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Hello atmosphere ! Over the last few weeks, a bunch of us have been collaborating on a new set of lexicons for publishing, indexing, and building out social features across long-form reading and writing apps ! 🧵1/7

Hello Standard.site ! Please make my day and tell me that there is a repository somewhere with these definitions? ( I'll take @tangled.org or @github.com ) I've been generating a page for known lexicons, and want to make it a Standard.Site.

Now on tangled! tangled.org/standard.sit...

So, the lexicons themselves aren't on there. That repository is just the tooling to generate them. You can view them here though: lexicon.garden/identity/@st...

Aha lexicon garden ftw! Good call, will see if we can add em there directly :)

Yeah Lexicon Garden is a handy site. And/also, lexicon "self-discovery" should totally be a thing. Like I would possibly kill for a single standard endpoint on xrpc that outputted the lexicons for that site. Which brings up another standard.site idea... standard.site.service/endpoint ... ?

standard.site does have the DNS records setup for lexicon resolution, so all of their lexicon records are discoverable. standard.site > TXT _lexicon.standard.site > PDS collection "com.atproto.lexicon.schema"

Yeah this may have performance benefits but, IMO, is nowhere near as "discoverable" to the layperson as a standard endpoint.

Not sure lexicons need to be discoverable to lay people. They're developer tools.

Autogenerated UIs sound great! And yes, good descriptions and metadata are important there. Still, UIs are a far cry from the actual JSON lexicons themselves. I wouldn't expect non-technical people to ever have to find and read OpenAPI or JSON Schemas either.