Emerging from being "down in the technical weeds" of #atproto is a little mashup of @semble.so & WayFinder (wayfinders.network) Semble team released "open collections" this week - here we explore the "private & permissioned data" collection, created by @bmann.ca & now with 3 other contributors

a little demo showing how the "weave" and "collection interest" creation works (the latter pre-dates Semble's open collections, and was/is intended to cluster people around shared interests to help identify potential collaborators) 1/2

Linking collections to collections 🤔 - (metacollections)

New Feature: Collections on Standard Reader. Curate articles from across the network into magazine editions. Include your editorial intro, notes on each piece, a closing statement and a theme. Publish as a series readers can follow. Tell a story. Check out the first one 👇

This approach to a data commons could extend to so many typically shared things. For businesses to easily and authoritatively publish things like open hours or product catalogs, discographies, every kind of -ography... creative appmakers could do so much with all that

I'm only JUST starting to explore @semble.so as a potential research tool but if anyone is curious to follow (I will be making many missteps, just to warn you 😉), you can find my Collections at semble.so/profile/debbieohi.com/collect…

i wonder how much of this can be prototyped in userland with no new ui eg just a thing that creates “collection” accounts operated by bots. curators can post stuff there by dm’ing the bot. as a reader, you follow the account, so naturally it plays into your Following and For You etc

helllll yeah. only thing I'd be missing now is: 1. media/content outside of links 2. saving other collections inside of collections god, its been so sick to see how this ecosystem continues to mature.