The Atmosphere — built on AT — presents a new approach to social graphs. When you write data using Atmosphere APIs, such as by posting to Bluesky, that data is associated with your personal data repository. These personal data repositories can be hosted or migrated anywhere across the Atmosphere. Each Atmosphere app declares its own schema (Lexicon), and reads and writes its own set of fields. These fields can be read by any other app built on the Atmosphere, allowing users to both a) own and b) span their graphs across the network.
This talk will provide a demonstration of some fundamental AT technologies, including:
- "Sipping the Firehose" - working with the stream, a demo of creating records and have them pop right out
- “Getting backlinks with Constellation” - querying social interactions in real time, and building that data into different interfaces
- “Lexicon Authoring” - a discussion of best practices for creating additional schemas, with examples from other apps in the Atmosphere
