The internet has become a collection of walled gardens where users' content is locked into platforms, and AT Protocol fixes this by giving every user a portable, app-agnostic JSON storage layer on the web.

3:11like in the matrix in the movie like there's this uh question like uh have you ever felt that like something is wrong with the world? Uh, and it's kind of like this but for the internet, right? Like internet, especially like if you grew up with the internet, I think you kind of maybe remember it as this uh maybe more light-hearted thing where you know like you you like create a website,

3:35you like post something to it like you can link to each other. It's very permissionless. It's very much kind of like there's this spirit of like open, you know, openness and uh no like world gardens. And then with time in a sense it's gotten more social right like social networks and so on. So like we've gotten like shared spaces but then these shared spaces they feel like internet

3:58inside of internet like you know different world gardens uh like Facebook or Twitter where we're going to put our stuff there you know like I I put like my answers on Stack Overflow or my issues on GitHub or like my like posts on Reddit or somewhere else. But then with time these platforms they kind of you know they fatten up with like everyone's content and then they start

4:23doing you know they're like shutting down alternative clients >> start showing like ads everywhere trying to milk you know everything that and like we can't really like walk away from them because then we're going to erase everything that we created there. So, in a sense, it's kind of like we put our stuff into somebody else's box and then this box is just, you know, it's not on

4:45the open web anymore. It's kind of there's like a ghost of it on the open web, you know, like the >> the projections like the HTML that you can hit through the servers, >> but like in a sense, it's like it's it's locked somewhere somewhere else. >> And the big thing about that PRA is it's kind of like a data layer for the web is how I like to think about it. M

5:06>> so it's kind of like what if that JSON that we usually put into uh like other products into their boxes what if that JSON just you know hung on the web like that JSON was part of the web uh kind of like in the personal sites era but um you know you still can use apps of course so like apps are kind of the consumption and production model but it

5:30lives sort of like in everybody's like it's it's like if everybody had a Dropbox folder that all apps apps can kind of interact with and then you can always leave an app but your stuff is still going to be in that folder and so other apps can kind of you know present it differently or even like write to it differently and different apps can see each other's content and and kind of

5:52interoperate so it's yeah I think of it as like people centric kind of [snorts] part of the web that that is missing to you know that is necessary to fix these like network effects where we get locked into platforms. >> Man, I I wish like people always say the internet is forever. Um, and like anything you put on the internet will will always be around and like show me