And this concludes our social experiment. Thank you for your participation.
Happy birthday to the inimitable Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) journalist, philosopher, civil rights hero. Born into slavery, she documented & campaigned against lynching, & went on to co-founded the NAACP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells
Someone on Mastodon described Bsky as "a bunch of people hanging around in the parking lot after the mall has closed" and I thought it was A) accurate and B) pretty great actually
Welcome to Home+ It's the Home feed Blue Sky was missing until now: A feed that shows those you care about, and adds interesting content from your extended social circles It's the first fully algorithmic feed that offers a twitter home like experience, but without the engagement hacking
as people have pointed out in replies, block party does this! i built the feature bc it made no sense that i had to suffer through seeing abuse when people actively wanted to helped me. a few additional thoughts on implementing delegated moderation: (cont’d)
I’ve said the word “protocol” 1000 times this week… about 980x more than I’ve ever said the word in my life. A protocol is basically a set of instructions for how different machines or apps communicate 💻
people are gonna be so fucking mad once they figure out what decentralization means lol (I expect this instance to moderate in line with mainstream expectations, once the team has time to get the tools in place, but there will be other clients and instances that don't)
a “protocol” is when one computer and another computer love each other very much
long term, with fully portable user accounts, your continued use of our services would be a vote of confidence in us. not a hostage situation where you lose all your friends and creations if you leave. this is set up to be a federated republic, not a walled-off empire.