Hey!

I love the overall energy and thinking. Just making some assorted notes, hopefully you find them helpful!

- I think it's best to avoid the "Will Win" framing of the working title. It immediately makes the whole thing about competition, about a zero-sum game. I don't think it is. Same with "AT Protocol is the future of open social." I don't think that we need to antagonise the AP people, it just weakens us all and bystanders will conclude we're all assholes. Something I've been mulling over (and I think others too) is that AT isn't the future of social media — it's the future of the web. It eliminates domain authority, it guarantees user control over data, it avoids concentrating data value in single hands, it makes identity central: you say some of this already but my point this is the web but my point is that this is the foundation of a new web, one that works better, and I'd love to see the manifesto reflect this. Maybe the change in framing that this leads to is working title: "AT Protocol Is The Next Web: A Manifesto for Building in the Atmosphere" and "We believe that AT Protocol is the future of the web, built on social foundations as all human endeavors should be."

- I would move "AT Protocol incentivizes us to cooperate" up to be the first reason. Everywhere I go, people are desperate to do things together, to unite and make something work. I think this has strong appeal. As techies it's tempting to want to lay out the technical reasons why AT rocks first, but 1) techies have feelings too and 2) we should be trying to attract other communities too.

- I have smaller style notes if you're interested, but it might be easier to do that in a shared doc (and even easier to just ignore me).

Looking forward to signing this! Thank you for putting it together!