Are there any other services that use the AtProtocol other than Bluesky? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by xnx@slrpnk.net to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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All I can find are third party apps for Bluesky but I can’t find anything like a Lemmy style service or Instagram style service using the AtProtocol

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[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 12 points 2 weeks ago

No, because the AT Protocol is not designed for interoperability, but rather for entrenching the silo owned by the main node (BlueSky) whilst giving the illusion of being decentralised. It’s to decentralised social media what Microsoft’s OOXML file format (tl;dr: a memory dump of Microsoft Word’s internal data structures encoded in XML, and useless to anything that’s not Microsoft Word or a very precise emulation thereof) is to open document formats.

[-] xnx@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t understand what the words in your comment mean? Can you eli5

Someone shared different services using at protocol already

Link aggregator similar to lemmy: https://frontpage.fyi/

Blogging service: https://whtwnd.com

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Both of these services appear to be dependent on BlueSky. I.e., if BlueSky ceased existing, or cut them off from its API, they’d die. In that way, they’re not that different from “Log in with Facebook” or similar.

One could theoretically make one’s own independent AT Protocol network, but not in a way that interoperates with BlueSky as a peer. You’re either a subsidiary part of its network or you don’t exist as far as it’s concerned, which is a much poorer value proposition than ActivityPub and related protocols.