I'm short on time again - had a wedding ceremony to attend last night and a reception to attend today - so today's another 5-minute throwaway. I set up a quick server prototype that I can run some basic curl commands to and from and that validates my lexicon schema. This is all local for now and not attached to a PDS, so URIs are fake.

lexicons.js:

import express from 'express'
import { TID } from '@atproto/common-web'
import { lex } from './lexicons.js'

const app = express()
const PORT = 3000

// In-memory storage for records
const records = new Map()

app.use(

Thanks to some helpful guidance from Bailey Townsend I discovered that the getProfile endpoint on my own PDS is just proxying the Bluesky API, which means that the point of failure is the Bluesky AppView. This is backed up by another post linked in the thread that directly states that once a did:web is deleted Bluesky's AppView treats that deletion as permanent.

Funnily enough I had theorized that this might be the case yesterday but then figured I was being dumb since I could run the request against my own PDS's API. AppViews are one of the more opaque