Ah! I don't know what's going on just yet but I'm looking forward to what's next!!

oh hell yeah let's gooo 

This makes me nostalgic for 2nd/3rd gen but honestly I would argue this started a lot with the lessons not learned from BLACKPINK 

Not planning one but damn I should be lmao 

these are sooo gorgeous 

Yes I love using the iframes because it enables the usage of widgets and you can just build mini things too and pop them inside. 

This is probably the closest to my belief on this shit that nobody will listen to me about without me having to put a book's worth of caveats because we live in the eternal bean soup discourse era of the internet 

There's a forum called melonland around the indie web that does Wednesday website club for that if you're interested! 

Recently I bought the weekly muji and I've been really enjoying the system I've made. Basically I have the artist of life monthly/annual planner then the muji weekly a5 weekly and I the overall similar enough the hobonichi without the price tag that I can afford. I even bought cute stamps for it and for some reason stamping the day done really helps

Dunno if this is helpful for you but I try and update once a week just to keep stuff jogged in my head

thank you, thank you

whoops that's a big bad on my part thanks for letting me know 

yessss I been saying that people gotta start talking about things other than atprotocol... on atprotocol 

I'm a UX designer too! There's like 5 of us in the community! 

It's hard because most open source projects are openly hostile to suggestions to usability (LMAO one ATproto dev started an entire online lynch mob about it on me, but fuck em) 

Thankfully most of the community is really open to the usability feedback, if you live in a hub where there's meetups going on also you could give talks or just provide feedback

I definitely want to make a follow up post talking about the market conditions in a more serious, less conversational manner because I think charting where exactly we are in the product adoption cycle is incredibly important - but I have some core ideas I think we can really take going forward dev wise that will help all of the devs and help build a bridge, but also my head hurts lol. Again, thank you for writing the original piece because I think we're very aligned on what needs to happen I just wanted to give cross-cultural context that could help anchor that analysis! 

meant to say for silicon valley giants *it took years not weeks. Sorry lol

As a UX/product head and a creative director I've been thinking about this problem deeply and I think the problem is multi-fold and unfortunately, more cultural and design - which I think the dev community seems to chafe at... with all due respect. 

Everything I've seen about supper is perfect, but perfect apps go and die all the time - product and market adaptation is more about timing and positioning and requires enough people to move in lockstep to match that. Discoverability is the biggest issue from a ux perspective that we're facing as an ecosystem - and it's what is stopping large content creators from moving over and *staying* in the system. 

I've been speaking with creatives and content creators both in person (I recently had the chance to visit roughly 30 creative agencies in New York) and online, and there is a structural barrier for most professional creatives to leave places like Instagram - even I've faced it, to say,"You should add me on bluesky" is met why "I asked for your instagram" even applications for conventions, creative jobs, and events do not ask for personal websites. They ask for Instagrams. 

Twitter, tiktok, and Instagram and all of the silicon valley giants were not created in a day, it often took weeks. Tiktok had a faster ascent for example, only because its chinese predecessor - Douyin was already incredibly popular and users on the mainland were starting to bring it back over via youtube and shorts as well. Atprotocol devs seem to want to rush to the end, and secondarily, they think that the way the ecosystem will explode is by copying silicon valley giants - but that cannot work long term. Market pressures explicitly prevent it. 

Bluesky didn't get popular because of atprotocol, it got popular because Twitter was shitting itself super horrifically in many legal and UX ways and Bluesky was the closest replacement - and the bluesky staff seemingly can't understand that users really don't a give a fuck about anything to do with atprotocol because they just wanted twitter 2.

While there are basic commonalities between social media and web experiences - a button is a button of course, new social experiences start first by creating *new types of users that haven't existed before, with newly trained behavior* and often after, creating cultural artifacts that go along with it deeply influenced by the UX of that experience. Tiktok produces a pidgin language of 4chan speak and AAVE for example and memes. Youtube creates new genres of content like speedpaints, video essays, machinimas. Snapchat creates stories. Tumblr creates seapunk. The fact that the atmosphere isn't able to produce any cultural artifacts (yet) is a dire sign for all of us because it means that creators aren't producing culture out of new experiences. 

This is what prevents getting the ecosystem to a billion users - because often devs are trying to just create "X on the atmosphere" and the incredibly harsh truth is that users will inevitably return to the big evil silicon valley version of the thing every time because that's where the people are doing the thing that they already wanna do. We must create new experiences to train new types of users and produce a new type of culture. 

To quote Audre Lorde - "The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House" 

this would be killer for zines toooooo 

Definitely not engineer enough to argue the technicals here but as a UX person I do hard agree against universal spaces here. 

That doesn't solve the discoverability issue though and unfortunately it's not... Pretty. That's important to users