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Are there any atproto apps that use records from competitors? This ecosystem won't feel open to me until @bsky.app uses something from outside the `app.bsky` namespace as part of its core experience

The customer has the data in their account and can seamlessly move between apps. So they compete on product and feature set and preferred UI. Semble, Margin, and other bookmarking apps all have some shared lexicon usage. A bunch of event apps use the @lexicon.community event lexicon.

lexicon.community is super cool. Am I wrong in thinking we should deprecate most app-driven lexicons (even `app.bsky`) in favor of separately governed efforts like this? bsky.app/profile/lava...

No, lexicons are the jungle! We do want product teams to make their own decisions and compete. Lexicons don’t have moats and can be re-used and remixed. On the other hand, we formed @lexicon.community to start the path of seeing what community collab looks like, exploring early governance

I'm definitely not advocating for a single source of truth! Just trying to reason about whether it makes sense for apps to own their lexicons My gut says there can be more innovation in the tweet space if bluesky forfeits full control, and same for any other app that created its own standard

Standards comes from usage. And evolves from usage. You can also add fields to records — eg use bsky posts but then add community .lexicon .location Or add a new kind of embed that plays in some clients and is ignored by others. So no innovation blockers.

That makes sense! I'm optimistic, and crossing my fingers for the day when bsky.app uses a variety of lexicons as part of its core experience