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GP just created an account to shitpost about ATProto out of desperation, what else can we expect from them. look at the username and account age, XD

Not sure how good of a social protocol it is, but I see ATProto/PDS as a possible succesor to solid [1], if they implment the permissioned data access model correctly. Which would certainly have a lot of good usecases, beyond social apps.

[1] solid: https://solidproject.org/about

lol, true! Even for a single side project, that probably no one is gonna use, I often struggle for hours while choosing a name, meanwhile these folks...

Except it isn't just working as a federation protocol here, it is also acting as an identity provider and a data store for you social interaction on a repo.

Exactly, even if one doesn't know about either of these things (gleam & tangled), all it would take is one or two searches or even better they just visit the homepage. I suppose people have become so used to reading llm generated bluff that simple things don't appeal/make sense to them anymore.

Yeah it should definitely start with a bit of explanation, perhaps, it should start with what this site (hn, aka, hackernews) is even about!

Exactly, signal is decent on all the platforms, while mobile clients for whatsapp is somewhat tolerable if you ignore the constant AI push. But the web/desktop client is a pain in the ass to use.

Not at all, telegram clients in every platform are much much faster than whatsapp, signal etc. on the same platform. Although, this is more visible on older devices and on poor network conditions, I clearly see a difference in my newer devices too.

I'll add a few more:

- insanely fast search, chat history browsing and in app navigation - unlimited unencrypted cloud storage, your chats and docs always stays available - ability to send very large files - ability to host large video and voice chats - chat automation - auto translation and transcription - mini apps - open source client, with lots of customization - phone number less sign up (you can purchase a burner number from them and sign up with that, I guess it costs their crypto (ton) tho) - sending gifts

Both nostr and atp sucks at key management imo. The Farcaster network does a good job here with their chain of trust model and a smart contract on etherium blockchain to recover identities in case of losing access to a private key. Ironically its also the blockchain aspect of Farcaster for which I never tried it.

Except it isn't as straightforward as most people would think. The last time I checked this, I think there were some issues with Bluesky app view and it didn't show accounts from a self hosted PDS

I guess not! From pushcx's (mod) comment:

Between the threats in this post, this user only using their account to post this, their inviter (employer?) only using their account to promote their AI security scanner, I've gone ahead and handed out some user and domain bans here.

Iroh 1.0 1 month ago

Yes it does! I was trying to draw an analogy there, I think it would be better to state as - iroh is similar to WebRTC + PeerJS[1] which only works on browsers, generally[2].

[1]: PeerJS(https://peerjs.com/) is a library to use WebRTC w/o any boilerplate code. [2]: WebRTC functionality can be enabled in non-browser envs like Node.js by using third-party native addons (like node-webrtc) that provide bindings to the underlying C++ WebRTC library.