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Stephen Downes

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Bluesky's ATmosphere Protocol specifies something called 'lexicons'. "Lexicons are the part of ATProto that specify how an 'object' on ATProto works. For example, the Lexicon for a Bluesky posts specifies that it has to be contain text, that it might contain an image." This article describes lexicons and then uses that to show how some platforms using AT for video differ from each other: "Skylight uses Bluesky's Lexicon for videos (while) Reelo is creating their own Lexicon for videos." More on lexicons. A sample bookmark lexicon. Also, the lexicons GitHub.

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