It never catches on with application developers because it requires you to already worship the protocol and build around it.
I think you might mean, “people who disagree with me intensely because they believe strongly in the way they view things.”
Atproto is very, very far from a cult. It is a bunch of poasters, though, and nobody should be surprised when a social protocol has a bunch of, well, really social people in its leadership, and you shouldn’t expect them to act like senior leadership of Intel, IBM, or Nvidia.
The fact Paul makes jokes on a social forum at or with people is a reminder that he’s a human. He’s smart, passionate, nerdy, talented, and sometimes extremely annoying, much like everyone else here, and I’m GLAD the leadership of the company and the protocol are as engaged with the community as they are.
It’s a social protocol, for god’s sake. Remember when everyone would complain that the people who ran Twitter would never use it? I do, and just because Elon is down the K-hole and a posting menace doesn’t mean the criticism was incorrect.
(see his peer comment flagged by the community here)
Tell that to LSP, QUIC, SPDY, GraphQL, WebRTC, BitTorrent, HTTP/2, and other protocols.
I guess they weren’t “open” either for the first 5-10 years of their existence either?
Weird.
It really seems you all think the only company or community doing anything on atproto is Bluesky, when that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Have you even paid attention to what’s happening lately?
When it comes to private/permissioned data, Bluesky people have decided the shape it will take while not participating in the conversation until they shared their already decided upon design. They are letting the community give feedback, but the community never was able to participate in the design phase.