irelephant [he/him]Atproto is getting an ietf working group
JteeAtproto (protocol powering bluesky) will be further developed and standardized by the ieft (Internet engineering task Force), a group separate from the for-profit bluesky PBC
MissesAutumnRainsOh that’s so amazing! I’ve been smitten with AT Protocol since I learned about it from their paper. I have such high hopes it gets more widespread.
What’s good about it and what’s it good at?
The thing that I love about it is that you can host your own account. So if Bluesky decides that they are huge fans of fascism, you can take your account and move to a competitor, Redsky, and not lose your posts, messages, follows, etc (assuming those people also move to the new platform)
So, your account can be the same between any number of platforms, you just have to let the platform add it to their list so their crawlers can show your activity.
So, like Lemmy, you can host your own “node” (I forget what they call it. A box that can whitelist, crawl, and display accounts that people want to be visible there) but you can also just host your “account” and you can bring it to whatever platform you want and people can be confident they’ve found the same person.
this portable identity feature has existed for a number of years in hubzilla, its implemented as its own ‘zot’ protocol, offering nomadic identity as well as account cloning(redundancy).