All I can find are third party apps for Bluesky but I can’t find anything like a Lemmy style service or Instagram style service using the AtProtocol
They are the only ones IIRC
Are there any other services that use the AtProtocol other than Bluesky?
Submitted 2 months ago by xnx@slrpnk.net to fediverse@lemmy.world
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Blaze@feddit.org 2 months ago
ericjmorey@discuss.online 2 months ago
Not yet
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 months ago
No, because the AT Protocol is not designed for interoperability, but rather for entrenching the silo owned by the main node (BlueSky) whilst giving the illusion of being decentralised. It’s to decentralised social media what Microsoft’s OOXML file format (tl;dr: a memory dump of Microsoft Word’s internal data structures encoded in XML, and useless to anything that’s not Microsoft Word or a very precise emulation thereof) is to open document formats.
xnx@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
I don’t understand what the words in your comment mean? Can you eli5
Someone shared different services using at protocol already
Link aggregator similar to lemmy: frontpage.fyi
Blogging service: whtwnd.com
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 months ago
Both of these services appear to be dependent on BlueSky. I.e., if BlueSky ceased existing, or cut them off from its API, they’d die.
One could theoretically make one’s own independent AT Protocol network, but not in a way that interoperates with BlueSky as a peer. You’re either a subsidiary part of its network or you don’t exist as far as it’s concerned, which is a much poorer value proposition than ActivityPub and related protocols.