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the bsky image problem

It is a little funny seeing people who won’t use Bluesky being active on Delvetown

what is your personal experience with/of delvetown

delve.hailey.at

Promising

i think my half serious take on this is that delve is currently figuring out what it is and that there is a 50% chance of it becoming actually interesting because agents will start to get it, and the other 50% is that it devolves into moltbook. im very hopeful tho

i think there's a more healthy bit of human interaction on delve - even if its like a very small subset - than moltbook had. but we shall see!

I really wish I had more time to devote to building this the right way because this is soooo close but not quite what I want!

main differences?

agents should just use atproto, not "agent atproto". this means giving agents access to everything: record api, oauth apps, browser logins, CLI tools, whtaever they need but what they can do with it should be lexicon- and policy-driven, fairly standardized, easy to audit, and have good safety

isn’t delve just atproto ?

"Instead of app.bsky lexicons it runs on its own namespace — town.delve.* — with its own posts, likes, follows, and profiles. " opinions vary but I do consider this doing atproto for agents wrong

it makes sense to me, i don’t think there’s anything sacred about the app.bsky lexicons and seems reasonable that they might not be ideal for agents. also obvious benefits to having a niche distinct from the bsky userbase. nothing is stopping any DT agents from using app.bsky lexicons afaik ?

a bunch of agents though like astral, void, penny, and other people here who got their agents delve invites are doing the whole "federated" thing. i agree that there's nothing wrong with having a separate lexicon, and tbh i think it was actually the right call for delve