The Bluesky Observer
@theblueskyobserver.bsky.social
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juni literally wrote dev tools for your shitty ass website she wrote the bluesky event handlers and THIS is how you repay her ????
December 20, 2024 at 9:21 AM
juni literally wrote dev tools for your shitty ass website she wrote the bluesky event handlers and THIS is how you repay her ????
«The fact that Twitter is such a dumpster fire is why I'm not going to join Bluesky until they install those fire exits. I've learned my lesson: you should never, ever, ever join another service unless they've got working fire exits».
— Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/f...
— Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/f...
Pluralistic: Social media needs (dumpster) fire exits (14 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
December 15, 2024 at 4:05 PM
«The fact that Twitter is such a dumpster fire is why I'm not going to join Bluesky until they install those fire exits. I've learned my lesson: you should never, ever, ever join another service unless they've got working fire exits».
— Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/f...
— Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/f...
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INTERESTING. I just posted a Zillow link to a perfectly normal address, and it was immediately insta-blocked by the Bluesky moderation service. It’s almost like someone at Bluesky is automatically blocking any reference to THIS SPECIFIC ADDRESS.
WEIRD! I mean, I was only linking to an offsite page.
WEIRD! I mean, I was only linking to an offsite page.
December 14, 2024 at 10:18 PM
INTERESTING. I just posted a Zillow link to a perfectly normal address, and it was immediately insta-blocked by the Bluesky moderation service. It’s almost like someone at Bluesky is automatically blocking any reference to THIS SPECIFIC ADDRESS.
WEIRD! I mean, I was only linking to an offsite page.
WEIRD! I mean, I was only linking to an offsite page.
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A reminder - BlueSky makes your blocks public.
Everyone can see who you have blocked.
That, in itself, can be a vector for harassment.
Your mutes remain private.
Everyone can see who you have blocked.
That, in itself, can be a vector for harassment.
Your mutes remain private.
When you block an account on Mastodon, you get a detailed description of what blocking can and *can't* achieve. There's even a "see more" explanation.
When you block someone on BSky, there's *no* indication of the limitations. For example, did you know that all your blocks are publicly visible?
When you block someone on BSky, there's *no* indication of the limitations. For example, did you know that all your blocks are publicly visible?
December 15, 2024 at 11:52 AM
A reminder - BlueSky makes your blocks public.
Everyone can see who you have blocked.
That, in itself, can be a vector for harassment.
Your mutes remain private.
Everyone can see who you have blocked.
That, in itself, can be a vector for harassment.
Your mutes remain private.
«Alexios @mantzarlis.com manually went through the top 500 Bluesky users by follower count and found that of the 305 accounts belonging to a named person, at least 74 had been impersonated by at least one other account». www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/11/1...
Bluesky has an impersonator problem
Cryptoscammers tried to trick me using fake profiles of tech personalities. I am not alone.
www.technologyreview.com
December 15, 2024 at 12:27 PM
«Alexios @mantzarlis.com manually went through the top 500 Bluesky users by follower count and found that of the 305 accounts belonging to a named person, at least 74 had been impersonated by at least one other account». www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/11/1...
«I suspect that we will see a shift in expectations about what is possible for Bluesky to be decentralized. Some people will be upset, some people will simply say that having only a few large players be able to provide a Bluesky-like experience is good enough for them» — @dustyweb.bsky.social
December 15, 2024 at 12:24 PM
«I suspect that we will see a shift in expectations about what is possible for Bluesky to be decentralized. Some people will be upset, some people will simply say that having only a few large players be able to provide a Bluesky-like experience is good enough for them» — @dustyweb.bsky.social
«People are gaining the impression that Bluesky is a decentralized system. This could end up being a problem for the decentralized world; people might believe there's an "easy decentralized way to do things" that Bluesky has discovered which isn't actually that at all». — @dustyweb.bsky.social
December 14, 2024 at 6:39 PM
«People are gaining the impression that Bluesky is a decentralized system. This could end up being a problem for the decentralized world; people might believe there's an "easy decentralized way to do things" that Bluesky has discovered which isn't actually that at all». — @dustyweb.bsky.social
«We had witnessed X’s unraveling, as it turned from a genuine community space into an often venomous one. Why should we imagine Bluesky would avoid that fate? Why keep trying to recreate the internet of the past? Why not accept where we are and move on?» www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/m...
Another New Twitter? Good Luck With That.
Users are now flocking to Bluesky. But every social media platform becomes a wasteland in the end.
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2024 at 5:20 PM
«We had witnessed X’s unraveling, as it turned from a genuine community space into an often venomous one. Why should we imagine Bluesky would avoid that fate? Why keep trying to recreate the internet of the past? Why not accept where we are and move on?» www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/m...
«You should report the bots as “unwanted replies” and use the word “bot” when the offender is clearly a bot. Don’t interact with the bots or try to be clever. An account with an established pattern of getting replies from legitimate users will fool automated detection systems better».
A polite disagreement bot ring is flooding Bluesky — reply guy as a (dis)service
On the Bluesky social network, you may notice a lot of drive-by responses from accounts that rarely or never post — they just reply to other accounts. The reply pattern starts with a phrase like “I…
pivot-to-ai.com
December 14, 2024 at 4:56 PM
«You should report the bots as “unwanted replies” and use the word “bot” when the offender is clearly a bot. Don’t interact with the bots or try to be clever. An account with an established pattern of getting replies from legitimate users will fool automated detection systems better».
«Venture capital funding serves as runway. It gives #Bluesky time they can devote to implementing user-friendly features that boost growth. So long as the developers make good use of it, they shouldn’t have to make unpopular changes until the flow of capital begins to slow years from now».
Bluesky and enshittification | destructured
Lots of people are rushing to Bluesky thinking it will turn out differently from Twitter. They’re almost certainly wrong. Lots of people on the fediverse expect the <a href=
destructured.net
December 14, 2024 at 4:22 PM
«Venture capital funding serves as runway. It gives #Bluesky time they can devote to implementing user-friendly features that boost growth. So long as the developers make good use of it, they shouldn’t have to make unpopular changes until the flow of capital begins to slow years from now».
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Comparing ATProto to Google indexing isn't accurate. If it were, simply adding the equivalent of "no-follow" would essentially be enough to make your account private or not susceptible to apps like clearsky, which IMHO are ethically dubious, at best
December 10, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Comparing ATProto to Google indexing isn't accurate. If it were, simply adding the equivalent of "no-follow" would essentially be enough to make your account private or not susceptible to apps like clearsky, which IMHO are ethically dubious, at best
« #Bluesky may eventually experiment with ads in a way that doesn’t compromise the core user experience. That could include running ads in Bluesky’s search results, the CEO @jay.bsky.team later clarified offstage, as an example of a less intrusive advertising method». techcrunch.com/2024/12/05/b...
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber isn't ruling out advertising | TechCrunch
Bluesky has blown up this year thanks to a vibrant community of posters, user customization choices, and a decentralized protocol that doesn't lock users
techcrunch.com
December 6, 2024 at 1:20 PM
« #Bluesky may eventually experiment with ads in a way that doesn’t compromise the core user experience. That could include running ads in Bluesky’s search results, the CEO @jay.bsky.team later clarified offstage, as an example of a less intrusive advertising method». techcrunch.com/2024/12/05/b...
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Bluesky orilla hoy 24,2 millones de usuarios. Su CEO, Jay Graber, dice que el crecimiento aluvional pospone el plan original de cobrar suscripciones y que reforzaron la moderación de contenidos. La sostenibilidad de la plataforma es, como en otras redes, una incógnita
www.wired.com/story/big-in...
www.wired.com/story/big-in...
December 4, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Bluesky orilla hoy 24,2 millones de usuarios. Su CEO, Jay Graber, dice que el crecimiento aluvional pospone el plan original de cobrar suscripciones y que reforzaron la moderación de contenidos. La sostenibilidad de la plataforma es, como en otras redes, una incógnita
www.wired.com/story/big-in...
www.wired.com/story/big-in...
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No se olviden que desde Bluesky pueden interactuar con cuentas de Mastodon siguiendo @ap.brid.gy
December 4, 2024 at 8:37 PM
No se olviden que desde Bluesky pueden interactuar con cuentas de Mastodon siguiendo @ap.brid.gy
«The Protocols not Platforms paper that inspired Bluesky advocates a libertarian approach to free speech, and highlights that a benefit of this approach is that fascists like Alex Jones aren't banned and can still reach their audience». — @thenexusofprivacy.net privacy.thenexus.today/bluesky-atmo...
I for one welcome Bluesky, the ATmosphere, BTS ARMY, millions of Brazilians, Black Twitter, and sex worker Twitter to the fediverses! (UPDATED)
Now also welcoming Black Twitter and sex worker Twitter!
privacy.thenexus.today
December 4, 2024 at 9:45 PM
«The Protocols not Platforms paper that inspired Bluesky advocates a libertarian approach to free speech, and highlights that a benefit of this approach is that fascists like Alex Jones aren't banned and can still reach their audience». — @thenexusofprivacy.net privacy.thenexus.today/bluesky-atmo...
«If Big Tech social platforms are junk food and the Fediverse is a healthy home-cooked meal, then Bluesky is Impossible Burger: even though legumes are sourced for protein, health benefits are somewhat blunted by the high degree of processing involved». blog.elenarossini.com/if-big-tech-...
If Big Tech social platforms are junk food and the Fediverse is a healthy home-cooked meal, then what is Bluesky?
A critique and analysis of Bluesky using food analogies
blog.elenarossini.com
December 4, 2024 at 9:18 PM
«If Big Tech social platforms are junk food and the Fediverse is a healthy home-cooked meal, then Bluesky is Impossible Burger: even though legumes are sourced for protein, health benefits are somewhat blunted by the high degree of processing involved». blog.elenarossini.com/if-big-tech-...
«But what if #Bluesky really does go evil? Or fold, or something else? The infrastructure is hosted in the United States. What if the US goes (more) evil, and requires access to Bluesky's servers?». — @taggart-tech.com taggart-tech.com/20241124-blu...
The Bluesky Questions, Part 1
The big Bluesky questions answered, maybe not the way you'd like
taggart-tech.com
December 3, 2024 at 11:19 PM
«But what if #Bluesky really does go evil? Or fold, or something else? The infrastructure is hosted in the United States. What if the US goes (more) evil, and requires access to Bluesky's servers?». — @taggart-tech.com taggart-tech.com/20241124-blu...
«Bluesky is extremely open. If you’re posting content there, do so with the knowledge that anyone can access it in bulk. This could potentially lead to very cool things, but it’s equally possible people might do things with it that you might not like» — @gavin.anderegg.ca anderegg.ca/2024/11/27/t...
The trouble with openness
Back in the early 2000s, there was this nebulous idea called the semantic web. It never really went anywhere, but I found it exciting at the time.
anderegg.ca
December 3, 2024 at 10:44 PM
«Bluesky is extremely open. If you’re posting content there, do so with the knowledge that anyone can access it in bulk. This could potentially lead to very cool things, but it’s equally possible people might do things with it that you might not like» — @gavin.anderegg.ca anderegg.ca/2024/11/27/t...
A project where the creator shows off Bluesky posts that have been deleted in realtime.
i made a little bluesky data thing, kind of a meditation on the things we choose to keep. bsky-deletions.fly.dev
take care: it’s right off the firehose, so sometimes it’s profane or upsetting.
take care: it’s right off the firehose, so sometimes it’s profane or upsetting.
Deletion
Glimpses of deleting bluesky posts.
bsky-deletions.fly.dev
December 3, 2024 at 10:25 PM
A project where the creator shows off Bluesky posts that have been deleted in realtime.
«Bluesky is radically open and I worry that people might not clock what this means. I would never do anything on Bluesky that I wouldn’t also advertise on the open web — including liking posts. I also fully expect that all Bluesky content is getting scraped for things like training LLMs».
Playing with the Bluesky firehose
Over the weekend I started playing around with Jetstream, a project from the Bluesky team to deliver a JSON based firehose of atproto data. Here’s an overview of the simple project I built with that d...
anderegg.ca
December 3, 2024 at 10:23 PM
«Bluesky is radically open and I worry that people might not clock what this means. I would never do anything on Bluesky that I wouldn’t also advertise on the open web — including liking posts. I also fully expect that all Bluesky content is getting scraped for things like training LLMs».
«Bluesky's vision for the new “social internet” is very much a libertarian worldview that is as old as the commercial web itself. Going back to the early days of eBay, technocrats have been trying to pawn off the labor of running a digital community onto its community members».
Bluesky may have the juice, but we don't have to drink the Kool-Aid
The battle for a better web is not one of good and evil. It's so much more boring than that.
www.fromjason.xyz
December 2, 2024 at 11:57 PM
«Bluesky's vision for the new “social internet” is very much a libertarian worldview that is as old as the commercial web itself. Going back to the early days of eBay, technocrats have been trying to pawn off the labor of running a digital community onto its community members».
« #Bluesky keeps growing, and so do its problems: impersonators, harmful content and AI scraping are up, too». www.theregister.com/2024/12/02/b...
Bluesky facing fakers, harmful content as growth skyrockets
Impersonators, harmful content and AI scraping are up, too
www.theregister.com
December 2, 2024 at 10:46 PM
« #Bluesky keeps growing, and so do its problems: impersonators, harmful content and AI scraping are up, too». www.theregister.com/2024/12/02/b...
« #Bluesky now displays replies by 'hotness'. A lot of users aren't happy with the addition, especially as it's now the default setting. Users protested the act of rewarding "clout farmers" and lamented this similarity to platforms like X». mashable.com/article/blue...
Bluesky now displays replies by 'hotness'
Not everyone is happy about it being the default.
mashable.com
December 1, 2024 at 1:53 PM
« #Bluesky now displays replies by 'hotness'. A lot of users aren't happy with the addition, especially as it's now the default setting. Users protested the act of rewarding "clout farmers" and lamented this similarity to platforms like X». mashable.com/article/blue...
@snarfed.org Is Bridgy Fed paused from Bluesky to the fediverse? I've been trying to bridge my account since Tuesday and it doesn't seem to work. Thanks!
November 29, 2024 at 8:40 PM
@snarfed.org Is Bridgy Fed paused from Bluesky to the fediverse? I've been trying to bridge my account since Tuesday and it doesn't seem to work. Thanks!