Slightly off topic, but it seems that "cid" for identifier along with URI. How cid is generated? Is it completely random?
it's a hash: https://atproto.com/specs/did-plc
I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky
191–200 of 294 posts
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
Character limits for one thing. "text": { "type": "string", "maxLength": 3000, "maxGraphemes": 300 } https://atproto.com/lexicons/app-bsky-feed#appbskyfeedpost
How is that a benefit over ActivityPub? Hard-coding a post size limit in the protocol seems like a negative thing to me?
Because it's a microblog like Twitter.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Character limits for one thing. "text": { "type": "string", "maxLength": 3000, "maxGraphemes": 300 } https://atproto.com/lexicons/app-bsky-feed#appbskyfeedpost
The mastodon server I use has a max length of 5k characters, so not really.
That's not part of the ActivityPub protocol.
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem is when B comes across a A post and reposts it to B’s followers with a call to action to harass A. If you don’t give A the ability to avoid this by influencing A’s presence on B’s feed, A will quit the platform entirely, and B will have been rewarded (with engagement) and incentivized to stir up mobs in the future. It creates a toxic environment. Blocking is an effective speed bump to this happening!
> The problem is when B comes across a A post and reposts it to B’s followers with a call to action to harass A. Realistically, there is no way to prevent this. Even if you prevent B from interacting with A via the platform itself, they can always just take a screenshot and post that. Or copy-paste the text. Or numerous other ways.
Realistically 99% of the harassment is stopped by such feature, humans are foul and lazy creatures, most harassment happens because it's really easy to do it, when you create such bumps it stops most of it, if you want to stop it 100% that's another discussion worth having but by no means a good argument against such blocking.
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#195Hm, I thought 'order by' clause took a column name, not a table sub-expression.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
TBH I haven't paid much attention to it, but as somebody who was already using Mastodon as their primary social network for years before Musk took over, I'm not sure I understand what niche BlueSky is even supposed to fill that ActivityPub/Fediverse doesn't already fill. It just seems like a bunch of guys who got ousted from their jobs trying to invent a new commercial social network. And one of the things that needs…
Maybe some folks like yourself thought Twitter was terrible before, but plenty of people were happy enough until certain changes by Musk. Mastodon itself had a large growth recently as people left Twitter in response. I had an automated bot running for a long time on Twitter that I was happy with, until recently when API access was cut off. Now I'm looking for a new platform for my bot to run on as a direct result of…
For an automated bot making announcement-like posts, a Twitter page is simply a web page with subscriptions for those having a Twitter account: you naturally assume everybody has a Twitter account and checks it regularly, or put more negatively, you ignore anyone not on Twitter.
Mastodon would serve exactly the same purpose with the set of people being "ignored" being much larger.
Email newsletter services would pretty much include everyone (on the internet, at least).
What kind of bot did you run?
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#197I would just like to say that I am excited for Bluesky to exist. It might go poorly, but I'm unwilling to write off weird attempts at innovation before the technology has had a chance to evolve in the wild. I've seen several posts lately that have made me feel like the HN sentiment towards Bluesky is negative. Throwing them under the bus for the domain validation mistake. Hatred at commercialization of a protocol. Qu…
Did you read any content of top posts shown in the article ? …it is quite toxic stuff. Seems like foreshadow . Hate to kill optimism though.
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#198I would just like to say that I am excited for Bluesky to exist. It might go poorly, but I'm unwilling to write off weird attempts at innovation before the technology has had a chance to evolve in the wild. I've seen several posts lately that have made me feel like the HN sentiment towards Bluesky is negative. Throwing them under the bus for the domain validation mistake. Hatred at commercialization of a protocol. Qu…
A worse Twitter? The amount of blatant racism, bigotry, and calls for violence have exploded in the past couple of months. These people all buy blue checks so they get amplified. It's insane. My bluesky invite cannot come soon enough.
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#199That's so much smaller than I expected. Mastodon stats claim 1.1B posts [1]. Both are growing fast, but I'm surprised by that gap.
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#200I would just like to say that I am excited for Bluesky to exist. It might go poorly, but I'm unwilling to write off weird attempts at innovation before the technology has had a chance to evolve in the wild. I've seen several posts lately that have made me feel like the HN sentiment towards Bluesky is negative. Throwing them under the bus for the domain validation mistake. Hatred at commercialization of a protocol. Qu…
A worse Twitter? The amount of blatant racism, bigotry, and calls for violence have exploded in the past couple of months. These people all buy blue checks so they get amplified. It's insane. My bluesky invite cannot come soon enough.
I haven’t seen this…