[jimbobthrowawy]

mu.social is a "client".

An "AppView" is the API server that most clients connect to that aggregates data from the network and serves it in a more useful way. mu.social still uses bluesky's AppView (api.bsky.app).

The name is confusing. I thought clients were appviews myself for a while.

[danabramov]

I kind of started calling them all “apps” with true appviews being “independent apps”. I think sometimes it makes sense of think of this as an implementation detail. For example, Mu could actually switch to its own database if they do a bunch of technical work in the future. From the users’ perspective, it wouldn’t be noticeable.