I'm Here to Stay Tuned
When I signed up, I was curious:
Will this website actually implement federation? Will it make the same Old Twitter mistakes? Well, I'm here to stay tuned at least.
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:
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.
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.
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
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](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7r6qv3rw/bafkreigspzq3x2na4xrekz2hp44u7jydu5f57nvgoe7h5ojkejh6jqd4ym@jpeg)
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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
After seeing an account spreading #TigrayGenocide denial on this here commenting on this thread, I created a list called #TigrayGenocide deniers & @bsky.app hid it saying it violates their "guidelines". Genociders pass the guidelines but raising awareness about violent event denial violates them?
🔇🔇🔇Announcing new work from DAIR which is very close to my heart, 3 years in the making. When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google. 🧵 english.elpais.com/internationa...
> … 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.
Mississippi’s age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test
Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test | TechCrunch
Bluesky says it would block access to its service in the state of Mississippi, rather than comply with the new age verification law.
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.
Violence is always unacceptable, and threats of violence have no place in public discourse. Our thoughts are with Charlie Kirk and his family.
![fig (aka:[phil])'s avatar](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:hdhoaan3xa3jiuq4fg4mefid/bafkreiamovv77cuv63icyhvminjanb2dz4u6o5bjjzyk72ob44qtbrd224@jpeg)
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
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.
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
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
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):
