Saidu Sokoto
@bibo7086.bsky.social
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standards folks!
if you are in to this sort of thing, we now have an IETF mailing list to discuss AT protocol bits.
mailman3.ietf.org/mailman3/lis...
if you want to jump in, I recommend setting up an overall IETF datatracker account and reviewing IETF IP policies ("note well") first
if you are in to this sort of thing, we now have an IETF mailing list to discuss AT protocol bits.
mailman3.ietf.org/mailman3/lis...
if you want to jump in, I recommend setting up an overall IETF datatracker account and reviewing IETF IP policies ("note well") first
October 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
standards folks!
if you are in to this sort of thing, we now have an IETF mailing list to discuss AT protocol bits.
mailman3.ietf.org/mailman3/lis...
if you want to jump in, I recommend setting up an overall IETF datatracker account and reviewing IETF IP policies ("note well") first
if you are in to this sort of thing, we now have an IETF mailing list to discuss AT protocol bits.
mailman3.ietf.org/mailman3/lis...
if you want to jump in, I recommend setting up an overall IETF datatracker account and reviewing IETF IP policies ("note well") first
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At IETF-123 in Madrid, the following IRTF groups are meeting this afternoon:
- Decentralization of the Internet: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/...
- Human Rights Protocol Considerations: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/...
See www.ietf.org/meeting/123/ for online participation options.
- Decentralization of the Internet: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/...
- Human Rights Protocol Considerations: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/...
See www.ietf.org/meeting/123/ for online participation options.
datatracker.ietf.org
July 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM
At IETF-123 in Madrid, the following IRTF groups are meeting this afternoon:
- Decentralization of the Internet: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/...
- Human Rights Protocol Considerations: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/...
See www.ietf.org/meeting/123/ for online participation options.
- Decentralization of the Internet: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/...
- Human Rights Protocol Considerations: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/...
See www.ietf.org/meeting/123/ for online participation options.
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I finally managed to go through all the follows and messages about the #ICWSM starter pack.
The first SP is full (wow!), I've added more people I've missed the first time around, and the amazing people I've met at the conference to a second one:
go.bsky.app/2EFgnJV
Let me know who I missed, again!
The first SP is full (wow!), I've added more people I've missed the first time around, and the amazing people I've met at the conference to a second one:
go.bsky.app/2EFgnJV
Let me know who I missed, again!
June 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I finally managed to go through all the follows and messages about the #ICWSM starter pack.
The first SP is full (wow!), I've added more people I've missed the first time around, and the amazing people I've met at the conference to a second one:
go.bsky.app/2EFgnJV
Let me know who I missed, again!
The first SP is full (wow!), I've added more people I've missed the first time around, and the amazing people I've met at the conference to a second one:
go.bsky.app/2EFgnJV
Let me know who I missed, again!
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At #ICWSM? Here's a starter pack for you :)
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Check also "Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs" ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Check also "Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs" ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
June 26, 2025 at 9:41 AM
At #ICWSM? Here's a starter pack for you :)
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Check also "Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs" ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Check also "Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs" ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
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That's our paper, nice :) @asonur.bsky.social @harnen.bsky.social @bibo7086.bsky.social @garethtyson.bsky.social @ignactro.bsky.social @baronca.bsky.social
Bluesky Report - this week's news:
- custom feed builder @graze.social raises 1M USD
- Deer Social is a fork of the official Bluesky app, giving people the option to use the app with various features turned off
- a paper on the large impact of Starter Packs
fediversereport.com/bluesky-repo...
- custom feed builder @graze.social raises 1M USD
- Deer Social is a fork of the official Bluesky app, giving people the option to use the app with various features turned off
- a paper on the large impact of Starter Packs
fediversereport.com/bluesky-repo...
Bluesky Report – #112
Custom feed builder Graze raises 1M USD, and Deer is a new fork of the main Bluesky app.
fediversereport.com
April 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
That's our paper, nice :) @asonur.bsky.social @harnen.bsky.social @bibo7086.bsky.social @garethtyson.bsky.social @ignactro.bsky.social @baronca.bsky.social
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I'll be at #ICWSM 2025 next week to present our paper about Bluesky Starter Packs.
For the occasion, I've created a Starter Pack with all the organizers, speakers, and authors of this year I could find on Bluesky!
Link: go.bsky.app/GDkQ3y7
Let me know if I missed anyone!
For the occasion, I've created a Starter Pack with all the organizers, speakers, and authors of this year I could find on Bluesky!
Link: go.bsky.app/GDkQ3y7
Let me know if I missed anyone!
June 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I'll be at #ICWSM 2025 next week to present our paper about Bluesky Starter Packs.
For the occasion, I've created a Starter Pack with all the organizers, speakers, and authors of this year I could find on Bluesky!
Link: go.bsky.app/GDkQ3y7
Let me know if I missed anyone!
For the occasion, I've created a Starter Pack with all the organizers, speakers, and authors of this year I could find on Bluesky!
Link: go.bsky.app/GDkQ3y7
Let me know if I missed anyone!
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Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
go.nature.com
January 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
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It's underway! The week of #IETF122 Bangkok hosted by Juniper Networks has kicked off with the #IETFHackathon. Select sessions are streamed live and all sessions are available on demand after the meeting. Find links and more information at: www.ietf.org/live/
March 16, 2025 at 3:36 AM
It's underway! The week of #IETF122 Bangkok hosted by Juniper Networks has kicked off with the #IETFHackathon. Select sessions are streamed live and all sessions are available on demand after the meeting. Find links and more information at: www.ietf.org/live/
We’re studying Bluesky’s ad ecosystem—how it works, its impact, and what it means for the future of decentralized social media. Check out our research here: bsky-adtest.leobalduf.com and let us know what you think!
Bluesky Research
bsky-adtest.leobalduf.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
We’re studying Bluesky’s ad ecosystem—how it works, its impact, and what it means for the future of decentralized social media. Check out our research here: bsky-adtest.leobalduf.com and let us know what you think!
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Are you interested in @bsky.app research? We gather and make available multiple datasets including posts, social graph snapshots, labellers, feed generators and more. More information is available on our website: bsky.leobalduf.com
Bluesky Research
bsky.leobalduf.com
February 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Are you interested in @bsky.app research? We gather and make available multiple datasets including posts, social graph snapshots, labellers, feed generators and more. More information is available on our website: bsky.leobalduf.com
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Bluesky has just surpassed 30M users. Starter packs have been a key feature - how have they worked out so far?
Check out our recent preprint for insights: arxiv.org/abs/2501.11605
Check out our recent preprint for insights: arxiv.org/abs/2501.11605
January 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Bluesky has just surpassed 30M users. Starter packs have been a key feature - how have they worked out so far?
Check out our recent preprint for insights: arxiv.org/abs/2501.11605
Check out our recent preprint for insights: arxiv.org/abs/2501.11605
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An international research team with leading participation from TU Darmstadt has now presented the first far-reaching data analysis on Bluesky: Openness, transparency, participation & a more even distribution of power are the biggest advantages of the decentralised platform, according to the study.
X-Ersatz mit Benefits
www.tu-darmstadt.de
January 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
An international research team with leading participation from TU Darmstadt has now presented the first far-reaching data analysis on Bluesky: Openness, transparency, participation & a more even distribution of power are the biggest advantages of the decentralised platform, according to the study.
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Did Starter Packs turbocharged @bsky.app growth? Yes, but... We analyse it in the paper quoted in @nature.com article below:🧵 bsky.app/profile/harn...
January 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Did Starter Packs turbocharged @bsky.app growth? Yes, but... We analyse it in the paper quoted in @nature.com article below:🧵 bsky.app/profile/harn...
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Oh hey, our most recent work on @bsky.app was cited by Nature! :o
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
go.nature.com
January 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Oh hey, our most recent work on @bsky.app was cited by Nature! :o
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@bsky.app grew tremendously over the last year. Recently, the platform introduced “starter packs” (SP) to help users bootstrap their social graph. Anybody can create these SPs. They’re lists of accounts (e.g., “people creating anime”) that others can then follow.
🧵1/11
🧵1/11
January 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
@bsky.app grew tremendously over the last year. Recently, the platform introduced “starter packs” (SP) to help users bootstrap their social graph. Anybody can create these SPs. They’re lists of accounts (e.g., “people creating anime”) that others can then follow.
🧵1/11
🧵1/11
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If you're curious about the growth of @bsky.app, a few of us published a paper using April'24 data. Since, all stats have gone through the roof... arxiv.org/pdf/2408.12449
January 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
If you're curious about the growth of @bsky.app, a few of us published a paper using April'24 data. Since, all stats have gone through the roof... arxiv.org/pdf/2408.12449
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More than 5xusers and well beyond 300K starter packs since April 2024. How did Bluesky looked before the stampede out of X?👇 [1/n]
If you're curious about the growth of @bsky.app, a few of us published a paper using April'24 data. Since, all stats have gone through the roof... arxiv.org/pdf/2408.12449
January 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
More than 5xusers and well beyond 300K starter packs since April 2024. How did Bluesky looked before the stampede out of X?👇 [1/n]
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If you're doing Mastodon research, you might wanna check @harisbinzia.bsky.social useful tool for Fediverse data collection: github.com/harisbinzia/...
GitHub - harisbinzia/mastodoner: Mastodoner is a command line tool (and Python library) for archiving Mastodon, a decentralized micro-blogging social network.
Mastodoner is a command line tool (and Python library) for archiving Mastodon, a decentralized micro-blogging social network. - harisbinzia/mastodoner
github.com
December 30, 2024 at 1:01 PM
If you're doing Mastodon research, you might wanna check @harisbinzia.bsky.social useful tool for Fediverse data collection: github.com/harisbinzia/...
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I'm running a mirror of plc.directory here: plc-mirror.bsky.leobalduf.com. No ratelimits (for now), no SLA, and only supports DID lookups (no exports, audit logs, etc).
This uses github.com/bsky-watch/p..., which works by collecting and replaying PLC operations. 33 GB Postgres database, pretty nice.
This uses github.com/bsky-watch/p..., which works by collecting and replaying PLC operations. 33 GB Postgres database, pretty nice.
November 27, 2024 at 11:48 AM
I'm running a mirror of plc.directory here: plc-mirror.bsky.leobalduf.com. No ratelimits (for now), no SLA, and only supports DID lookups (no exports, audit logs, etc).
This uses github.com/bsky-watch/p..., which works by collecting and replaying PLC operations. 33 GB Postgres database, pretty nice.
This uses github.com/bsky-watch/p..., which works by collecting and replaying PLC operations. 33 GB Postgres database, pretty nice.
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Thank you for bearing with me during the recent SkyFeed outages, I'm trying my best to keep them online <3
With the recent increase in users, I also had to add some new servers. If you would like to support SkyFeed and cover infrastructure expenses, you can donate here: github.com/sponsors/red...
With the recent increase in users, I also had to add some new servers. If you would like to support SkyFeed and cover infrastructure expenses, you can donate here: github.com/sponsors/red...
November 15, 2024 at 1:50 AM
Thank you for bearing with me during the recent SkyFeed outages, I'm trying my best to keep them online <3
With the recent increase in users, I also had to add some new servers. If you would like to support SkyFeed and cover infrastructure expenses, you can donate here: github.com/sponsors/red...
With the recent increase in users, I also had to add some new servers. If you would like to support SkyFeed and cover infrastructure expenses, you can donate here: github.com/sponsors/red...
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Code and paper analysing Bluesky 👉 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
November 14, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Code and paper analysing Bluesky 👉 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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We have an #IMC2024 paper on Bluesky itself: Looking AT the Blue Skies of Bluesky with Leon Balduf (Technical University of Darmstadt) & Saidu Sokoto (City, University of London) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Looking AT the Blue Skies of Bluesky | Proceedings of the 2024 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference
dl.acm.org
November 4, 2024 at 3:40 PM
We have an #IMC2024 paper on Bluesky itself: Looking AT the Blue Skies of Bluesky with Leon Balduf (Technical University of Darmstadt) & Saidu Sokoto (City, University of London) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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📣 #IMC2024 is on! Kicking off with Alan Mislove (Northeastern University) keynote: What I Learned at the White House, or, the Importance of Measurement Researchers Engaging with Policy 👉 conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2024/pro...
ACM IMC 2024 - Papers Schedule
conferences.sigcomm.org
November 4, 2024 at 8:05 AM
📣 #IMC2024 is on! Kicking off with Alan Mislove (Northeastern University) keynote: What I Learned at the White House, or, the Importance of Measurement Researchers Engaging with Policy 👉 conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2024/pro...
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@ipfs.tech is the largest decentralized file storage. In our recent Usenix Security paper, we answer questions about content uploaded by users:
1) What kinds of “problematic” content is uploaded to @ipfs.tech?
2) How is this content moderated?
3) How effective moderation is?
🧵 1/7
1) What kinds of “problematic” content is uploaded to @ipfs.tech?
2) How is this content moderated?
3) How effective moderation is?
🧵 1/7
October 18, 2024 at 3:49 PM
@ipfs.tech is the largest decentralized file storage. In our recent Usenix Security paper, we answer questions about content uploaded by users:
1) What kinds of “problematic” content is uploaded to @ipfs.tech?
2) How is this content moderated?
3) How effective moderation is?
🧵 1/7
1) What kinds of “problematic” content is uploaded to @ipfs.tech?
2) How is this content moderated?
3) How effective moderation is?
🧵 1/7
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small updates to our pre-print!
Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable Decentralized Social Media
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03239
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03239
October 18, 2024 at 6:06 PM
small updates to our pre-print!