[Proposal] Protocol-agnostic PDS

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I remember your work from the Summer of Protocols days; great to see you’re still at it!

While not the same thing, this seems related:

The Case For Universal Login and "Off-Protocol" Services

Noe this post is also available on Leaflet: For the last year, we have been working on Roomy with a clear integration to the ATProtocol. At the same time, we’ve also had a distinctly “off-protocol” strategy for data handling: we don’t store Roomy’s canonical data on the ATProto PDS. The reason for this is that the PDS because has shortcomings, such as a lack of private data, that make it unsuitable for Roomy’s needs. This is actually completely natural! Bluesky’s needs, such as distributin…

Speaking of RDF, we also had an insightful discussion about that not long ago:

Solid vs ATProto

Hey! I just recently read This is for Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee. It’s a phenomenal book and history of the web and I highly recommend it! He spends a good part of the book talking about SOLID: About Solid - Solid Project (not to be confused with the SOLID software design principles ) Looking into it it looks like it has super similar principles to ATProto, although it’s designed to be private by default. I’m still pretty new to ATProto, has there been any discussion on comparing/c…