I'm Here to Stay Tuned

When I signed up, I was curious:

picklefactory

2y

Will this website actually implement federation? Will it make the same Old Twitter mistakes? Well, I'm here to stay tuned at least.

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Bluesky App (I am calling it this to be specific about which segment of the architecture I mean) didn't have bookmarks at this time; I figured later on it might be a good place to keep posts about the topic, like this one:

Ahmet Alphan Sabancı

11mo

I know @safety.bsky.app team is not a big one but it doesn’t look good when you have a huge wave of new users from Turkey because of government enforced censorship on X/Twitter and then you silently add a country specific moderation service and start blocking users.

When you check Moderation settings from Turkey, you see an additional moderation service specific to Turkey and has a note saying “Required in your region”.

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In the course of answering the first question I learned about leaflet.pub, and just now it struck me this might be a more navigable/legible place to keep these posts, in addition to the original thread, because threading is still somewhat gnarly on Bluesky App. Here are the remaining ones.

This should be viewed as a collection of shiny, low-hanging fruit specific to my interests rather than an attempt at comprehensive coverage of the topic.

Altuğ Öztürk

11mo

After X’s repressive actions, hundreds of thousands in Turkey joined Bluesky, seeking a freer space. Reports of government censorship here are deeply troubling. Don’t squander this trust. This is a critical moment for principled leadership—not silent compromise. @jay.bsky.team

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Rudy wants revolution.

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As opposed to endlessly debating decentralization, we secured funding from @skyseed.fund, brought Utkarsh on board, and took major steps toward Blacksky’s complete independence from Bluesky PBC—while staying interoperable with the rest of the network.

May 02 22:42:50 rsky-firehose-droplet systemd[1]: Started Blacksky Firehose Service.
May 02 22:42:50 rsky-firehose-droplet rsky-firehose[1953579]: Connected to wss://atproto.africa
May 02 22:42:52 rsky-firehose-droplet rsky-firehose (1953579]: eLOG: Saw non-commit event: Account(>
May 02 22:42:53 rsky-firehose-droplet rsky-firehose[1953579]: @LOG:
Saw non-commit event: Account

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Storacha Network

9mo

The internet was meant to be free - your identity shouldn’t be locked behind a login screen. Introducing bsky.storage 🐔🤝🦋 Now you can back up your Bluesky data hourly + recover your account if Bluesky ever goes dark. Simple, free, & fully in your control. Learn more: medium.com/@storacha/in...

Introducing bsky.storage: Own Your Social Identity

Take back control of your online identity. Our new tool, bsky.storage, backs up your Bluesky account hourly — free, secure &…

https://medium.com/@storacha/introducing-bsky-storage-own-your-social-identity-aa386944e7c7

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Rudy wants revolution.

9mo

The 2nd phase of Blacksky's @skyseed.fund grant has been completed 🥳 - We built the first "Mod Relay" 📡 - Every moderation action ever made from over 600 moderation services ( @moderation.bsky.app, @blacksky.app , etc.) is available at wss://atproto.africa/xrpc/com.atproto.label.subscribeLabels

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Working with the UK Government to Protect Children Online - Bluesky

Part of Bluesky’s mission to create a more open and decentralized social web is helping users feel safe and in control of their experience. We always try to balance safety with privacy, and free expression with civility.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/07-10-2025-age-assurance

picklefactory

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Rudy wants revolution.

7mo

> … a community called Blacksky recently spun up its own PDS, so things are progressing on that front. > Rudy … confirmed to TechCrunch that [Blacksky] doesn’t plan on blocking any users based on where they’re located, anywhere in the world.

That said, Bluesky is still the largest entity to operate a PDS, given that the network is still fairly new. That means the majority of Bluesky's users are relying on its own infrastructure. However, a community called Blacksky recently spun up its own PDS, so things are progressing on that front. And there are others, as well as independently run relays and appviews, which are portions of Bluesky infrastructure.

Working around the Mississippi block
Without using a VPN, some users in the state report they've been able to access Bluesky through third-party clients like Graysky., Skeets, Klearsky, TOKIMEK,
Flashes, or forked versions of the Bluesky app, like Deer.social or Zeppelin.
Rudy Fraser, Blacksky founder, confirmed to TechCrunch that his community doesn't plan on blocking any users based on where they're located, anywhere in the world.

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Rudy wants revolution.

6mo

reminder that bsky.team only has jurisdiction over what happens on their servers. If you self-host or are hosted by blacksky.app they cannot remove your posts. they can hide it on bsky.app but it will still be up elsewhere. signups and migrations are open.

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fig (aka:[phil])

6mo

if it felt like a lot was happening on the network yesterday: yes microcosm indie firehoses didn't blink ✅ EU relay ✅ EU jetstream ✅ CA relay ✅ CA jetstream ✅ us-east jetstream ✅ spacedust

"commits received" line chart over seven days with a normal daily peak/trough cycle until yesterday, when halfway through the peak it ~doubles very quickly

the trough after is only slightly higher than the usual trough, but the rise today is steeper and already higher than usual

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picklefactory

6mo

Update on Protocol Moderation - Paul's Leaflets

Where account takedowns happen is important

https://pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3lz4sgu7iec2k

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Creating an Independent Public Ledger of Credentials (PLC) Directory Organization | Bluesky

The Bluesky Social app is built on an open network protocol that refers to each user by a unique Decentralized Identifier, or DID (a W3C standard). The most popular supported DID method was developed in-house by Bluesky Social, and is called "Public Ledger of Credentials", or PLC. The PLC identity system currently relies on a global directory service to distribute identity updates, and that directory service has been operated by Bluesky as well.

https://docs.bsky.app/blog/plc-directory-org

Jay 🦋

5mo

Amazing breakfast this morning. I love waffles

Waffle with berries & powdered sugar on floral plate

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Jay 🦋

5mo

Are you paying us? Where?

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mcc

5mo

The function of the waffles joke is an in-group signifier. Singal, Graber, and Oppiliappan are showing in-group solidarity; they're all in on a joke. The joke is they have institutional power, and you don't, and they feel contempt for you, that you still want to have opinions about how power's used.

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Rudy wants revolution.

5mo

TL; DR In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it. After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up. After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools fin/11

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Bailey Townsend 🦀

5mo

It's here! PDS MOOver now supports automated backups and restores that anyone can use! This also includes adversarial account migrations! pdsmoover.com

PDS MOOver: The Next Generation

PDS MOOver now supports automated backups and account recovery

https://retrobailey.leaflet.pub/3m3ntnjv3hc2x

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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦

3mo

It's crazy that you can connect to an independent PDS's firehose (Blacksky) and see this level of traffic 🙂 (this is less than a minute):

in "skyfall": ./example/print_all_posts.rb blacksky.app
Connected to blacksky.app
Streaming messages from different people:
22:25:50: The Jets' special teams have been the bright spot this season.
22:26:07: The real MVP!!!!
22:26:13: Hallelujah!
22:26:13: Fuck it. We ball.
22:26:16: Those some good thighs
22:26:18: Higgins shouldn't be playing right now. 😩
22:26:18: gonna have some awesome @comixaction.com news shortly. stand by!
22:26:21: My family and I survived the bombs, but rebuilding is the hardest part. We need your help to start again 🕊️💔
22:26:22: Definitely gotta post a pic, i think that's the answer. Include her interests. And sign.
22:26:33: Megan Thee Stallion
Method Man
Rakim
DJ Quik
ASAP Rocky
22:26:33: HM for my Black GenX girls: MC Brains 😂
22:26:36: Same, bout to grab a bite to eat
22:26:37: i think every song should have a travis barker feature
22:26:38: Do any of my mutuals want cookies for Longest Night? 👀 i bake a pretty damn good one
22:26:41: I never thought I’d see the day smh

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fig (aka:[phil])

2mo

alright debug.hose.cam now also checks each of Bluesky's regional moderation services, and hints at the practical severity of different labels.

Labels: 2025-04-14 [!hide] @moderation-tr.bsky.app

hover text: Almost always used with !takedown, makes your content inaccessible on the Bluesky app.

Labels: 2025-02-16 [!takedown] @moderation.bsky.app

hover text: Moderation action from Bluesky moderation team. Makes your content inaccessible on the Bluesky app.

Labels: 2025-03-08 [intolerant] @moderation.bsky.app

Labels: 2025-06-18 [spam] @moderation.bsky.app

Skeets App 📱

2mo

Here's one for the books: @skeetsapp.com now officially supports Blacksky's AppView @rude1.blacksky.team. So if you're looking for a native, accessible iOS / iPadOS / MacOS app to work with Blacksky - we got you covered.

Thumbnail from embedded video. Go to Bluesky to see the full post.

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See the full post on Bluesky!

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A Model for addressing privacy on ATproto

When I first got involved with Northsky social, we knew we would have to eventually address the elephant in the room. How do we proactively protect a community from outside influences without relying purely on moderation? And more importantly, how do we keep bad actors from simply pulling their data straight from a relay?

https://chipnick.com/a-model-for-addressing-privacy-on-atproto/

Rudy wants revolution.

2mo

Bluesky runs an appview. Blacksky runs an appview. A complete appview is a several terabytes sized database of the >18 billion follows, likes and posts of all bsky users, ever and forever. To run a different appview is to make a fork in bsky’s timeline. One has new posts from Łink. One doesn’t.

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Composable Trust, Part 1: Communities Without Credible Exit - Eclectic Corvine Muses

We guarantee that users aren’t subject to platforms. Yet communities are still subject to their stewards. Can we fix this?

https://baldemoto.leaflet.pub/3mg4axqagds24

Rudy wants revolution.

2w

We run a full AppView + PDS + Relay for ~$1,772/mo. PDS is cheap (~$0.03/user/mo, 4 vCPUs, 32GB RAM). AppView is the expensive part; indexes the entire network (16TB DB), not just your users. Storage scales linearly with network activity. PDS scales linearly with your account count.

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Blacksky Algorithms

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Blacksky is excited to announce Acorn, a platform for growing and managing communities on decentralized infrastructure. blackskyweb.xyz/introducing-...

Introducing Acorn: Community Infrastructure That Grows With You

Featured image: Emergence by Paul Lewin

https://blackskyweb.xyz/introducing-acorn-community-infrastructure-that-grows-with-you/

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Bluesky... without Bluesky - Mia's Blog

What if we could use Bluesky without touching any Bluesky servers? What about if we avoided touching their code, entirely?

https://mia.leaflet.pub/3mhw3hzwtn224