[danabramov]

It's an early time but https://tangled.org/ (sort of like GitHub) and https://leaflet.pub/ (sort of like Medium) are pretty cool and useful, in my opinion. As it gets easier to start new apps (e.g. with tools like https://slices.network/ that take care of indexing the network) I think we'll see more apps built on AT.

In my article, I tried to explain how that works and what makes it possible. "Making it possible" is usually a prerequisite to the kind of broad adoption you're talking about.

What I agree about 100% is that "normal" users don't care about any of this. They just want good apps. The interesting thing about Bluesky, in my opinion, and what makes it different from crypto in your analogy, is that the vast majority of Bluesky users are "normies" in that sense. They couldn't care less about "decentralization" and some are even actively against the idea. But the decentralized nature doesn't directly "show up" in the product much, just like it doesn't "show up" when you browse the web and hop between servers. I think that's key to adoption--it needs to "just work" behind the scenes.

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Many (likely a majority) of crypto users are "normal" in that sense too, they just want to transfer funds and don't care about concepts like decentralization or privacy.

I attended DevCon and few other crypto dev events this year for work, and it was hilarious how few actual products were present.

I hope that AT / Bluesky doesn't fall into this same trap of iterating over the details of a protocol vs shipping apps that people actually want to use.

For me personally a slightly less toxic twitter isn't that app, but when something comes along that is I'll likely setup a domain for AT.