ep.192『Walking Up the ATProto Stack with Dan Abramov』

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@theosteiner.de talked with @danabra.mov about the AT Protocol. Rather than a general overview, they walked up the stack layer by layer — comparing it with HTTP at every step — from AT URIs and records to DIDs, personal data servers, lexicons, and relays. This is an English episode. Guest Dan Abramov (@danabra.mov) Previously worked on the React team, then at Bluesky Now works part-time on the Next.js team at Vercel, and plans to relocate to Japan Writes about ATProto on his blog, Overreacted Walking up the ATProto stack What ATProto is "AT" officially stands for Authenticated Transfer, but the name also echoes the @ in usernames, because the protocol is fundamentally about identity A good protocol stays invisible. ATProto is a new way to build social apps, originally designed at Bluesky — and originally intended for Twitter itself Today, what you create stays trapped inside the app that hosts it: an answer on Stack Overflow, a comment on GitHub. ATProto lifts that content out into…