Comment by vivzkestrel a day ago
whats with the sudden upsurge in interest in ATProto related stuff on HN? Not that I am complaining. I am glad to see something else take AI's spot but just curious. Last month or so has been very busy with something or the other ATProto related
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.
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?
just a theory, but as atproto matures, there are now other example projects using the protocol for other things besides "distributed twitter clone". for example, tangled was talked about yesterday. [1]
and that probably came up because more people are wondering about the future of github as it becomes more integrated into microsoft. as things become more centralized, interest in decentralization goes up.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543899