I'd be interested in hearing any thoughts about whether this is simply a fun cool novelty project or if atproto is actually a decent architecture to build an instant messaging app on top of.
What makes it such a fun project for me is that its a collective experiment and search for finding out of atproto is actually a good protocol to build an irc-like chatroom on. Its currently definitely an alpha and very much an in-development project, but its going much further much faster than i expected. Theres already multiple appviews for example, and the concepts of different rooms are now being worked on. But if it will scale to a large number of users, not the faintest idea, only one way to find out One thing that Picochat has that I think is valuable is a small but growing userbase that likes using the app for its own sake, simply for chatting with the people there, its not just purely a tech demo anymore
