Harlan
harlan.bsky.social
Harlan
@harlan.bsky.social
Builder of decentralized things // TrustGraph.is // CoreNexus.is // HoloFractal.is // Having fun with Holochain, Rust, Ruby, Svelte, edge compute
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March 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This makes me unreasonably happy, so much love and appreciation for you both.
November 29, 2024 at 11:25 PM
I’m currently implementing this kind of behavior using TrustGraph in 🐈MewsFeed, a cat-themed Holochain microblog app.
GitHub - GeekGene/MewsFeed: A P2P LOLcat themed microblogging dapp -- Twitter-clone on Holochain. I can haz tweetburger?
A P2P LOLcat themed microblogging dapp -- Twitter-clone on Holochain. I can haz tweetburger? - GitHub - GeekGene/MewsFeed: A P2P LOLcat themed microblogging dapp -- Twitter-clone on Holochain....
github.com
May 8, 2023 at 8:56 AM
… which provides raw information that can inform the server assembling my feed — that is to say, the raw data about what I am interested in is separate from the algorithm that is assembling my feed — and like other atproto layers, there can be healthy competition among the feed creation algorithms.
May 8, 2023 at 8:52 AM
For example, when I follow Why, or later, when I visit his profile, I could choose to follow his posts more/less enthusiastically in certain topic areas, eg:

- IPLD 99%
- hair -100%
- all other topics 90%
May 8, 2023 at 8:49 AM
I realized I may have dove into my own rabbit hole without giving appropriate context. So to be very concrete about how protocols like these are helpful for systems like bsky, they could express:

- likes
- blocks
- vouches
- follows
- any of the above *in a specific topic area*
May 8, 2023 at 8:40 AM
@pfrazee.com perhaps the “semantic” field could both:

1) link to the “labels” you’re creating for moderation

2) if you want a fixed vocabulary, rather than freeform, you could use something like:

- social.bsky.vocab.vouch
- social.bsky.vocab.follow
- social.bsky.vocab.block
May 8, 2023 at 4:00 AM
Tagging @why.bsky.team and @pfrazee.com — as we’ve batted around some of this stuff in various places.
May 8, 2023 at 3:53 AM
I’m also a big fan of @golda.bsky.social’s protocol mentioned in this thread, which we collaborated in the design of — TrustGraph is currently focused on its #holochain implementation, but ultimately would like to support this as well as IETF Reputons.
May 8, 2023 at 3:39 AM
3/3 Finally, what if by uniting our networks in this way we could snowball into an effectively larger, deeper, more powerful _network effect_ than today's legacy social networks and chat apps?
May 8, 2023 at 3:35 AM
2/3 What if this self-sovereign, user owned and controlled, privately sharable trust network could become the backbone to unite our many disparate decentralized web apps and platforms?
May 8, 2023 at 3:35 AM
I wrote a few tweets on this in 2019:

1/3 What if all our decentralized apps and platforms could share trust/ratings/attestation information, in the form of portable cryptographically signed claims?
May 8, 2023 at 3:34 AM
I would love to see Bluesky adopt any of these, or a variation thereof. This would not only be powerful within the Bsky ecosystem, but also kick start a powerful interop opportunity with other communities/ social networks to share self-sovereign-identity based trust networks in an interoperable way!
May 8, 2023 at 3:31 AM
Trying the image attachment again, as I’m not seeing it in my last post…

cc @support-team.bsky.social
May 8, 2023 at 3:24 AM
- source: the rating entity
- target: entity being rated
- semantic: tag, topic of rating, etc
- scalar: numeric “amount”
May 8, 2023 at 3:21 AM
Hm, several projects — IETF Reputons, TrustGraph, TrustNet have all (independently AFAICT) arrived at roughly the same conclusion for minimal atomic sharing of reputation/ratings info:
May 8, 2023 at 3:20 AM
Oh yeah def pull it in and would love to chat about interop. TrustGraph is designed to be a reputation interchange!
TrustGraph | Decentralized Reputation for Self-Sovereign Identity Ecosystems
Trustgraph.net
May 6, 2023 at 8:26 PM
Hi @golda! Great to see your progress on trust graphs!

What I was really looking for was lib code to build bsky adaptors upon — and in that case the answer is the official libs:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@atproto/api
May 6, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Update: if you’re looking for a TS lib to build your app on, you probably want the (MIT licensed) official packages: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@atproto/api
May 6, 2023 at 7:56 PM
Correct: zero blockchain, hella merkle
April 27, 2023 at 8:50 PM
Yeah and their models will get increasingly awesome as 1) they release larger ones and 2) the open source community works its magic. Feels like the answer to the Q you asked on T years ago to which I said GPTNeo and you said Nah. 😂

I’m down to help with this project, feel free to ping when ready.
April 23, 2023 at 7:28 PM
I generated 40 T-shirt ideas for my yoga studio using GPT4, and sent the best ones to the owner.

Here’s my fav 😂

"Blue Mango Yoga: I came, I saw, I downward dogged"
April 11, 2023 at 7:59 PM