With the US news around TikTok, Bluesky and AT Protocol (ATProto) has seen a surge in interest in building video apps on Bluesky and ATProto. We’re seeing two different approaches: projects that build an app to display video’s posted on Bluesky (such as Skylight), and projects that are building their own video platform (such as reelo). The difference between these two approaches gets expressed by people asking the question: “does the project have their own Lexicon?”
In last week’s newsletter, I wrote this deep dive explaining how Lexicons are part of ATProto, and what they do. Lexicons are a part