Tag proposal: ATProto
24 points by mtset
24 points by mtset
ATProto, the Bluesky protocol, comes up quite a lot recently, and while it’s often posted under “decentralization,” I am one of (I think) a contingent of people who quibble with that designation and want to see other decentralization-related stuff but not ATProto itself.
name: atproto
description: “AT Protocol”
category: platforms, like wasm or merkle-trees
similar tags: merkle-trees (in that they could also be “decentralization” but not everyone who wants to see other decentralization content wants to see blockchain stuff), wasm, vscode (pretty specific technologies, which makes me think it’s okay to ask for tags for specific technologies)
recent candidates:
I think it puts a bit much of the onus on the part of the submitter to have to investigate a program’s protocol and check it’s not ATProto before tagging a cool submission on Lobsters. i.e. Tangled - it’s built on ATProto sure, but it’s software with the intent of creating a decentralised network. I could come across Tangled and submit it here and never know that it’s on ATProto instead of decentralised. I guess suggestions could fix that, but I don’t know if it’s that big of a deal?
6 months ago I suggested a Gleam tag because there were a lot of Gleam articles. Then they mostly stopped and now I feel a little silly for polluting the tag list. Is ATProto just temporarily popular enough a subject to spam lobsters for a while?
Edit: Ignore this entirely if @technomancy is correct in saying ATProto isn’t actually decentralised.
I understood that ATProto is not even decentralization. Anyhow, I would be in favor of this.
Should this be under „decentralized” or so?
A big part of the reason that I’m interested in an atproto tag is so that I can filter atproto but not the rest of decentralization.
Yeah, the atproto fans claim that it fits under decentralized but that claim doesn’t hold up to much scrutiny. I am very interested in decentralization but also not at all interested in VC-funded social networking, so I would love to be able to filter it out.
Edit: it’s linked above, but I’d draw attention to https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/ as a citation if anyone wants to confirm my claims because it makes the point much better than I could.
I 100% agree with you but it took your comment for me to realize that, on lobte.rs, you don’t want tag for things you like but, on the opposite, for things you don’t want to see.
For a tag to exist on lobste.rs, it must be related to enough content that annoy enough people.
I like it.
I’m not a fan of bluesky, but this feels like singling out one corporation. I think most bluesky articles are obviously about that network from their titles. However, I am in favor of a specific tag that marks articles about social networks in general, since bluesky and the social web have made this a hot topic recently.
I guess that means ActivityPub could also be due a tag then… although it seems that folks are saying they want to filter out topics, more than following them?
My understanding is that that is even the primary purpose of tags.
Tags on lobste.rs:
So they’re a bit all over the place, really. But I suspect the filtering aspect is used by more users.