Interesting paper on the impact of blocklists on the Bluesky social graph. Self-recommending. (will read it again after coffee and likely have more to say then)

I'll be at #ICWSM 2025 next week to present our paper about Bluesky Starter Packs. For the occasion, I've created a Starter Pack with all the organizers, speakers, and authors of this year I could find on Bluesky! Link: go.bsky.app/GDkQ3y7 Let me know if I missed anyone!

Our work on Bluesky: doi.org/10.1609/icws... Joint work with @bibo7086.bsky.social @harnen.bsky.social @garethtyson.bsky.social @asonur.bsky.social @ignactro.bsky.social @baronca.bsky.social

Are you interested in @bsky.app research? We gather and make available multiple datasets including posts, social graph snapshots, labellers, feed generators and more. More information is available on our website: bsky.leobalduf.com

Oh hey, our most recent work on @bsky.app was cited by Nature! :o

Did Starter Packs turbocharged @bsky.app growth? Yes, but... We analyse it in the paper quoted in @nature.com article below:🧵 bsky.app/profile/harn...

@bsky.app grew tremendously over the last year. Recently, the platform introduced “starter packs” (SP) to help users bootstrap their social graph. Anybody can create these SPs. They’re lists of accounts (e.g., “people creating anime”) that others can then follow. 🧵1/11

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

Code and paper analysing Bluesky 👉 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

We have an #IMC2024 paper on Bluesky itself: Looking AT the Blue Skies of Bluesky with Leon Balduf (Technical University of Darmstadt) & Saidu Sokoto (City, University of London) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Twitter shows the risk of the centralised/monolithic/vertically integrated organisation approach with a benevolent dictator at the top: including the elusive nature of benevolence. 2 #IMC2024 papers examine Mastodon & Bluesky exploration of the design space of alternatives: [1/4]

The full paper "Guardians of the Galaxy: Content Moderation in the InterPlanetary File System" is available here: usenix.org/conference/u... Written with @ignactro.bsky.social @asonur.bsky.social @bibo7086.bsky.social @leobalduf.bsky.social

To appear soon at ACM IMC 2024! 👇

Cool preprint leveraging access to the "data is public by default" architecture of the #ATprotocol to infer specific moderation practices by the bsky T+S team. They also calculated how little overlap there is between that team's work + the additive work being done by other labelers. Neat stuff!

pretty interesting pre-print about bluesky/atproto! has an analysis of labeler response time (by label value), and digs in to feed service providers. the intro describes the atproto design goals and what is unique pretty well, IMO.

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