I think both AT and blockchain were strongly influenced by the cypherpunk movement, and tech/figures like bittorrent, Merkle trees, Chaum, keyservers, certificate transparency

probably also some affordances around "hey you have been using this list for 6 months and it grew 10x and now 8 people you follow are on it. you sure?"

it is 2025 and I have been on team "augment not automate" for almost 20 years

*don't

via @laurenshof.online who never misses

wow, I didn't know how I missed this last week! this is exactly the sort of project I'm excited to see happening with the feed system: strong values/vision/opinion, collab with @graze.social, research background, user configurable View quoted note →

check out @stechlab-labels.bsky.social

pretty interesting protocol-level lexicon data validation scenario! we knew this would happen eventually, and now it has Grapheme count mismatch due to...

damn week two and he's already making up words Week 2: Or, It's actually a bl...

we absolutely intend to treat Blacksky-hosted accounts equally to Bluesky-hosted on our infrastructure, including the relay and appview. I'm sorry that didn't happen here. the meta-failure is that we don't have automated alerting for this scenario.