Yeah the typical issue of "they could go bad" is always present.
Really that's internet services history in a nutshell. You use the thing, you move when you feel motivated.
Really that's internet services history in a nutshell. You use the thing, you move when you feel motivated.
It's the nature of the internet now.
Granted network effect does "work" to some extent.
Geocities is out there for download, but ... still not the same, even with Internet Archive doing its thing.
It's at least refreshing to see Bluesky PBC try to prevent it by setting up guardrails themselves, like allowing people to host their data somewhere else, which seems to work today already.
Here's to hoping the federation stuff shapes up nicely too.
Getting together to show and talk about building the next gen of social media
https://atprotocol.dev/atmosphereconf-confirming-date-seattl...
I'd recommend
- getting on the ATProto dev Discord: https://discord.gg/VweB8gn5
- getting involved with: https://github.com/lexicon-community/lexicon
- using the #ATProtoDev hashtag
There is a lot of overlap in the people and the developer community is starting to snowball