Getting Started with AT Protocol

radicalriddler•22 minutes ago

Spaces really is gonna bring all the features that HN is critical about AT platforms like Tangled.

Private repos are now on the horizon. Huzzah!

alfanick•about 2 hours ago

Oh, it's some different AT protocol (some distributed mambojambo) than Hayes AT protocol.

gatio•11 minutes ago

+++ATH0+++ ... good times

exabrial•8 minutes ago

ATZ

AT&F

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thesuitonym•about 1 hour ago

Yeah I was super confused for a minute, wondering what cool and fun use someone found for this old protocol.

ternaryoperator•about 2 hours ago

You’ll get more traction, by stating way up top what AT is and who should care about it.

CharlesW•about 1 hour ago

Do you know of something better than the first link in TFA?

sltkr•18 minutes ago

You shouldn't have to click away from a blog post to understand what the blog post is about. It should start with a clear self-contained introduction.

atproto.com contains a succinct discription:

> Atproto is a big-world open social protocol. Users publish JSON records into repositories. The changestreams of those records then sync across the network to drive applications.

Still a bit abstract, but OK. Personally I would include that AT protocol stands for Authenticated Transfer Protocol and that it is the protocol powering Bluesky.

wslh•about 2 hours ago

Funny how this rhymes with something I wrote in 2011[1][2]: a "universal spreadsheet" where people share not just data but the transformations over it. The pieces are more real now: you can actually free your data from closed services (e.g. Instagram), orchestrate it on something like ATProto, and LLMs make a great new kind of "function" for the system.

[1] https://blog.databigbang.com/ideas-egont-a-web-orchestration...

[2] https://blog.databigbang.com/egont-part-ii/

verdverm•about 1 hour ago

Most people right now do not want their social media data in world/anonymous-read mode nor want Ai accessing it and doing things with it.

maxrev17•30 minutes ago

Too late for that

verdverm•25 minutes ago

There's always the future. I stopped using ATProto after the revelations that they hid their VC raise from the community for almost a year (and some other things, straw eventually breaks a camel's back) - and almost all social media, which is a (mild) trend aiui.

Setting aside contemporary political dynamics, there is also the possibility for robust data rights laws that can change the game.

wslh•43 minutes ago

Nothing about this requires world-readable data, privacy can be its own layer. FriendFeed[1] did this well back in the day: it aggregated your feeds and let you control who saw each one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed

verdverm•23 minutes ago

I agree, that's just not where ATProtocol is (currently only available in world/anonymous-read mode). Personally, I find the permission proposal rather lacking (ACL vs the advancements / learning since) and user requested features will require building auth enhancements at the app level, thereby creating a form of centralization.

Getting Started with AT Protocol

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