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Re: I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky

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Post by pabs3 »

SeanAnderson wrote: post #22

I 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…

Pidgin still interfaces with everything, including walled gardens like Facebook :)

https://pidgin.im/plugins/

Re: I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky

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Post by danjac »

SeanAnderson wrote: post #22

I 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…

If this were just a fun side project, great, no problem, let's give people the benefit of the doubt.

However we have seen the harms of social media in all aspects from the self esteem of teenage girls to harassment to financial scams to stochastic terrorism. This isn't 2007 any more, anyone entering the social media arena in 2023 with all we know today has to be prepared for skepticism, scrutiny and criticism, whether they are closed source, open source, protocol based or fully commercial.

Re: I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky

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Post by mort96 »

SeanAnderson wrote: post #22

I 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…

I don't understand why they wouldn't implement ActivityPub-federation. Instead of strengthening the best federated social network, they chose to undermine it. Why?

Re: I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

eat_veggies wrote: post #171
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #146

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Oh, sure, but it would take a while. The system is not Fort Knox. If someone wants to find one of the members that badly, then there are actually easier ways, outside of the system. If we decide that it is a concern, I already know how I'd deal with it. I would add a "governor," to slow the process down. Depending on how the location is updated, that could be enough to render it worthless. People can't even see the "…

The standard solution for dating apps is to snap the location to the nearest x kilometer grid point, so that you are losing information rather than simply adding noise https://robertheaton.com/2018/07/09/how-tinder-keeps-your-lo...

Thanks for that!

Reading it, I'm not so sure it's "standard," as it seems Tinder-specific, but they have done their homework.

I'll have to see what I can do to incorporate something like that.

Re: I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky

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Post by mort96 »

Gigachad wrote: post #121
zimpenfish wrote: post #109

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> User A can have his client filter them out locally We've been trying that with email and spam for the last 3 decades and I've got to tell you the results are not good. > prior to when they'd otherwise be displayed. A has to download the harassment from B just to then filter it locally? Seems like you're putting the onus on A here to do the work. What happens if B sends enough to DOS A's link? Or sends CSAM and now…

It works pretty well on email. When I mark a user as spam or set up a filter rule, all of their content goes direct to spam or even deleted if I want. Doesn't bother me at all. Email has also dealt with the spam issue mostly. If you blast me with too many emails, you get put on a spammer blacklist and servers will just drop the content without delivering it. It also isn't a crime to be unwillingly sent illegal conten…

Email has not solved the spam issue. I regularly get obvious spam email in my inbox, and legit mail still goes in the junk folder from time to time – with gmail. Plus, the automated spam filtering systems make it practically impossible to host your own e-mail, and any self-hosted email will have even worse issues with inbound spam than gmail does.

Spam is at the core of what makes email a terrible example of a federated system, along with absolutely terrible client compatibility issues.

Re: I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

snickerbockers wrote: post #189
barnabee wrote: post #75

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This tells me that you don’t actually want what Twitter is (was?) good at. Mastodon is clearly not a replacement for me. It’s a different type of community/service, one that doesn’t have much value for me. (Not to say it’s bad! I just don’t care for it, it doesn’t do something I want.) Equally, Twitter wasn’t (and mostly still isn’t) terrible for everyone. Everyone gets to choose what it is! I am particular about who…

No, i understand what Twitter is. I was using it as far back as 2009. I have a problem with recent pre-musk changes, such as putting posts from people you dont follow and often dont agree with into your feed to make people argue. If you don't post iften enough, several times a day they will even send you notifications for posts that don't involve you and don't even come from people you follow. And then there's Twitte…

> If you don't post iften enough, several times a day they will even send you notifications for posts that don't involve you and don't even come from people you follow.

I just checked my notifications - of the last ~100, over the last week or so, there's not a single one that isn't directly related to me. I've only posted one tweet in that week.

Re: I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

0xy wrote: post #207
mushbino wrote: post #198

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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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> I presume you would call IQ statistics "racism"

Putting aside the value of IQ figures, no, the figures themselves are not racist. How someone uses them, of course, can be.

Re: I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky

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Post by skneko »

capableweb wrote: post #77
OJFord wrote: post #49

Last time I saw bsky on HN a maintainer shared a skip-waitlist invitation code ('anyone on HN is probably better behaved than some of the trolls we've dealt with', or something to that effect) - which was unfortunately dead by the time I found it। Any chance of an encore? Or I am on the waitlist: something I don't recall at username dot com।

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For no apparent reason, here you can find my key ;P http://pgp.rediris.es:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF7662...

Re: I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

brvsft wrote: post #89
dragonwriter wrote: post #72

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You can just not click on Bluesky links, no one is forcing you to read articles you aren’t interested in.

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> no one would give a single shit if it were created by some unknown person

Sure, general-purpose social networks need a large reach to be of value. This is not insight.

Re: I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky

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Post by 0xy »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #217
0xy wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> I presume you would call IQ statistics "racism" Putting aside the value of IQ figures, no, the figures themselves are not racist. How someone uses them, of course, can be.

Given IQ statistics throw a pretty big spanner in the works of white supremacists by showing them that Ashkenazi Jews are the top of the average list, it's pretty hard to see how they're racist.
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