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Maintained by @lendot.bsky.social
Maintained by @lendot.bsky.social
For anyone who cares, at the moment I can block all posts from specific bsky accounts, and/or all posts linking to specific sites. Blocked posts get discarded very early in the process and don't get put into the database or receive any further processing.
April 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
For anyone who cares, at the moment I can block all posts from specific bsky accounts, and/or all posts linking to specific sites. Blocked posts get discarded very early in the process and don't get put into the database or receive any further processing.
Ok, so that came out pretty janky for a first pass, but I'm thinking of posting info like this here in some form once a week or so for anyone who might be interested.
April 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Ok, so that came out pretty janky for a first pass, but I'm thinking of posting info like this here in some form once a week or so for anyone who might be interested.
So, in short, I'm increasingly convinced that the many benefits of excluding replies from the feeds outweigh the potential missed information, and I tentatively plan to implement that behavior this weekend unless there are any objections.
April 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
So, in short, I'm increasingly convinced that the many benefits of excluding replies from the feeds outweigh the potential missed information, and I tentatively plan to implement that behavior this weekend unless there are any objections.
Which is to say, *at least* 2/3 of all replies are links that are already very well represented elsewhere on this site as root (non-reply) posts, and many are already being inhibited anyway for URL cooldown purposes. Even with cooldown, 46% of the uninhibited replies still contain mobilize links.
April 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Which is to say, *at least* 2/3 of all replies are links that are already very well represented elsewhere on this site as root (non-reply) posts, and many are already being inhibited anyway for URL cooldown purposes. Even with cooldown, 46% of the uninhibited replies still contain mobilize links.
Things like mobilize are already getting plenty of attention, which is freakin' awesome, but that means I've been shifting my focus to trying to surface more things flying under the radar and/or comprising underrepresented modalities of action. But that puts me in slightly murkier territory.
April 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Things like mobilize are already getting plenty of attention, which is freakin' awesome, but that means I've been shifting my focus to trying to surface more things flying under the radar and/or comprising underrepresented modalities of action. But that puts me in slightly murkier territory.
That's pretty much where my thinking is now. I'm still having a bit of an existential struggle over the fact that certain juggernaut resources I wished had existed when I envisioned this tool suddenly became extremely prevalent while i was developing it.
April 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
That's pretty much where my thinking is now. I'm still having a bit of an existential struggle over the fact that certain juggernaut resources I wished had existed when I envisioned this tool suddenly became extremely prevalent while i was developing it.
What I don't have offhand is an objective sense of how prevalent that scenario is; I only know I've seen that happen more than just once or twice.
April 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
What I don't have offhand is an objective sense of how prevalent that scenario is; I only know I've seen that happen more than just once or twice.
The content I'm concerned about losing is someone will make a post saying "Anyone know of any groups doing good work on [issue]?" and someone replies with a really good link. In option 2, absolutely nothing from that thread will appear in the feed, and for more niche stuff, that may be all there is.
April 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The content I'm concerned about losing is someone will make a post saying "Anyone know of any groups doing good work on [issue]?" and someone replies with a really good link. In option 2, absolutely nothing from that thread will appear in the feed, and for more niche stuff, that may be all there is.
Just to make sure we're on the same page, the feed code currently doesn't understand or care if a post is a regular post or a reply. It'll happily ignore a post and its first 4 replies and then for the fifth one say "this post should be in the feed." It's bluesky that then fills in upstream posts.
April 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Just to make sure we're on the same page, the feed code currently doesn't understand or care if a post is a regular post or a reply. It'll happily ignore a post and its first 4 replies and then for the fifth one say "this post should be in the feed." It's bluesky that then fills in upstream posts.
Does anyone have any strong opinions on this, or any other suggestions? At the moment I'm most drawn to option 2 for a number of reasons, but I'm open to other arguments.
9/9.
9/9.
April 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Does anyone have any strong opinions on this, or any other suggestions? At the moment I'm most drawn to option 2 for a number of reasons, but I'm open to other arguments.
9/9.
9/9.