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Nelind @nel.pet · 1m

and then also automatically opting out (defederating) at a later point if a PDS exceeds a configured amount of accounts. this is just as possible on AP as it is here. the fact that every node can choose if they federate or not is a fundamental property of a federated network

Nelind @nel.pet · 1m

in every federated network every node/actor has to decided to either federate or not with any other node/actor. federation is always opt-in. its just that most instances in AP will automatically opt-in but wont automatically opt-out. what bluesky is essentially doing here is automatically opting in

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Nelind @nel.pet · 52m

its honestly bad how few people in most ECHR member states even know that the ECHR is a thing

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Nelind @nel.pet · 1h

the fact that both the big right wing parties in the UK want to take the UK out of the ECHR is ... concerning

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Nelind @nel.pet · 3h

tbh kinda wanna make a macro or function that just executes a future directly without calling out to a runtime like spawn_blocking or something

it would be a dumb idea to use it in an async function ofc but could be useful for sync projects that have that ooone async call they need to make i think

Nelind @nel.pet · 3h

okay i really desperately need people to understand that rust async != tokios approach to executing futures!!

one of the frequent complaints about async that i see from people is that they dont wanna deal with everything needing to be Send and Sync. thats not an async thing!! thats a tokio thing!!

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Nelind @nel.pet · 3h

even further this is a thing that happens in activitypub too. its called defederation ...

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Nelind @nel.pet · 3h

also the async/await isnt some magic thing. Future is literally just a trait if you want you can just implement it yourself. thats a bit of a pain to do but you can. theoretically async/await could literally just have been two macros

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Nelind @nel.pet · 3h

okay i really desperately need people to understand that rust async != tokios approach to executing futures!!

one of the frequent complaints about async that i see from people is that they dont wanna deal with everything needing to be Send and Sync. thats not an async thing!! thats a tokio thing!!

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Nelind @nel.pet · 17h

ahhh no!! :( i hope bit gags work out for you!

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Nelind @nel.pet · 19h

apparently this whole thing was on purpose too ...
github.com/bluesky-soci...

idk what the intention here is exactly. if its intentded to be implemented again eventually. not having it is just tenable imo. text only posts need to be self label-able and those lables need to actually do something

Conditionally render labels button when media exists in post by haileyok · Pull Request #5942 · bluesky-social/social-app

Why We only want to show the "Labels" button right now whenever there is media in the post that a label can be added to. Test Plan The labels button should show up when: A link embed is ...

github.com

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Nelind @nel.pet · 20h

no right?? the label handling is ... it leaves something to be desired

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Nelind @nel.pet · 20h

yea exactly. i got tired of waiting on PBC to implement it so im hacking at it in catsky and like ... allowing the labeling is really easy. 2 line change. but THEY DONT DO ANYTHING which makes them rather useless ... kinda needs an upstream change to support this if it is to be useful 😭

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Nelind @nel.pet · 20h

at this point i feel like the social app code base needs a general overhaul of how posts and labels are displayed this thing is a mess

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Nelind @nel.pet · 20h

im sorry what ... chaging the moderation setting on "Sexually Suggestive" from warn to hide makes the completely seperate label "Adult Content" also hide-ish ... wtf??? why do the setting from one label affect how another label is handled in any way shape or form???

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Nelind @nel.pet · 20h

at least the like "fyi your post has been labeled thing" shows up so thats ... *something*

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Nelind @nel.pet · 20h

yesss exactly

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Nelind @nel.pet · 20h

messing with allowing self-labelling on text only posts in catsky but the handling of labels on text only posts is ... not great. i had a feeling about that from just yk ... using the app but rargh annoying

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Nelind @nel.pet · 20h

riiight so ... self label got added to the post, yay! appview includes it in responses, also yay! client does like fuck all with it!! not yay!!!

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Nelind @nel.pet · 20h

test post thingyy

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Nelind @nel.pet · 1d

which is why we should offer taking proper backups and rotation keys. then even a PDS level suspension is recoverable

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Nelind @nel.pet · 1d

yea exactly we have migration tools for this situation already. in-app migration right at suspension could be good for some but i think in-app backups to fully "cover your ass" is just as important

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Nelind @nel.pet · 1d

if its appview or labeler level then its just a migration or other ordinary PDS side export like action yea! quite easy. essentially a built in migration tool. for PDS level suspension idk if you can migrate at that point ive never actually tried that ... and theres also adversarial migration

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dan @danabra.mov · 1d

basically i think the Bluesky client app itself needs to include “enough” tooling to protect yourself from Bluesky, with no need to evaluate and trust third party tools. should be part of the package

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Nelind @nel.pet · 1d

omg seri yes!! some easy way for people to regularly take repo and blob backups + manage a personal rotation key. especially now that blacksky is setting up their own appview, making sure that people dont lose their data due to lack of technical knowledge on how to secure themselves is important

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

I've been radio silent because I'm in the process of standing up an app.bsky.* API server (aka app-view aka Barnes & Nobles). This is an expensive and time intensive operation that I didn't want to do until it was necessary.
It's a fail-safe not a differentiator in experience, but important 7/11

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