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I’m just not understanding what standard site is. It lets you publish long form content which leaflet was already using, but what is different now?

It’s a shared format for blog discovery and subscription, so that wherever you post your blog, whether it be on your own website or with WordPress or leaflet or offprint or pckt or anything else, you can have the same distribution on this common social layer.

it feels like these things only ever cater to techbro types, and they’re the only ones getting excited about them if only techbros care about something, that’s a red flag to the average user. people who are too deep in techbro circles do not know what normal people are like, or what they want

ime atproto developers are the least tech bro coded people i’ve met in the space, all of them socially aware about the impacts of social media and are enthusiastic for bringing back an era of the internet where users are interconnected eg geocities/rss instead of siloed in platforms ljke today

there is a messaging problem, but i think people would want to own their own data, where users have control as to what platforms they allow, and people can be connected without platforms, no matter where they are online, all with one account, and i want that digital future for everyone

also not every feature is for every one That’s normal

When people start leaving X/Twitter, bsky.app and alternatives blacksky.community and anisota.net are ready!

When people start leaving Substack, standard.site and the stewards leaflet.pub, pckt.blog, and offprint.app are ready!

When people start leaving LinkedIn, sifa.id is ready!

Gonna be honest, Im not dismissive, but I dont totally get it. The announcement makes it look like auto generated og cards but I already have og cards. The website talks about lexicons leaving someone out of the know completely lost. I think there’s a better marketing opportunity to sell the benefit

For sure. Communications need to be targeted to readers and writers, not just devs. The new enhanced card helps people discover your whole blog whenever you publish a new blog post. It works with a shared language for defining publications that can work with any website or blog.

This post right here, I think does a better job explaining the value than most I’ve seen.

It's ok if it happens slowly. I do believe/hope that atproto (because of things like the single account, single "source of truth" of your own data, interop etc) makes it an incredibly sticky ecosystem. Once you go atproto, you don't want to go back to the silo!

Or I'm just naively still in that atproto honeymoon phase, let's see... 😅

If a person cares a lot about their data, indeed, it is hard to go back into the silo But if they don't care much about being siloed as they were over the last couple of years, having bad PR and relationship with them will definitely create an exodus from here and close the atproto door for them