Happy Friday everyone,
First of all - wow! Just two weeks have passed since we released the open alpha version of Semble, and it’s been very exciting to see the engagement!
Feeling the ACI (Augmented Collective Intelligence)
We’re already seeing a steady stream of interesting curations, and we’re starting to experience the magic of more intentional online attention sharing.
Saved a podcast episode to Semble and realized @ronentk.me already saved it a few days ago. So cool to have access to these shared attention signals. This is only the start but I can already feel the collective intelligence emerging. semble.so/url?id=https...
Community hacking on Semble
One development we are particularly excited by is that people are already hacking on Semble to add various extensions and integrations! So much is going on that we created a Semble collection to track all those projects:
We also recently merged our very first community PR! Shout out to
@vielle.dev for making that happen!
PDS as Universal API
We recently shipped a firehose subscriber which listens for repository commits on network.cosmik.* records and automatically reflects these changes in Semble’s AppView:
What this means is that you can use your own PDS as a defacto Semble API (until we ship a more comprehensive AppView API). This is one of the really cools things about building on ATProto.
I just love how this works without there needing to be a Frontpage API PDS is the universal API
Or as Dan Abramov puts it in Open Social, "The protocol is the API.” Exciting stuff!
This is especially exciting for us because a few people have already asked us if it’s possible to support integrations with other bookmarking tools, for example to import bookmarks from apps like Raindrop. So to all the SenseMakers out there who like hacking on their knowledge tools — this is our first step in making that easier.
We’ve also published a lightweight PDS client purpose-built for working with Semble records in your repository. This makes it even easier to work with your PDS as a Semble API. Read more about how to get started with that in our docs:
Similar Cards
The Semble page got a new tab — “Similar Cards”!
The “Similar Cards” tab surfaces semantically similar URLs from across the network, adding a whole new discovery layer within the app.
Bluesky post view
Finally, we also have a special new view for Bluesky posts (identifiable by the 🦋) that better preserves the original structure and content:
Happy assembling!
We’re continuously blown away by the creativity of the broader ATProto community and are grateful for all those that have taken an early interest in Semble. We can’t wait to see what we create together 🫶
— Cosmik Team