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Ms Boba (rebuilding community era)

@essentialrandom.bsky.social

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https://essentialrandomness.com Software engineer (and more) on a mission to bring community back to the web. Founder of @fujoweb.dev, https://fujocoded.com/ and https://bobaboard.com/. Loves building random, chaotically-delightful stuff. 🇪🇺🇺🇸

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Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · Nov 29

Hello! I'm Ms Boba, and I'm a software dev + fandom person who really 💜s the web.

Check out some of the projects I founded in the quoted post 👇, and help us help niche online communities take back their internet by supporting us on Patreon!

www.patreon.com/c/fujocoded

FujoCoded LLC – A better web, together @fujocoded.bsky.social · Sep 30

Longing for an internet that's kinder, queerer, and just plain more fun? FujoCoded LLC works to bring internet weirdos together and to empower niche communities to reclaim their online spaces!

Help us help the web by supporting our work today!

patreon.com/fujocoded

Other links below 🔗👇

Overview of the FujoVerse, with the logos arranged on a grid. Support us today! Patreon.com/fujocoded

FujoCoded - our projects

The Fujoshi Guide to Web Development - The cast lineup of shippable ikemen tech concepts.

Accessible guides to modern web development for the niche subcultures of the web. By professionals, for everyone.

Fandom Coders - Boba-tan winking as she holds a rubber duck.

A judgement-free learning community for software weavers at all levels building the fandom web and beyond.

BobaBoard - Boba-tan winning a plushie of her blorbo in a crane game.

Self-hostable forum software updated for today's online dwellers. An active experiment in shared governance and collective building.

...and more! - AO3.js and Astrolabe logos.

Tools, libraries, and gatherings to help people bootstrap their coding projects or find open initiatives to contribute to.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 20h

Why? Because people only report their enemies, and they report a lot of things that aren't actionable in the hopes of getting their enemies in trouble. The standard industry assumption is that between 90-95% of user reports are reports of non-actionable content.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 20h

People once again need to internalize that "generative AI" is a small subset of machine learning, that machine learning is a critical tool that you cannot run a site without past a certain volume Bluesky has long since exceeded, and that it is FAR more reliable than user reporting.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 20h

Also, you can't be simultaneously upset that the ML classifier gets things wrong and be upset at the thought of training on user data, because the two are mutually exclusive. The only way to get more accurate ML models is to retrain with real-world examples.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 20h

This is going around again and it is not true. Like every site on the internet, Bluesky uses machine learning to do a first-pass approximation of image classification to detect and label content. They have repeatedly confirmed outside services do not use Bluesky user data to train their models.

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Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · 19h

it's not like people aren't here trying to fix some of those problems by making moderation easier to do at scale in a decentralized ecosystem

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Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · 1d

Friends, we a cow to cute-ify

bsky.app/profile/bail...

Bailey Townsend 🦀 @baileytownsend.dev · 1d

I love that cow lol. I do wonder if that would be enough, mostly just been hoping it can fly under the radar. Did debate about seeing if someone in the community wanted to take a shot at making a just as cute(or cuter) one

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🄟ᴀᴛ://𝙍𝙄𝘾𝙆 @alt.psingletary.com · 1d

well we were in @essentialrandom.bsky.social stream.place stream chatting about it and pretty sure that post is your community call now....

a man is laying on a bed with the words life moves pretty fast on the bottom

Alt: a man is laying on a bed with the words life moves pretty fast on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · 1d

And finally, nothing stops a client application from going directly to a user's PDS to get data from them if needed.

There's obviously challenges, but it's far from impossible.

Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · 1d

According to where the ban is:
- If the Bsky relay stops serving a records from a PDS, another relay service could replay the Bluesky relay exactly, but add more records in
- If an AppView stops serving records from a user, you could build an AppView that leverages Bsky's and puts those record in

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Femcel Succubus 🔞 @boobkiwi.bsky.social · 1d

A comic where a woman is forcing kiwi to sign a contract.

The woman says.
“YES DOLL! SIGN THAT CONTRACT AND BECOME WHAT YOU WHERE ALWAYS MEANT TO BE
MY PROPERTY!!!”

Legal Eagle appears and says

“Actually, here's why that probably wouldn't hold up in court.”

And the girls respond
“LEGAL EAGLE!!!”

@BRYNKIWI

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Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · 1d

What's this I hear about OpenID but actually good?

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Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! Totally feasible, and at multiple levels according to where the moderation was applied. It doesn't even have to be an alternative "full-stack" solution. Any single part of the protocol stack can do some version of this.

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Devin Gaffney @devingaffney.com · 1d

lmao no worries! Graze Social PBC officially releases the name Moolissa for any cow based brand to use, this is an official statement

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Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · 1d

"Are we going to talk about the drama?" (chants) I'm a strong woman who cannot be baited into commenting on discourse... I'm a strong woman who cannot be baited into commenting on discourse... I'm a strong woman who cannot be baited into commenting on discourse...

Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · 1d

Today, we're cleansing the ~bad vibes~ by helping folks with some of the ATproto work they're doing, from writing articles about how it all works for fans (bluedreaming.dreamwidth.org/75226.html) to fanfiction Lexicons 👀

www.twitch.tv/essentialran...
stream.place/essentialran...

EssentialRandomness - Twitch

A (staff) Software Engineer with a passion for fandom, introducing more people to the magic of web development and Astro. Both beginners and advanced viewers welcome!

www.twitch.tv

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Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · 1d

people are disconnected from how tech works... they're disconnected from how capital works.... they're disconnected from how community works.... it be rough out there, man

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Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · 1d

and hey! they could always make it worth their mental health and time by paying them an absurd amount of money with the (looks at funds raised) barely above peanuts they have available for an effort of this size

Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · 1d

(through tears) why can't bluesky just find a head of communications... it's such a rewarding and easy job.... skilled people who're good enough for such a delicate position will just be lining up for taking it on..... clearly the team most not want one or find value in them....

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 1d

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Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · 1d

The Lord gives the hardest battles (trying to inject some nuance into this whole thing) to the strongest soldiers (me, apparently)

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Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I am working on something similar and also, well, a good material for the long form text working group :)

However, I'd also like to see the reverse: the ability to add things written in a different lexicon to your publication.

Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · 1d

Going to put dishes away before streaming (and before my boyfriend kills me)

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 1d

I love that my feed is still full of people building and lifting each other's work up through the noise

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Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · 1d

They really do, and there's a job posting for Head of Communications too! Though, really, would *you* want the job? Man, it really is a tough nut to crack.

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Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · 1d

This is re:this thread.

(And if your answer to this is "they need a larger moderator team!", well, yes but no. If the answer were that easy, or if applying that answer were that easy, the internet would look VERY different right now.)

bsky.app/profile/aaro...

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 1d

People often ask why we don’t act on off-platform evidence when investigating reports. Here’s an example of how complex that can get. 1/9

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