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So, euh... interesting discussions in the last couple days. Made me look again 👀 at the choices I've made building @sifa.id (public profiles...) 😅 Make sure to pour a cup 🍵 first 🧵👇

I could show up live Sifa profiles for all ~46M accounts today: your avatar, your photos, your music, every app you once used and how often, every post you've made. Without you ever having been to sifa.id ... 😱 "no permission needed, it's all public already"

But this also makes it VERY different for a user, NOT at all what they are used to compared to other platforms. I like to think building on atproto is better in general, but it does come with "quirks" that are alien to many users. We should try not to care them away 😅

Can be a tricky balance: as a builder you want to make things as easy as possible for the user: if they sign-in w/ atproto, how amazing is it you can just fetch their name, avatar, bio, workplace, events from their PDS and just load it without any hastle 🤯 As a user: WAIT HOW DID YOU GET THAT

// as a sidenote: this made me think of the webcomic "User Friendly", remember that one? 🖤 Dust puppy Great way of showing my age I guess.... anyway.... //