curious who is using the graph protocol and for what... if you're actively using it, can you reply here?

I used the Graph before to bulk resolve ENS names. I don't agree with their move to deprecate the centralized graph hosting.

That sunsetting actually spurred a buddy to build Ponder, which is basically like a self-hostable Graph-compatible query service.

https://github.com/0xOlias/ponder

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do you know why they made that move? i’m not familiar at all, but it sounds like something that doesn’t actually need to be decentralized

IMO, putting decentralization on a pedestal over functionality.

If you make high cost decisions based on the read data, then it matters, but in that case you can read directly from chain or run your own indexing infra or something.