I’m looking forward to building some feeds and private social networks off of ATProto but every time I look into it I get super confused! Hoping somebody else (like you) will eventually be able explain it to me like a 5-year old (and yes I’ve tried ChatGPT, it doesn’t get it either!)

I can’t wait to see how you manage to integrate this new and promising protocol into micro.blog.

would be nice to have an article differentiating the two and how Micro.blog will fit in the picture. Right now, one-way cross-posting on BlueSky is available - wondering how this would happen when there are more personal pods. :)

Makes me wonder…if the protocol is so hard to learn by folks with a lot of web experience, does it have any chance of becoming dominant? Historically, it seems like the simplest, yet effective, protocols are the ones that win in the end.

@dfj That is really the question. Both ActivityPub and AT Protocol are difficult in their own ways. IndieWeb protocols are still the most obvious, I think, and Nostr is fairly simple too.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I’d like to get my hands on these various protocols to see what I think for myself. But, without having done that yet, I remain skeptical of BlueSky and their protocol… Perhaps unfair, but that’s my current bias.