Riffing on some ways to make network services more legible to humans and machines
Lexicon Garden is growing - Nick's Blog
Lexicon Garden is growing and moving! With community support, the service is migrating to new infrastructure in Europe, offering better hardware and more space for new features.
Giving Labels More Context - at:// pizza thoughts
A small tweak to the labeling system to allow richer context and annotations
Community Spaces on AT Protocol - at:// pizza thoughts
Scaled-down design patterns
InnerNets - Make internet personal again
Our mission is to bring the right information to the right person, in the right way.
Blog | Lexicon Community | Offprint
A working group that stewards a shared namespace for AT Protocol schemas: built in the open, governed collectively, and free for anyone to use.
A folksonomy of lexicons - Chris's Corner
On the design and intent of different lexicons
The book — Good Services
“This book is long overdue. It will become a must-read for the service design community, but this book is also for everyone working with services”
atproto made simple: publishing lexicons - underreacted
atproto made simple: publishing lexicons - underreacted
There are a lot of architectural bits, but if I had to pick one design feature it's Lexicons. Lexicons allow for new shared data types and structures in a way that are immediately available on network for any other service provider to adopt. Getting shared agreement in ActivityPub is hard.
Pedro Vezza
Why did you decide to bet on atproto over Mastodon or similar?
Once you experience shared lexicons and the benefits of a single portable identity, it feels like a new open network. But the most important part is that it practically works as an extension of the web. We can add social features to our websites without even mentioning atproto. Frictionless adoption
Paul Frazee
The Atmosphere is a new open network. The features: - Your account works on all atmosphere apps - You can switch to a new provider with no fuss - Easy to make your own apps on it - Works great with personal websites And, Bluesky is an atmosphere app.
