesky, but it’d be good to have support for the protocol, and control over the system. Have there been any products go embraced this? Or is it like ActivityPub where basically the whole thing is Mastodon.

activitypub is mostly used in the fediverse. mastodon is one of many clients and servers, and one of the worst.

Re: Introduction to AT Protocol

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Post by xbar »

sitzkrieg wrote: post #62
xphos wrote: post #53

Here I was thinking I'd see old AT commands for controlling radios. Learned something new

theyre not old and still used in many many cell modems :-)

Yup.

Bluesky's name collision was pretty avoidable here but I guess they thought the obvious name was BS.

Re: Introduction to AT Protocol

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Post by nate_nowack »

mdaniel wrote: post #49
nate_nowack wrote: post #11

would love fb marketplace disruptor on atproto

Isn't the problem the network effect, and not the protocol whatsoever?

yea i dont think there's any blocker from a protocol perspective, im just saying i'd love to see it happen. adoption for sure among the largest hurdles id guess

Re: Introduction to AT Protocol

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Post by dokyun »

verdverm wrote: post #52
hiena03 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Relevant post by Christine Lemmer-Webber (Co-creator of ActivityPub) https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

a very opinionated piece that leads by conclusion rather than building up to it. The main part of ATProto that is centralized is the PLC and that will eventually be made (most likely) into a consortium. PDS hosting is debatable That being said, it should be possible to run completely independent atproto networks today. We have several dev infra setups for doing it in the ecosystem

> it should be possible to run completely independent atproto networks today

But does anyone do it? It doesn't really matter if it's /theoretically possible/ if no one actually does it.

Running an ActivityPub server is piss easy, anyone can do it on a $5 VPS or in their basement, and that's one of its big strengths.

Re: Introduction to AT Protocol

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Post by danabramov »

dokyun wrote: post #67
verdverm wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

a very opinionated piece that leads by conclusion rather than building up to it. The main part of ATProto that is centralized is the PLC and that will eventually be made (most likely) into a consortium. PDS hosting is debatable That being said, it should be possible to run completely independent atproto networks today. We have several dev infra setups for doing it in the ecosystem

> it should be possible to run completely independent atproto networks today But does anyone do it? It doesn't really matter if it's /theoretically possible/ if no one actually does it. Running an ActivityPub server is piss easy, anyone can do it on a $5 VPS or in their basement, and that's one of its big strengths.

People are doing it yeah. The post linked in the comment above is already outdated, see https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lo7a2a4qxg2l for relatively recent developments.
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