From d6a599947d00f52a40dd655cbe6cb2b7b8938e52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ayo Ayco Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2024 23:10:55 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] feat: add atproto post --- _posts/2024-11-03-atproto.md | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/2024-11-03-atproto.md diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-03-atproto.md b/_posts/2024-11-03-atproto.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..adcd91a --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2024-11-03-atproto.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +--- +title: "Bluesky’s AT Protocol as I Understand It" +permalink: /:title/ +description: "Why I think there's reasonable apprehension around the new social protocol" +category: technology +--- + +My attempt to explain [AT Protocol](https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/atproto) to a 5y.o. — confirmed as [“looks correct”](https://bsky.app/profile/danabra.mov/post/3la34iwphxk2i) by [dan](https://bsky.app/profile/danabra.mov). 😅 + +Personal Data Servers (PDS) are for common folk. Very lightweight, easy to set up. You own your stuff. + +The big-world central Bluesky app / aggregator is for those that has the resource to run them: infra, moderation, manpower. + +Maybe think of how Google search can pull public info from different sites and you can interact with them... + +At some point other big-world aggregators can pop up (Bing, DuckDuckGo?) and we would probably need them + +Currently PDSes by themselves don’t give us a way to interact, we need such big-world aggregators for that + +Hence, the difficulty of seeing this network as a decentralized platform + +That said, what they mean by it “taking inspiration from The Web” — is how Big Tech (in terms of resources) has owned the decentralized design of the Web via consolidation of information and controlling how we interact + +Now the question is: what have we learned from that kind of Web?