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bryan newbold

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oscilloscopes, cycling, snow, big cities, wiki. I like speculating about found objects. protocol engineer @bsky.app. formerly archive.org elsewhere: bnewbold.net / @[email protected]

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 2m

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Samuel @samuel.fm · 11h

I won’t consider Discover to be good until it starts serving me Iranian mid-rise brick architecture

Iranian building with a beautiful brick facade

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 1h

opened an issue here, lmk what you think

bluesky-social/indigo

Go source code for Bluesky's atproto services. Contribute to bluesky-social/indigo development by creating an account on GitHub.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 1h

I love this, thank you Nighthaven 🙇

bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 2h

still gotta land that! and some replication improvements.

but yeah trajectory is good

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 3h

seeing some network disruption impacting the bsky relay and other services

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 18h

yeah probably. or quebec, lots of hydro

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 19h

oooooo

bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 19h

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 21h

also relevant: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...

bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 21h

basically yes.

as a fine detail the header contains a "DID service reference", and the DID document service entry points to the appview URL

atproto.com/specs/xrpc#s...

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 1d

it is narratively stronger if somebody who is not bsky does this. we also have a bajillion urgent priorities, and this could be risk to our existing app release process, so I don't think we are going to do it ourselves (though I could be wrong)

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 1d

I think even if 2 was not a factor, we still would not allow this configuration. Bluesky Social, with our name+logo, is an experience we are responsible for.

it would be great if somebody took the social-app codebase, stripped out branding, made appview configurable, and published in appstores

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 1d

there are potentially new legal issues, like age verification stuff.

the main issues, and why we don't support this in our app, are:

1) combination of responsibility, moral jurisdiction, and brand risk
2) app store policies

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 1d

hi darius!

bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 1d

we are (slowly) making progress on this project, which should improve individual transparency about some of this stuff a bit (though doesn't necessarily help resolve stuff faster)

proposals/0005-mod-history at main · bluesky-social/proposals

Bluesky proposal discussions. Contribute to bluesky-social/proposals development by creating an account on GitHub.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 1d

I think things were normal from roughly march through early august (though I haven't been staying in super close touch).

appeals take longer to review than reports, and borderline cases need to escalate.

bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 1d

you can also observe the negations/updates of labels, which usually indicate a human override. even stronger signal on borderline cases

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 1d

all of our human queues get backed up when there is a crisis or growth surge, and things have been in that state for a few weeks now. we've been hiring more mods and the response time should come down, but it will take time.

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ROOST @roost.tools · 1d

we are, in fact, growing the flock

Email [email protected] with the title if you think you're a good fit!

Anne Bertucio @annebdh.bsky.social · 1d

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This is a fully remote role, though some schedule overlap with North American time zones is expected.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 1d

like if I were you i'd point to exemplar or role-model orgs which are having the outcomes you want.

worker owned co-ops?
non-profit orgs?
collectives?
startups funded or run differently?
big corporations?

bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 1d

to flip the table around here for a moment:

what is the posting strategy and theory of change here? armchair debugging an org's internal dynamics from the outside?

like I guess I do that too in my head, and I know you are talking to an audience, and in good faith, but it lands quixotic with me.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 1d

I'm not trying to say "it was the comms advisor's fault!". we own our comms and messaging, regardless of who we pay or hire.

what i'm knee-jerk reacting to is "it's simple just pay somebody". not it's not.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 1d

you can access his account with other third-party apps:
reddwarf.whey.party/profile/spac...

hopefully that will be possible via the blacksky app before too long.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 1d

I think that, for example, a record ("#main") can not have a union as the top-level schema, it needs to be an object (because the "$type" needs to be the record type, which conflicts with union discriminator).

in other cases i'm not sure, and not the best to ping for TS tooling. maybe @divy.zone

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