Update after the Bluesky crash: We decided to reset/refresh the cursor, because given the unstable situation on the Bluesky side we were unable to catch up with the backlog without a major architectural rebuild. We learned a lot, though, and will consider that rebuild for the near future.

What a day, huh? Relaunched the labeling service now, will first try to digest several (currently 8) hours of accumulated backlog, but unless we can catch up significantly within the next 2-3 hours we will reset the cursor to the current firehose head, prioritizing fresh posts.

Update: Service relaunched from fresh firehose cursor. Still analyzing the cause of the interruption, but labels should now start appearing again. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Experiencing some unplanned service downtime. Apologies. Will be relaunching asap.

Alt Text Labeler Statistics Update: In the past 24 hours, ≈3.44m posts were created on Bluesky, 17% of which included images. Only 27% of image posts had alt text. During that time, the labeler • published ≈415k labels • with 90.5% avg label visibility* *within 5 minutes after post creation

Alt Text Labeler Statistics Update: In the past 18 hours, ≈2.5m posts were created on Bluesky, 16% of which included images. Only 27% of image posts had alt text. During that time, the labeler • published ≈290k labels • with 90% avg label visibility* *within 5 minutes after post creation

Hello. This auto-labeler reads the firehose, filters for posts with images, checks whether or not the images have alt text (after cleaning whitespace) and - currently - applies one of two labels: 1/6