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arjieyesterday at 9:32 PM2 repliesview on HN

My experience using ATProto is that it is somewhat like how the nascent blockchain apps were when they first came out: there's no written content that is viable. Instead, you're supposed to use ephemeral conversations and read a widely disparate set of notes in order to use it. In the end, the upshot of all this is that you get to use a slightly worse form of Twitter - which is already rather unpleasant to use for me because there's a lot of rage content there.

Microblogs are fun, and very often I can't justify a whole blog post, but I have seen that others just post their thoughts intermingled and it makes me wonder if perhaps that is what I should do. There's not that much utility to the wide audience anyway. Talking to people who understand you is much nicer anyway.


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culiyesterday at 9:43 PM

ATProto can be used be used for a lot more than just microblogs

https://tangled.org/

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mcdonjeyesterday at 9:43 PM

>you get to use a slightly worse form of Twitter

The protocol can support all sorts of other social networks. People are building things akin to instagram, tiktok, medium, allrecipies, etc

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