any future apps being able to “do a threads” I think is a really compelling reason to build on atproto
Samuel@samuel.fm· 2 Nov 2024you can create a new service using the same technology, and it will have the same benefits. what’s interesting is that since the data is structured and open, you can “borrow” data from other services - e.g. you can kickstart your algorithm with the existing social graph
ok how about this:
AP: you have multiple twitters that talk to each other
AT: what if twitter drew its data from the open web?
dan@danabra.mov· 30 Oct 2024i wonder if diagrams like these might help draw the distinction between ActivityPub (and how Mastodon uses it) and AT Protocol (and how it’s used by Bluesky and atproto apps)?
with AP, instance = application + hosting. data gets sent between instances.
with AT, data flows *from* hosting *to* apps
AP’s credible exit: you can make a new twitter. however your data is stuck on the old one
AT’s credible exit: the data layer is independent from the apps and the network state is reproducible, so you can move to a new twitter seemlessly and even with an adversarial data host
2 9 79bluesky is a “view” of all bluesky-type data on the open web. making a new “instance” of bluesky is to create a new “view” of the same data. this is like how Google and Bing have created independent search indexes of the same data
3 16 96atproto data is a lot more structured, so two different “view”s of all bluesky-type data will be nearly identical.
this is why it’s called an “AppView”
2 4 58you can create a new service using the same technology, and it will have the same benefits. what’s interesting is that since the data is structured and open, you can “borrow” data from other services - e.g. you can kickstart your algorithm with the existing social graph
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free likes on test posts, except what I'm testing is a bug which sends many many posts at once by accident = a lot of likes
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oh and every single animation here is 100% reanimated layout animations 🐎
Samuel@samuel.fm· 31 Oct 2024so, about that “native feel”
ballot drop boxes sound legitimately insane to me. what do you mean you leave your vote in a trashcan on the street
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