bryan newbold (vacation/travel until mid-January) 11 months ago

really solid overview of atproto Lexicon system, and the soft-power dynamics around them. I will link folks to this! a couple additional points in 🧵 RE:

Bluesky Social

Laurens (@laurenshof.online)

New: ATProto Explained - Lexicons New apps like @skylight.social and @reelo.app are building video for Bluesky and ATProto. I take a closer look...

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bryan newbold (vacation/travel until mid-January) 11 months ago

take care of yourselves, and each other

bryan newbold (vacation/travel until mid-January) 11 months ago

please don't use the bsky "search" endpoints as a generic API or for automation. it is not designed for that, is an expensive waste/abuse of resources, and we will block by IP or user agent. searches should come from direct human queries in the moment

bryan newbold (vacation/travel until mid-January) 11 months ago

@Laurens has his work cut out this week!

bryan newbold (vacation/travel until mid-January) 11 months ago

@Laurens: > I think the core value proposition of open social networks such as the fediverse and the ATmosphere is that they allow for new forms of governance, where people can be in control of their own digital spaces.

bryan newbold (vacation/travel until mid-January) 11 months ago

riffing on alt mod/community governance patterns: a member-supported org mod focus/scope would be lower-volume, high-context cases. more beefs and bad actors, less brigading, bot farms, or illegal content [...]

bryan newbold (vacation/travel until mid-January) 11 months ago

this year is going to be a real one, isn't it

bryan newbold (vacation/travel until mid-January) 1 year ago

we launched labeling and Ozone back in march 2024. there have been many ups and downs, and I think all of us are still learning. been getting more directed feedback from a few folks recently, want to summarize my own thinking on labels system in a thread. 🧵