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Before I do, let me just say: Bluesky and the AT Proto are in beta. The stuff that seems incomplete or poorly documented is incomplete and poorly documented. Everything has moved enormously faster than we expected it to. We have around 65k users on the beta server right now. We _thought_ that this would be a quiet, stealthy beta for us while we finished the technology and the client. We've instead gotten a ton of attention, and while that's wonderful it means that we're getting kind of bowled over. So I apologize for the things that aren't there yet. I haven't really rested in over a month. ATProto doesn't use crypto in the coin sense. It uses cryptography. The underlying premise is actually pretty similar to git. Every user runs a data repository where commits to the repository are signed. The data repositories are synced between nodes to exchange data, and interactions are committed as records to the repositories. The purpose of the data repository is to create a clear assertion of t

Okay well. I work on Bluesky and helped build the AT Protocol. I'm sorry Sam dif... | Hacker News Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login pfraze on May 9, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit Okay well. I work on Bluesky and helped build the AT Protocol. I'm sorry Sam differs with us on this, and I'm glad that Activity Pub is already there for him. However, Sam doesn't understand the ATProto very well and I want to clear it up a bit. Before I do, let me just say: Bluesky and the AT Proto are in beta. The stuff th

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