'our digital public sphere - the actual battlefield of democratic resilience' +1 Also, rough consensus on a common (updated) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaga... seems useful.

Let me put it this way: the bluesky PBC moderation team has as much power as 1,361 moderation teams on the fediverse, combined. (How many fedi instances have to block an account to block it from the fraction of the network bsky controls) That's a whole lot of power in a very small number of hands.

Wow. Presentation of the day imho, in an already packed day full of great talks. @mathewlowry.bsky.social talking about how managing orgs on the network is really bloody hard, and actually maybe not, thanks to @atconnect.eu.

Which part in this 3-piece do we need to get better funded most critically? Moderation resources? #EuroskyLive

@eurosky.social‘s live event has its own starter pack now: #EuroskyLive

What if you could use @curvenote.com editor to continuously publish #Research to @pipup.social or @leaflet.pub publications, that's then reviewed by the verified peers on #Semble @cosmik.network and chronicled to your #Lanyard throughout your academic career? 🤯 #ATmosphere 🌀 #ATscience 🧪 #ATproto

made it partially compatible with plc.directory API surface! it now returns your DID document and the chronologically ordered list of its operations... ...it can technically be used in as a replacement for plc.directory ...until it blows up over an `unwrap()' 😂

In case you wonder which platforms are here to help creators thrive and which are here to tell us to eat shit, here’s the breakdown of likes for crab, 15 hours after posting. Follower count in () for more useful comparison. TikTok(2k): 139 Instagram (22k): 719 Tumblr (13k): 12k Bsky (52k): 22k

So cool to be able to let users signal their data preferences, and in a protocolized way so that all ATProto apps can reuse it. It’s a great fit for us with semble.so and we’re planning to incorporate it there!

Meanwhile on the Fediverse - exciting demo of Bonfire for Open Science! Enables creating highly configurable community spaces & also includes ORCID login + post to DOI conversion with Zenodo An ATProto integration for this would be 🔥 indieweb.social/@bonfire/115...

The only consistent thing about decentralization, since I started in 2012, has been this: nobody agrees on the definition

this is a great and important effort! even with PLC moving out of Bluesky PBC it is important to have more replicas, especially with regional diversity and the ability to "step in" and accept ops if needed. strong endorse work in this direction.

Finally publishing this about PLC! On a day with big PLC news!! I think the news recasts this piece into more "why that's important", and less doom hopefully!

It's good to have mirrors but I don't believe they'd give us credible exit against a bad PLC directory operator. They'll just stop serving the mirrors before they start dicking us around. Stopping APIs that only nerds care about is Day 0 of enshittification. It always happens, and it happens first.

Last Friday, members of eurosky.social and the ATProto x Science Community met for a brief meeting. We explored the overlaps between these two initiatives and the people involved. Meeting notes: discourse.atprotocol.community/t/meeting-no...

The thing that still pisses me off about dark forest theory is that it is predicated on the inability to coordinate, and you know say have a society.

@tgoerke.bsky.social a useful ‘letter to the dean’ would need to contain a proposal for the moderation/labbeling method, right?

very excited to share this update about bringing AT to the IETF! last week we uploaded two drafts to the IETF datatracker and today we heard that we’re approved to host a Birds of a Feather at IETF 124 (the formal meeting towards establishing a working group)

Some of my local bsky folks also at #Volksstimmefest today?

@werbefrei.bsky.social www.rbb24.de/panorama/bei... @hhwerbefrei.bsky.social

I've updated my Quarto comments extension to support Bluesky, as well as Mastodon/Fediverse! Any replies on either network *should* now appear in a nice unified interface, along with links and current comment counts. andreasthinks.me/posts/quarto...

IMO the term ‘Enshittifaction’ has risen to the top because: 1. Allows to act out against the widespread taboo of ‘you shall not talk about matters around excretion’. 2. Allows to skip analytical work to distinguish between multiple effects we dislike - very useful for defending cynical positions.

‘Bluesky Is Dying’ seems to contradict current stats. It’s just stagnating, eagerly awaiting the next lesson on ‘the dire consequences of an untreated god complex’ by en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher... bluefacts.app/bluesky-user...

Reuters reports on our Eurosky initiative whose goal it is to establish a full, legally compliant #ATProto stack in Europe. But not only that - we’re working on a commons moderation service that can act as an incubator for smaller ATProto devs.

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

Looks like the component that carries ALL the weight of ‘credible exit’ marketing claims is exposed to increasing levels of spam/dos. *absolutely nobody* saw that coming. /SCNR Longterm viable ‘DID:PLC Registry Write Access Governance Model’, anyone?

I should clarify I mean that Bluesky is uniquely positioned in the journalism space as a platform that isn't antagonistic to publishers and also has a huge user base that is very actively engaged with news media. The Fediverse meanwhile has lots of properties conducive to local community building.

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

Johannes Kühlewindt from @radicle.xyz will discuss how moderation can work in peer-to-peer networks without central authorities, using radicle as a case study. He’ll discuss cryptographic identities, trust graphs, and the balance between openness and governance.

#Serbia is showing us the way: The core of the current protest movement has been built by committed students and professors, across all disciplines. They are calling for: ‘International Academic Solidarity’ Let’s build these networks ASAP! Historical reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkele...

@lessig.bsky.social Serbia is showing the way: linktr.ee/academic.sol... #AaronSwartz would have loved this I believe.

This UI is such a cool idea: let users determine the degree to which their feed is popular versus reverse chronological. Via @joe.sprk.team's excellent #ahoy25 talk

So grateful I was invited at @ahoy.eu to talk about power concentrations in the ATmosphere! In my talk I tried to make clear there is no social media without conflict, but we need to build democratic institutions to balance between feudalism and social norm conflict exhaustion.

Ok, looks like I’ve got one spare #ticket for #ahoy @ahoy.eu Will give it away for the incredibly low price of ‘0.01 units of thankfulness’ 🤗 Underprivileged folks get priority, otherwise: first come first serve.

#ahoy ! Omw to @ahoy.eu #IndieSky #Hamburg I’m interested in #OpenScience: Which protocols/architectures are best suited for scientific communication? What is the role of our global #science community and #academia (institutions) in building/supporting critical #OpenSocialWeb infrastructure?