Weekly “what are you reading” Thread #32

currently reading a documentation on ATproto. It's a nonfiction about communication and transportation, and it is a postmodem reflection of how conversations may be documented and organized in a way which allows it to be shared with a model that can accommodate millions of people. Tbh I expected a lot of boring boilerplate but the more I read, the more it kind of just starts to make sense. I do think the author could have done a better job with some of the descriptions (or lack thereof). A few times now I've had to ask some other people who are also reading it for help understanding some of the odd phrasing.

It's interesting because this isn't the first of its kind. This particular author thought to use the information from what systems exist, and attempt to give it a rebirth. Rebirths of complex systems are always pleasant to see, when it can reproduce the original system's output and not be constrained by its predecessors' pillars. Also they tend to be easier to understand.

It's very easy to document and share thoughts between a few hundred people but once that number becomes in the millions, a lot of unique challenges emerge, so seeing a log for what they are and how to solve them is pretty neat (it's unfinished, but the releases are semi-frequent so that's a plus)