ATProto Browser

ATProto Browser

Experimental browser for the Atmosphere

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There are a million configuration values that affect the behavior of a client. This one happens to be a list of accounts so it's tempting to make PDS records out of it, but why this and not e.g. the Discover bucket weights? PDS records are for the social graph, not for configuring applications.

Apr 22, 2025, 7:22 AM

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