Looks like someone's built a Reddit-like on top of ATProto. Would be really interesting to see whether it could interact with the threadiverse through something like BridgyFed, which currently only works with microblogs (I think?)

Opportunity? Existential threat? You decide...

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[–] rglullis@communick.news 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I think the most interesting opportunity here is that ATProto's strength is that it was built for a "credible exit", i.e, it allows users to migrate from any centralized network to a decentralized one.

IOW, it would be a lot easier to implement Fediverser on top of ATProto than of ActivityPub.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Yes, but only if you can do without instances. Instances seem to be important to many in the Fediverse.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Federation is not the natural unit of organization, that's a hill I'm ready to die on. The problem is that most people get hung up on the idea of instances because they've only experienced the two extremes of siloed networks and the "Dark Forest" of blockchain.

[–] mudkip@lemdro.id 1 points 1 month ago

It's a mess, I find it ridiculous that my account and all of its data is tied to a fediverse instance (which is most often operated by a single person that could decide to shut it down at any time) and other people are ok with this

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