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I feel like the charts could be clearer if they showed the primary user experience difference between RSS and AT/AP, which is how do the arrows flow for Bob's r
by threetonesun 3mo ago
I feel like the charts could be clearer if they showed the primary user experience difference between RSS and AT/AP, which is how do the arrows flow for Bob's response to Cat's post. I understand it fairly well for AP, I don't think I actually get it for AT.
- danabramov 3mo agoI have a different article that goes into this here: https://overreacted.io/open-social/#open-social https://overreacted.io/open-social/#open-social Also here: https://overreacted.io/a-social-filesystem/#links https://overreacted.io/a-social-filesystem/#links TLDR: at the hosting layer, it's like <a href> links, but in JSON. Links can refer to other person's repo (even if it's hosted somewhere else). And then apps index everything, so they can present a coherent aggregated view (like a post thread).
- threetonesun 3mo agoHah, well that's my bad for not reading articles I've saved, after reading those I remembered Puzzmo mentioned this recently and they, of course, got inspired by that second article: https://blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2026/03/02/atproto/ https://blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2026/03/02/atproto/