Open Social — overreacted

Explores the concept of "open social" through the AT Protocol, drawing parallels between how open source transformed software development and how decentralized social networks could transform social media. The protocol enables users to own their social data in personal repositories while still enabling aggregation features like feeds and notifications. Users can migrate between platforms without losing their social graph, and applications can interoperate by sharing data formats. This approach aims to solve the vendor lock-in problem of current social media platforms where user data becomes trapped in proprietary databases.