Comment by codazoda
> The Authenticated Transfer Protocol, aka atproto, is a decentralized protocol for large-scale social web applications.
I must not be the target audience for this older article. Several paragraphs in, I had no idea what this was about. That’s how ATProto describes itself.
I wrote an intro to AT that should be broadly accessible and states the problems before the solutions. You might find it helpful: https://overreacted.io/open-social/