bryan newbold / is on Nostr

dweb, cycling, free software, snow, wiki, hardware, big cities, symbolic systems. I love speculating about found objects.
Working at https://blueskyweb.xyz/ on atproto (a federated social media protocol). Formerly built https://scholar.archive.org; scientific instrumentation for observational cosmology; open hardware
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2025-02-11 07:26:17

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@nprofile…ulpn it depends on the system; i'd be curious what Mastodon does, for example.
in the systems I am familiar with specifically for abusive images, things are not shown; black-and-white; and/or blurred by default. sometimes images are inverted or have other transforms to make them a bit "less real".
general systems often hide/blur/warn any content which has been reported or detected as "graphic"; or always. often configurable per session.
there is a whole (small) area of research around this.

2024-11-27 00:35:29

wrote up a reply to @nprofile…zwgs's "How decentralized is Bluesky really" blog post:
https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lbvbtqrg5t2t

2024-11-25 04:48:39

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@nprofile…hyrk this was not intention, and my understanding is that new content has been flowing. we had a serious incident on 2024-11-21 (last thursday) which has impacted some posts getting indexed from that day. we then had a clog catching up bridgyfed because of a misconfiguration.
we very much prioritize interoperability with bridgy fed and have been in communication with snarfed throughout.

2024-11-02 21:08:34

I think what many folks really want from "federation" is a situation where no one party has more than 40% (or 10%, or whatever) of the network.
That is a powerful and special property! Fediverse has it today, and most networks don't.
It is different from adversarial interop though. There are open systems, like email (gmail) and git (github) which have sort of lost this. I still think the interop in those systems is valuable.

2024-10-21 04:57:58

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@npub1ks4…x88p it isn't exactly that, but I did this panel last year with Christine (AP standardization, now Spritely), Rabble (Twitter, then SSB, now nostr), Kegan (Matrix)

2024-10-02 17:40:24

wrote up a proposal for exposing "moderation history" back to individual accounts as part of Ozone, an atproto moderation system.
I think that the Mastodon reporting system already has similar functionality, but not sure about other ActivityPub project. Curious for feedback!
https://github.com/bluesky-social/proposals/tree/main/0005-mod-history
#atproto #bluesky #moderation

2024-09-14 19:19:50

I was at #fediforum only briefly as a #FediForumAttendee, but happy to stay in touch and follow-up with folks!

2024-09-11 00:54:53

really excited about this tutorial we put out last week describing how to build a minimal non-bsky app on atproto: "Statusphere"
https://atproto.com/guides/applications
https://github.com/bluesky-social/statusphere-example-app
there are a lot of questions (and options!) about how cross-app data+interaction will work in atproto, but at a minimum I think the protocol is quite solid for building new apps/modalities, and excited to finally demonstrate it!

2024-09-03 18:01:51

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@npub1wmy…gr4n
Step 5. get more interested in #nostr and #bitcount, resign from Bluesky board

2023-11-07 04:20:08

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@npub1wwu…pn2m @npub1cmg…rzd2 @npub15rq…a3rd most of the moderation primitives in atproto/bluesky hook on the the account's persistent identifier (DID), which does not change across migrations.
it is, of course, possible to create an entirely new account (new DID), and import old posts in to that, but all social graph links are broken in that case (reply threads, follows, etc)