@sheislaurence did:plc is spinning out to an independent org, relays are only necessary for things at scale (& aren’t used for user discovery), and relays currently cost $20/month for 42M accounts.

I presented at Fedicon last year about a selection of the many apps being built https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/beyond-microblogging-atproto/

For completeness, because of account architecture, ATProto doesn’t have a private data option today.

@evan @sheislaurence that’s a sort of bookmark on my own site and is pretty protocol focused.

@sheislaurence I help support a number of ATProto community resources.

Community blog https://atprotocol.dev and forum https://discourse.atprotocol.community, and I have some collected bookmarks of good articles https://semble.so/profile/bmann.ca/collections/3m5u77miiyf2h

Fun fact: that Semble site is also ATProto powered and you use your same account to store bookmarks

@evan @quillmatiq @dansup well I regret getting tagged into this, I responded up thread.

Dan is yelling at ATProto rather than yelling at Bluesky which of course ends up hitting the very people that care.

@dansup @quillmatiq heya Dan! Going to do the mastodon/activitypub thing - I think you mean Bluesky

ATProto has a thriving community that I and others are part of.

I care about openness and the social web, which is why I spend time with the ATProto community

Feel free to yell at Bluesky-the-company