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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 9h

Imagine being Peter Thiel’s therapist… 😬

Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 11h

Well I just voted so I can now! 🤣

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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 15h

I'm doing live updates on the local election results this afternoon on RNZ, if you want to be the first to know how much of a crushing victory 'did not vote' had across the country

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 13h

But also - *you can complain* if you didn’t vote, complaining is a civic duty!

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 13h

Just got in line 😅

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 1d

I saw a tourist get fully bodied by an airborne street sign on Cuba St yesterday. Will have some massive bruising.

She said complained that she alway got injured on holiday and slowly limped off 😑

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 1d

They let it slip that they’re a dog!

Old cartoon saying “On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."

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Nick Baker @nickbaker.digital · 2d

Overheard in the office.

Owner discussing using a piece of software internally before using it for any client solutions

"It will be like, what's that saying? Eating our own dogshit"

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 1d

Needs Googly Eyes 👀 on those nips

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 1d

Best poster this political season #NZPol

Colourful poster with a Moa on it saying “Make the Basin a Swamp Again”, found in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand

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Logan Dupont @logandupont.com · 2d

Indeed, when people talks about shadowbanning it's probably linked to one of these 2 cases:
- Account received 'needs-review' label
- scaling/infrastructure limit issue when there are too many replies

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 2d

Just remembering the time that National/Paula Bennet leaked my name and contact details to the media over the MSD ‘hack’

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 2d

See here

bsky.app/profile/qazm...

Qazm @qazm.de · 3d

My guess would be a `!needs-review` label (which is very much needed to deal with spammers, unfortunately).

I saw that recently on a new account that boosted many funding links and had really high skeet volume because they thought that'd help. I told them to cool it some, label got removed later.

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 2d

Which is essentially a shadow ban, if they don’t get notified of the ban.

Also there’s another content flag ‘’!needs-review” or something like that which also hides posts and replies without much feedback for the user.

So you’ll see a post with 4 replies but only 3 visible. Very confusing!

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 2d

Actually I think it’s a bit more than that? I took a look at a few cases and there’s a situation where a banned user can still post, especially if they are hosted on a third party PDS like blacksky.

But not sure if they get notifications that they are banned/suspended and just ignore them?

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 5d

a bunch of folks are wondering about how mod comms work for other PDS instances. this is also a problem for, eg, labelers trying to reply to appeals.

the plan is this proposal, which we have been making slow progress towards (it has been a very very busy 12 months for mod eng team)

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 3d

Can I ask a couple of questions?

What app are you using?

And if you’re ok to DM me your other handle I can take a look

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 3d

Any yes, that would totally count as a shadow ban if they didn't let you know that you were banned/suspended!

I think I was confused there for a while as your profile pic is the same for both accounts.

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 3d

So @igorbiccas.bsky.social you're saying:
- you have another account
- that account is banned account by bluesky
- you *can still post and reply* with that banned account
- it doesn't show up for anyone else

AFAIK, you shouldn't be able to login and post unless your account is on a non-bluesky PDS?

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 3d

Why would you black out your own handle in the screenshot? 🤔

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 3d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 3d

Pretty sure it’s scaling/infrastructure limit issue. Here’s the explanation from a BlueSky engineer on exactly what’s happening when a similar thing happened a month ago (posts disappearing and then reappearing)

bsky.app/profile/esb....

Eric @esb.lol · Aug 16

In this case it's just that this endpoint is unfortunately still pretty dumb, and it's prefixed with "unspecced" to reflect this. This endpoint, like the old one, still loads everything into memory before traversal/rendering. Not ideal.

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 3d

Oh that's a cool write up 👀

I was going to do OAuth but decided not to burn tokens on getting that working vs shipping something useful.

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 3d

Ah that's great context, thanks.

Will reference this the next time people bring up shadow banning!

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 3d

Especially since:
- I don't know rust *AT ALL*
- This is my first rust project
- I literally haven't even glanced at the code

But I do have 15 years of fixing other people's code and shipping it to prod, so that does help 😅

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