alt Hacker NewsAt Protocol: Building the Social Internet
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The summary of what this is about is:
"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."
It's too bad that information isn't on the front page. You have click "GET STARTED" and scroll down
I often wonder if people have forgotten that you can send information through the internet without HTTP(S)
I think it would be interesting if the file servers had read/write/list/delete permissions on files. For both groups and users.
It would mean the public stuff could see your files but private projects could exist. Eg. Maybe I don't want my At Protocol version of Figma making all my drawings public. If they could be shared in a group (anyone in a list in that folder or whatever).
Maybe this is coming, but would interest me way more about using applications on the atmosphere.
Those of you old enough to remember etherpeg can now see an ATproto version:
How common is it to host your own PDS? It's not really clear to me what the advantages/disadvantage are.
Previous discussion in 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33252108
This is really cool. It has retro vibes of the era when the Internet was still free from the big five domination.
I could see this turning into a more modern and sane usenet replacement
Blog post about this new site from February might shed some light: https://atproto.com/blog/new-site-2026
I didn't understand what this was until I did some more digging around.
Apparently, it's a decentralized way to interact with social media. A protocol created by Bluesky which allows social networks to communicate directly. This is similar to how different email clients like Gmail and Outlook can send messages to each other.