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              "plaintext": "I've been seeing alot of non-social media, non bluesky, ATProto websites/apps popping up. You're probably reading this on one right now!"
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              "plaintext": "All of them sign in with your pds and store the data to your same account. Which can be owned by you if you choose."
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              "plaintext": "I hope for a future where tons of websites and apps use ATProto in some way, even atleast for public data storage or even just signing in. Its a great feeling to really own my accounts and own my data. All under the same name too; my domain!!"
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              "title": "Internet Handle",
              "description": "Every time you sign up for a new social app, you have to rush to\n                claim your username. If someone else got there first, too bad.\n                And that username only works on that one app anyway.",
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              "plaintext": "Here's a great page explaining that. I think it would be awesome if everyone had their own domain, and therefore internet handle."
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              "plaintext": "I really love all of this, so much that I believe this could be a whole new era of the web if done right. So..."
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              "plaintext": "I call it: Web8, or Web∞"
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              "plaintext": "or Web 8.0.."
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              "plaintext": "because Web3 was a disaster, and Web4 is even worse...\nand also 8 because if you flip it sideways, its an infinity symbol ∞"
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              "plaintext": "I actually wanted to coin Web4, but that was already coined for AI slop (makes sense 🤦🏾‍♀️). But I'm glad, because Web8 sounds way cooler, and the meaning behind it is even better!!"
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              "plaintext": "Now I hope people see this and it catches on, I can't actually contribute anything to this (I barely know html 😭😭). But it would be really cool.\n\nHere's some more cool articles that explain this way better than I did. I mainly just wanted to share the name I thought of and my growing love for ATProto and open source!"
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              "plaintext": "Thanks for reading! Have a nice day."
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  "description": "web8 ftw!!!!",
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