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Programming homosexual. I am boring, no need to follow; this is just for following feeds and rambling into the void. Mostly ATproto+Activitypub related, datsci job stuff, occasional fanart/fanfiction reposts, & gay stuff. Big fan of data viz👍gephi my love
I fully get that defending free and open internet is a difficult battle but many of those companies (at least one in the complaint) should *not* be put anywhere near a defense of the open internet.
October 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I fully get that defending free and open internet is a difficult battle but many of those companies (at least one in the complaint) should *not* be put anywhere near a defense of the open internet.
After catching up on the latest drama I am inclined to agree
October 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
After catching up on the latest drama I am inclined to agree
This is a shame but a totally understandable decision.
October 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This is a shame but a totally understandable decision.
By the way, I've always wondered... is "mechanical turk" an offensive term? I know it from the literal definition and the ways its used in tech, but it seems like it could be offensive...? I guess I should do some research on this before using the term in the future...
October 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
By the way, I've always wondered... is "mechanical turk" an offensive term? I know it from the literal definition and the ways its used in tech, but it seems like it could be offensive...? I guess I should do some research on this before using the term in the future...
bsky.app/profile/raha... this exactly. It's not an exaggeration...if anything it's an understatement. There is unfortunately limited reporting on this because these aren't stats that get reported...(an entire issue in itself) but if you're adjacent to the "industry" you *know* ....
And I just want to reiterate this ( from a thread deep in replies). I started doing this work before any of these tools existed. The number of my contemporaries in the field who have died by suicide is NOT A SMALL NUMBER. The work is incredibly traumatizing.
As someone who was doing that human review of images before even PhotoDNA existed, I can testify that the amount of human suffering automated image classification prevents is MASSIVE. Like, I am the best case scenario of the human cost of that work and I still have lifelong consequences from it.
October 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
bsky.app/profile/raha... this exactly. It's not an exaggeration...if anything it's an understatement. There is unfortunately limited reporting on this because these aren't stats that get reported...(an entire issue in itself) but if you're adjacent to the "industry" you *know* ....
I worked such "mechanical turk" jobs in my past; people take moderation for granted now. It is trauma-inducing. Machine learning and so-called "AI" for moderation is genuinely a good thing unless you like making poor people traumatized & suicidal.
October 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I worked such "mechanical turk" jobs in my past; people take moderation for granted now. It is trauma-inducing. Machine learning and so-called "AI" for moderation is genuinely a good thing unless you like making poor people traumatized & suicidal.
That is exactly what it means in this context. People have just had their minds fried by the internet ragemachine and no longer know how to read.....😩
October 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
That is exactly what it means in this context. People have just had their minds fried by the internet ragemachine and no longer know how to read.....😩
Thank you for the clarification! Yeah I was struggling to whittle my reply down to 300 characters and realized afterwards that omitting the appview out of the appview+relay explanation messed up the answer a bit lol
October 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Thank you for the clarification! Yeah I was struggling to whittle my reply down to 300 characters and realized afterwards that omitting the appview out of the appview+relay explanation messed up the answer a bit lol
Oh yes, that's a much better way of putting it for sure
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Oh yes, that's a much better way of putting it for sure
(Apologies for the constant replies, I couldn't remember the bird name of the toolset earlier) Projects under development like @roost.tools' Osprey should help /significantly/ with independent selfhosted platform costs, as security/moderation is usually a major hurdle:
bsky.app/profile/hail...
bsky.app/profile/hail...
there's some more to do here in the repo to get it where i want, but will probably write a leaflet soon on making moderation work for people that are not Bluesky PBC. hoping that this will be a good step in that direction.
GitHub - bluesky-social/osprey-atproto: A set of packages, UDFs, and rules to use Osprey with ATProto
A set of packages, UDFs, and rules to use Osprey with ATProto - bluesky-social/osprey-atproto
github.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
(Apologies for the constant replies, I couldn't remember the bird name of the toolset earlier) Projects under development like @roost.tools' Osprey should help /significantly/ with independent selfhosted platform costs, as security/moderation is usually a major hurdle:
bsky.app/profile/hail...
bsky.app/profile/hail...