Comment by danabramov
1 day ago
I think partially it's because momentum is picking up in the AT ecosystem.
Since all data lives in a single conceptual space, you start seeing community services like https://constellation.microcosm.blue/ (backlinks without running your own index), https://slices.network/ (indexes data you want and gives you a GraphQL/REST endpoint), independent relays (https://atproto.africa/), and so on.
To give you an example, https://slices-teal-relay.bigmoves.deno.net/ is a demo of Slices showing the latest teal.fm records (like Last.fm scrobbles). The thing is, teal.fm is not even launched as an app. It's just its developers already listen to music through it, the records get created in their repos, and so any other developer can aggregate their records and display them.
It's a web of realtime hyperlinked JSON created by different apps. That's exciting.
I wonder if one could perhaps create an RSS reader app by piggybacking on ATProto purely for broadcasting change events, with the feed themselves still located at their traditional address? Basically reviving Google Reader on ATProto infra.
thank you for sharing these links, if it isn't too much to ask, could you or someone reading this compile a list of useful / interesting ATproto endpoints for HN?