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it's starting to look less cockamamie, but my idea is to first get people looking at Atmosphere events through chicago.corkboard.at, then get enough venues/orgs to create their own @corkboard.at boards, then get event curators to provide recommendations on it, which will get users to join to follow.

Yes yes absolutely I really like this idea

Skywriting messages

I'm pretty sure I told Paul about my baby pictures theory a long time ago when he was still in Austin. I still believe that if you can convince new parents that your platform is the safest, cheapest, and easiest place to share baby photos, the grandparents will fly over any hurdle to see them.

make PDS hosting available on yunohost, cosmos, abra and so on

make an instagram alternative that's appealing to use

Apps like Grain aren't enough?

I think Grain is closer to Flickr than Instagram. Different stated audience.

We just gotta get everyone on grain!

*but sincerely sharing login to many different great apps. Sprinkle in some cross platform(™️) stuff and etc. I think for the most part if we build it, they will come. And by build it building great apps users love and want to have a login for

Actually a social meme sharing site would be a banger. Competitor to imgflip without watermarks & a social aspect!

Honestly I still think there’s some juice to getting influencers to act like we’re gatekeeping something and people feel like they’re pulling a fast one on Big ATProto

But I don’t know how to orchestrate such an elaborate psyop

Beyoncé joins Bluesky

Great thinking‼️‼️‼️‼️

I think we have to crack the sign up flow. We don’t need to pepper everyone with “this is the last account you’ll need” - we just need to get them to sign up to *a* PDS. Then, when FedCM support lands - auto logging in to that one account will see atmospheric usage go *stratospheric*.

Maybe (later), we’ll need a “consolidate all your many accounts that all have PDS data into one single account” - that’ll be a fun nut to crack.

I think this is the thing. Let people make accounts the way they know, then officer a “ooop; guess what, you can make these all the same thing!” Merging the accounts is pretty simple (smush the merkle trees together) but getting all the external references to point to the one true account…

i think zuck is going to need something stupid and elon is gonna need to have to force all users to look at his butthole everyday

I'm pretty convinced at this point that people would find a way to downplay the mandatory butthole. "I mean, yeah, it was shocking at first but it's usually the same image and honestly at this point you barely even notice it really"

All of us divide and conquer: We decide on consistent messaging for log in with atmosphere, and then ship simple, delightful “log in with atproto” PRs for *every* open source app. Bonus points if FedCM is ready, we add that too.

Seriously; we should have an “outreach” working group — people who build atproto features into existing open source apps. A group you can go to if you have a spare day or two for helping out; do some community support work and bring another app into the fold 😊

Old thread but I’d love to participate in something like this

we should tell everyone that ur here !!!

Every time a bad hurricane hits FL, an obscure chat app gets passed around as a way to stay in touch even when the internet is down. It's all misinfo, but it drives a lot of signups.

More serious answer, if there is big fandom activity on here, people will join it. I have a tumblr account that I stay on because the ability to do long posts and reblog them is super conducive to the type of squeeing about fandom that I enjoy.

Trebuchet

Oops okay I thought you meant atmosphere as in... space. I don't think you can trebuchet people into the ATmosphere the same way, unless you have some viral video challenge going on.

some type of secret rave network that also just happens to be on atproto. the people who use it dont care about atproto at all, they just want to go to the rave

I actually met someone at localfirst conf who proposed this lol www.ecstatic.world

@zachmiltz.bsky.social Maybe you can explain more

legislation that mandates monopolized apps integrate with open standards leading to implementation of atproto in existing apps

BlueSky has to show people that atproto exists. Rn you learn about it by luck, i guess majority of bsky users are not aware about atproto and how bsky relates to it. Bsky needs better way to include other apps. Good example is standard site highlighting.

More new ways to interact with atproto. Right now all apps are "pinterest on atproto", "twitter on atproto", "soundcloud on atproto", not interesting, because so few people are using them. There could be apps to interact with the protocol in itself, discovery apps, dashboards, cross-app stuff

Spreading the word like @danabra.mov been doing for last several weeks going to different podcasts. Learned most of the stuff from him. And last - money. Big players will come when they will see how they can make big money out of this, followers gonna follow.