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Ben kindle
@literalpie.bsky.social

I almost suggested this! but talked myself out of it. Wouldn’t a lot of the benefit of the proto be lost because we don’t actually _want_ multiple apps to be able to write data? (Since only one version of the game exists) Would there be much benefit of using the proto here vs. a classic DB+oauth?

Alana Purdy’s Husband ⁂
@tynanpurdy.com

There are multiple wins. A big one is my scores live with me rather than some database that Hank has zero interest in maintaining. Another is that now becomes a social object associated with my Bluesky account and you can do stuff with that in other spaces.

Ben kindle
@literalpie.bsky.social

Okay I see what you’re saying. I was jumping too far thinking about score validation and scalable friend-score-lists, but if we choose to trust the users (it’s low stakes anyway) and accept suboptimal performance (it’s just a toy project) it would definitely be doable with no db. Cool!

Ben kindle
@literalpie.bsky.social

And back to the unique benefits of AT proto, if someone else wanted to put the work in to make a db for better scaling of the score tracking of your network, we could without Hank needing to worry about it