this weeks bluesky and atproto news: - Bluesky adds age verification system to comply with new UK law - Eurosky is a new initiative from to build a commons content moderation system in the EU - Bluesky aims to be the place for US soccer conversations [connectedplaces.online/reports/blue...](
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Bluesky Report – #125
Bluesky announces age verification system for UK users, Eurosky is a new project that works on a shared content moderation system, and more collabo...
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Bluesky Report – #125
Bluesky announces age verification system for UK users, Eurosky is a new project that works on a shared content moderation system, and more collabo...
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agreed with Roscoe, this proposal needs more conversation, especially considering it effectively creates a new set of authorities on the network with no explanation of how governance of such a new authority would work RE:
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Roscoe Rubin-Rottenberg (@knotbin.com)
#ATProto developers: please go look at the proposal for auth scopes. It's really important and has very little feedback on its discussion page. I h...
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this week's fedi news: - Mastodon latest update brings more customisation - [mastodon.social](
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 ) unclear if/how they'll comply with UK's Online Safety Act with age verification - more on why C2S is the neglected second half of ActivityPub [connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...](
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Fediverse Report – #125
Mastodon's new 4.4 update brings new customisation features, the UK's Online Safety Act comes closer with not a lot of clarity within the...
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Fediverse Report – #125
Mastodon's new 4.4 update brings new customisation features, the UK's Online Safety Act comes closer with not a lot of clarity within the...
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πŸ—žοΈ New essay Bluesky and Mastodon users have drastically different perceptions to the UK's new age verification laws: either treating their platform is exactly the same as a Big Tech platform, or assuming their network is so different the laws dont apply [connectedplaces.online/age-verifica...](
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Age Verification Laws: Are the New Social Networks Different, Or Not At All?
Bluesky and Mastodon have drastically different perception on Age Verification Laws: either just as the Big Tech platforms, or so different to be o...
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Age Verification Laws: Are the New Social Networks Different, Or Not At All?
Bluesky and Mastodon have drastically different perception on Age Verification Laws: either just as the Big Tech platforms, or so different to be o...
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ive not followed this very closely, looking for some take on this by people who understand the field. the factsheet sounds pretty good tbh, but want to know if im missing something RE:
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European Commission (@ec.europa.eu)
πŸ”ž We go to great lengths to protect our children in the physical world, so why let them access harmful content online? We’re launching the fi...
ATmosphere Report - this week's bluesky and atproto news: - More notification settings for Bluesky - How atproto is becoming a place to build multiperson LLM chatbots - Bluesky's proposal for Auth Scopes also introduces new questions for governance [connectedplaces.online/reports/atmo...](
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ATmosphere Report – #124
Bluesky adds more notification settings, on chatbots and Bluesky, and a proposal for Auth Scopes brings new questions on sources of authority.
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ATmosphere Report – #124
Bluesky adds more notification settings, on chatbots and Bluesky, and a proposal for Auth Scopes brings new questions on sources of authority.
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just watched my local garden toad casually slurp up a 20cm long worm
gm, i log in and see everyone talking about how grok is fully fascist now. the article i wrote yesterday is about how the dynamic of "musk does bad => people go to bsky" is now over, and how this mechanism was a reflection of a particular moment in time RE:
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Laurens (@laurenshof.online)
Bluesky and the fediverse have constructed a narrative of how growth of the networks happen: when Musk does something particularly evil or stupid, ...
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Bluesky and the fediverse have constructed a narrative of how growth of the networks happen: when Musk does something particularly evil or stupid, people migrate in a wave looking for an ethical alternative. But what happens when that pattern breaks down? [connectedplaces.online/growth-narra...](
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Growth narratives on the new social networks
The narratives that networks like the fediverse and Bluesky have about themselves how their network grows are a snapshot of a specific moments in t...
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Growth narratives on the new social networks
The narratives that networks like the fediverse and Bluesky have about themselves how their network grows are a snapshot of a specific moments in t...
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This week's Bluesky and atproto news: - Bluesky as a destination for sports and political campaigns - What impact does Brazil's latest Supreme Court ruling has on Bluesky? - New tool to connect your atproto account with your ethereum wallet [connectedplaces.online/reports/blue...](
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Bluesky Report – #123
Bluesky is slowly growing into a destination for sports, questions on the impact of Brazils Supreme Court ruling on Bluesky, and connecting your AT...
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Bluesky Report – #123
Bluesky is slowly growing into a destination for sports, questions on the impact of Brazils Supreme Court ruling on Bluesky, and connecting your AT...
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