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POSSE and AT Protocol can be understood as interoperable marketplaces. Platforms like Reddit and Instagram already function this way: the product is user conten
by theturtletalks 9mo ago
POSSE and AT Protocol can be understood as interoperable marketplaces. Platforms like Reddit and Instagram already function this way: the product is user content, the payment is attention, and the platform’s cut is ads or behavioral data. Dan argues that this structure is not inevitable. If social data is treated as something people own and store themselves, applications stop being the owners of social graphs and become interfaces that read from user-controlled data instead.
I am working on a similar model for commerce. Sellers deploy their own commerce logic such as orders, carts, and payments as a hosted service they control, and marketplaces integrate directly with seller APIs rather than hosting sellers. This removes platform overhead, lowers fees, and shifts ownership back to the people creating value, turning marketplaces into interoperable discovery layers instead of gatekeepers.
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- dharmatech 9mo agoWas going to ask this but then I found openship in your profile. Will check it out. Thanks!
- dharmatech 9mo agoThis is a nice introduction: https://openship.org/about https://openship.org/about
- ivell 9mo agoYou may want to take a look at India's ONDC (https://github.com/ONDC-Official https://github.com/ONDC-Official).
- sfdlkj3jk342a 9mo agoSounds interesting, but I can't find any links to an actual live B2C storefront..
- phanimahesh 9mo agohttps://ondc.bajajfinservmarkets.in/ https://ondc.bajajfinservmarkets.in/ https://www.mystore.in/en/ https://www.mystore.in/en/ Listing of apps at https://www.ondc.org/ondc-buyer-apps/ https://www.ondc.org/ondc-buyer-apps/
- articsputnik 9mo agonot sure if you understood the article, isn't the whole point to own your data as "it's just a filesystem". Reddit, Instagram, etc. are the total opposite.
- theturtletalks 9mo agoYes, I should have been clearer. Reddit and Instagram do not operate this way today, but open social alternatives to them could. The idea is that people create personal websites where posting, commenting, and other social actions live, and that becomes the filesystem they own. Open social networks would simply index or pull from those sites using agreed-upon lexicons and protocols. Existing platforms could either adopt the open social model, or, more realistically in the short term, be treated as syndication targets where posts are pushed via their APIs when someone publishes on their own site.
- danabramov 9mo agoYeah, that's what I was trying to say with the article. And this is not theoretical, all of these apps work this way: https://bsky.app/ https://bsky.app/, https://leaflet.pub/ https://leaflet.pub/, https://tangled.org/ https://tangled.org/, https://semble.so/ https://semble.so/, https://blento.app/ https://blento.app/ (new one). It's definitely possible!
- theturtletalks 9mo agoYes I'm loving the growth in this space. I'd also throw Standard.site[0] into the mix, it seems to be the lexicons Leaflet and some other apps are using. 0. https://standard.site/ https://standard.site/