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while i've been loudly proclaiming in the atproto devs discord meetings that you probably don't need an appview for your atproto side project, i'm now also working on my own "atproto backend in a bottle" that runs on cloudflare workers 😅 still super WIP, but happy for any early feedback

sidenote: appview might be the worst atproto naming ever?! backend already exists as a name and while it might not be 100% accurate here (it only aggregates data from pds, not itself the source of truth) i guarantee no-one who doesnt know what an appview is would guess something even close

@jimray.bsky.team time for another bikeshed session? I think I saw "app server" used a few times in some blog posts, but that never got official

Before my time! Seriously, I also find the name a bit confusing though we might be kind of stuck with it, at least until atproto backend is popularly demanded