beepbooptheory 4 days ago

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?

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  • psionides 4 days ago

    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.

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tomrod 4 days ago

What sorts of things can be built on the protocol?

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  • mozzius 4 days ago

    It’s good at social-oriented apps - there’s obviously Bluesky, and many other smaller apps in the style of other platforms.

    One of the most interesting projects is tangled.sh - a github-like using atproto for the social layer, which fits perfectly.

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  • psionides 4 days ago

    Anything "social" basically - the first ideas that come to people's minds are of course things like: GitHub but on ATProto, Instagram on ATProto, Tiktok on ATProto, Reddit on ATProto…

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    • jazzyjackson 4 days ago

      Why isn't there a Discord built on ATProto ? [Serious Question, wondering if there are trade-offs that make this especially annoying]

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      • OneDeuxTriSeiGo 4 days ago

        Currently atproto is still figuring out how to approach private data. Right now there exists extremely limited abilities to store private data via the bluesky preferences but until that mechanism is standardised in a way other projects can use, there's not really a good way to store data privately let alone transmit data privately.

        There's a working group for doing this but it'll be a while before anything is adopted at scale.

        If fully public is okay for you, there is actually already a chatroom/IRC-esque platform called Roomy. It works well but it is all public and there's a touch more latency than a normal client-server platform due to the nature of atproto's gossip protocol.

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      • psionides 4 days ago

        So, one big problem is that there's basically no way to have shared-private data in the protocol - it's either private to you, or fully public. Hence no "locked accounts", "followers-only posts" and so on on Bluesky, and this also prevents more sensitive ideas like e.g. "Strava on ATProto" (where you probably don't want to share your run map with the whole world!).

        They are working on this, but it's still gonna take a while as I understand.

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