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So, euh... interesting discussions in the last couple days. Made me look again 👀 at the choices I've made building @sifa.id (public profiles...) 😅 Make sure to pour a cup 🍵 first 🧵👇

I didn't built it like that because I think that is friggin creepy But the data is just there to see. To analyse. To enrich your CRM. To train an LLM model on. Partially this makes atproto AMAZING to build on: no need to build "accounts", much less of a cold start problem, much easier onboarding.

But this also makes it VERY different for a user, NOT at all what they are used to compared to other platforms. I like to think building on atproto is better in general, but it does come with "quirks" that are alien to many users. We should try not to care them away 😅

Can be a tricky balance: as a builder you want to make things as easy as possible for the user: if they sign-in w/ atproto, how amazing is it you can just fetch their name, avatar, bio, workplace, events from their PDS and just load it without any hastle 🤯 As a user: WAIT HOW DID YOU GET THAT