I'm seeing stuff about BlueSky having video now, which I guess is cool.
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I'm seeing stuff about BlueSky having video now, which I guess is cool.
Still waiting for them to actually offer options besides the proprietary instance so it stops being simply another centralized service, though.
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none gender with left politicsreplied to Owashii :corgi:🐾:therian: last edited by
@owashe bluesky says they allow federation now, but I've yet to see any other instances pop up. I've said it before, but their federation is purely theoretical until proven otherwise.
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Baral'heia Stormdancer ΘΔ🐲replied to none gender with left politics last edited by
@vikxin @owashe I've been doing a lot of digging into this lately... Their architecture is completely different than Fedi/ActivityPub, as they want to replicate the "global network" feel of Twitter. Because of that, it's never going to have the same "communities that can also talk to one another" feel that Fedi has.
They DO now have a distributed network of "personal data servers", or PDSs - including ones owned by the community - but that's not federation in the same sense as, say, Mastodon. As far as I can tell, everything still relies on BlueSky's Relay (previously called the BGS or Big Graph Service).
More details here: https://social.beaware.live/@BeAware/113101470288348371
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none gender with left politicsreplied to Baral'heia Stormdancer ΘΔ🐲 last edited by
@baralheia @owashe @BeAware this sounds like moderation at scale is gonna be even worse than masto
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Baral'heia Stormdancer ΘΔ🐲replied to none gender with left politics last edited by
@vikxin @owashe @BeAware I still don't fully understand how they intend to handle moderation at scale. The framework they've built is called "composable moderation" (described here: https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-12-2024-stackable-moderation) with the idea that there's multiple layers; the baseline is enforced by Bluesky's in-house moderation team, but then you can subscribe to third-party labeler services that allow you to filter content in your feed based on whether or not they're tagged with specific labels. They even open-sourced their admin tool, Ozone, ostensibly to allow others to also run moderation services... but I can't wrap my brain around how that would work in practice, or how permissions work to even allow moderation actions to happen in the first place. I think Ozone works in concert with a labeler service, so if you run a labeler you can also provide moderation actions too? But it's clear as mud to me as to how third-party moderation coexists with BlueSky (the company)'s moderation services on the network. Like, if a mod for a labeler says a post is bad, does it just get hidden for those users that subscribe to the labeler, or does it disappear from the network? (I guess it just gets hidden only for those that subscribe to the labeler?) And if I'm incorrect and they actually intend to moderate everything that goes through Bluesky (the company)'s relay and appviews in-house... they're going to have to grow a sizeable admin team to deal with scale.
If you manage to figure it out, can you explain it to me please? :dragn_woozy:
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BeAware :fediverse:replied to Baral'heia Stormdancer ΘΔ🐲 last edited by
@baralheia @vikxin @owashe I don't know any of these answers either but I have many knowledgeable people in my circle and I've boosfed this so hopefully you can get answers at some point.