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by cchance 460 days ago
Its popular now because its showing up in tools people use so more backends are releasing MCP servers to access them, most are free so doubt its more than just a new fancy tool that people are excited about.

As for authentication most are locally run, or run on generic data like running a nodejs server mcp would be used locally by a team not exposed on the internet so access restrictions arent really needed