Looks like someone's built a Reddit-like on top of ATProto. Would be really interesting to see whether it could interact with the threadiverse through something like BridgyFed, which currently only works with microblogs (I think?)

Opportunity? Existential threat? You decide...

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[–] julian@activitypub.space 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In a nutshell, it's because you don't have to build the entire kit and kaboodle all at once.

Lots of BlueSky is centralized so you don't have to worry about distribution, user, hosting, scaling, etc. and just focus on the frontend.

It's the same reason why all the Lemmy and Mastodon apps look way better than the web versions, because all those other parts are no longer relevant and the creator(s) can focus on just putting out a polished product.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I'd argue that the modular design is a more radical approach to decentralization.