At Protocol: Building the Social Internet

NiallBunting an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I think it would be interesting if the file servers had read/write/list/delete permissions on files. For both groups and users.

It would mean the public stuff could see your files but private projects could exist. Eg. Maybe I don't want my At Protocol version of Figma making all my drawings public. If they could be shared in a group (anyone in a list in that folder or whatever).

Maybe this is coming, but would interest me way more about using applications on the atmosphere.

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phyzix5761 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I didn't understand what this was until I did some more digging around.

Apparently, it's a decentralized way to interact with social media. A protocol created by Bluesky which allows social networks to communicate directly. This is similar to how different email clients like Gmail and Outlook can send messages to each other.

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HelloUsername 39 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Previous discussion in 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33252108

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thesuitonym 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I often wonder if people have forgotten that you can send information through the internet without HTTP(S)

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embedding-shape 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Since others starting intercepting and eavesdrop on non-authenticated traffic, it got a lot less comfy to do so though. It's not like people are adding encryption to stuff for the fun of it.

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mghackerlady an hour ago | parent | next [-]

it's not impossible to implement encryption elsewhere, gemini pretty famously requires it

	▲	embedding-shape 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Of course not, the context here is ATProto which literally stands for "Authenticated Transfer Protocol", and it uses other protocols than just http/tls, so of course there are other ways :)

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riffic an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

it seems the parent comment isn't referring directly to encryption / TLS, but building everything on top of HTTP / HTTPS, which seems to be the default abstraction these days to build on top of.

	▲	rapnie 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I agree, it is always HTTP nowadays. The Librecast project [0] is doing interesting R&D around multicast and social networking, and has been / is being funded by multiple NLnet grants over the years. I think they have plans to use ActivityPub to demonstrate their work. Current active project is LibreCast Studio, a collaboration environment. The linked video on the page is a very interesting watch. [0] https://librecast.net/about.html

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danhon 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Those of you old enough to remember etherpeg can now see an ATproto version:

https://bsky.land

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binyu 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is really cool. It has retro vibes of the era when the Internet was still free from the big five domination.

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mghackerlady an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I could see this turning into a more modern and sane usenet replacement