Comment on Atproto is getting an ietf working group

Jtee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Atproto (protocol powering bluesky) will be further developed and standardized by the ieft (Internet engineering task Force), a group separate from the for-profit bluesky PBC

  source

  • Jtee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Neat! So just more open development?

    source

    • irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep, and it’s by a group which has much less incentive to fuck the protocol up.

      source
  • MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh that’s so amazing! I’ve been smitten with AT Protocol since I learned about it from their paper. I have such high hopes it gets more widespread.

    source

    • trolololol@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What’s good about it and what’s it good at?

      source

      • MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The thing that I love about it is that you can host your own account. So if Bluesky decides that they are huge fans of fascism, you can take your account and move to a competitor, Redsky, and not lose your posts, messages, follows, etc (assuming those people also move to the new platform)

        So, your account can be the same between any number of platforms, you just have to let the platform add it to their list so their crawlers can show your activity.

        So, like Lemmy, you can host your own “node” (I forget what they call it. A box that can whitelist, crawl, and display accounts that people want to be visible there) but you can also just host your “account” and you can bring it to whatever platform you want and people can be confident they’ve found the same person.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
      • irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I really like how it splits data hosting an applications, you the only public facing part of the network you need to host is a pds, you can use clients that work entirely locally, such as appviewlite, or reddwarf.app.

        source