* Hacker News clone: https://frontpage.fyi/
* Events app: https://smokesignal.events/
* Blog platform: https://whtwnd.com/
There's toooons of alternative clients, but that's not the same thing as "independent application."
If so, I think AT protocol needs to figure out how to make community hosted infrastructure easy, affordable, *and popular* before doing anything else, because it seems like it's just growing to serve Bluesky's app, and that's a flawed perspective of development for something like a general use decentralized social protocol.
I just feel like if bitcoin people weren't the norm on nostr, there wouldnt' be much of a case for bluesky. nostr pretty much opens up possibilities and is living currently in a proven and actively scaling decentralized ecosystem.