why i think comparing atproto to email is confusing.
fedi is shaped like email (servers have inbox and outbox)
atproto is shaped like the web (you publish data, it gets indexed)
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web lets us put content online and link to each other. atproto adds directed data flow to the web. in atproto the data flows down — from hosting to aggregators. from people to apps.
i haven’t been keeping track but is Structured Concurrency in the talk the same one that Nathaniel Smith was explaining on his blog about Trio? i remember that was a fascinating post series
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i think it’s not that “choosing a server” is confusing to non-technical folks — it’s more that it does not have the same kind of consequences as on mastodon.
on mastodon, choosing a server is like choosing where to build a house. on bluesky, choosing a server is like choosing an internet provider.
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