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@tangled.sh is looking extremely cool, not just another "what if [app] but on atproto" project but truly integrating with the ideas behind the protocol

coolest atproto project bar none. correctly identifies that github is a centralised social layer on an otherwise decentralised protocol, and atprotoifies the social layer

Except the decentralized protocol already had a decentralized social layer… email. The original value-add of GitHub was not (directly) the social layer, it was the intuitiveness. That gave GitHub a critical mass. It became *the* place for development.

Any developer, *today* can pickup any one of a plethora of alternatives that are just as intuitive. It’s not that hard to switch, as git is a decentralized protocol. But they don’t because switching still incurs friction, however small.

And why would you switch? GitHub has remained remarkably unconventional. Perhaps Microsoft understands how remarkably little vendor lock-in it holds.

In sum, tangled feels like a solution in need of a problem. GitHub offers a thin social layer on top of a decentralized protocol. If GitHub is threatened, decentralized alternatives already exist. Afaik tangled has no discernible value-add over these alternatives, other than “wow atproto”.