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Ryan @snarfed.org · 1d

also, to follow up on @quillmatiq.com's comment, this could be built by anyone, not just us!

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 1d

we added that a while ago! fed.brid.gy/docs#block

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 2d

if you unfollow and refollow, that will reactivate the bridge

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 2d

To be fair, people who are very good at something are often bad at explaining why they're good at it, or how they do it

Still hilarious though

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 2d

Open question! Likely app-specific

Ryan @snarfed.org · 3d

you disable by blocking, not by unfollowing. (or by DMing "stop," or by logging into fed.brid.gy and clicking the toggle.) fed.brid.gy/docs#opt-out

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 3d

they disabled the bridge, sorry

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 3d

It's definitely possible, the bsky.app client specifically just doesn't support rendering edits yet. Others do!

Bluesky edits aren't visible (blocked on bsky.app) · Issue #947 · snarfed/bridgy-fed

https://bsky.app/profile/snarfed.org.web.brid.gy/post/3kps4z7ve6hg2 is federated from https://snarfed.org/2024-04-10_52782 . I originally posted (and federated) it without u-photo, so the image did...

github.com

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 3d

Thanks! And you report them using Bluesky's and Mastodon's built in reporting features. We detect and bridge those reports.

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 3d

We aren't able to detect this kind of activity automatically, and we don't have the context or experience needed to identify it that people like you do, so we depend on you all: fed.brid.gy/docs#moderat... . And it is working, I'm seeing these accounts start to get taken down. Thank you again!

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 3d

Hey, yes! We've been talking to a few people about it, eg IFTAS.

Sounds like you and others have been finding and reporting the accounts. Thank you! That's the most important part. We bridge those reports across to the accounts' original network and instances, in both directions.

Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services

Since 15 September, IFTAS has been tracking a coordinated network of accounts operating across Mastodon. These accounts are engaged in a high-volume propaganda campaign, promoting pro-Russian narra…

about.iftas.org

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 3d

I wish we could make these dashboards public! Google Cloud Monitoring doesn't support that right now; hopefully they will eventually. issuetracker.google.com/issues/35410...

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 3d

A glimpse into the Bridgy Fed monitoring dashboards. Pretty conventional mix of infra, OS, and app level metrics.

Note the delay numbers. When you do something in one network, how quickly do we bridge it across? We pay a lot of attention to that, we try hard to keep it as fast as possible!

monitoring dashboard with graphs for user count, receive/send/ATProto serve/ATProto consume delays, tasks run, and processing delays

monitoring dashboard with graphs for task results, task queues, CPU, and memory

monitoring dashboard with graphs for receive protocols, types, source instances, and ATProto firehose commits

monitoring dashboard with graphs for unsupported activities and sent activities by protocol and type

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 4d

Tiling! Always tiling

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Ryan @snarfed.org · Jan 13

Nothing has made me feel more like a graybeard recently than seeing people use "the internet" to mean social networking, or what people are saying to each other online, instead of the series of tubes and hardware and software that carry data packets from one networked device to another.

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 7d

Yes! This thing is awesome, I'm a huge fan of it, and of his work in general.

Also, the predecessor project observatory.cyber.harvard.edu already has a corollary in ufos.microcosm.blue 🤩

Fediverse Schema Observatory

observatory.cyber.harvard.edu

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 9d

Also, ideas are worth much less than people think. Execution and iteration make them valuable. Don't keep them secret; tell as many people as you can, get feedback, it's critical to bringing them to fruition.

Ryan @snarfed.org · 12d

wowww. end of an era. they (and we!) have been lucky to have you for as long as we did. loved working with you. best of luck!

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 13d

yes! brid.gy/about#micropub

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 14d

Oof, sorry @stefanbohacek.bsky.social! Definitely agreed, ideally we should notify you if your bridged account gets suspended on Bluesky. The catch is, I'm not sure if there's anywhere that we can listen for appview-level account suspensions like this. Feel free to follow github.com/snarfed/brid...

Fediverse => ATProto: what to do when Bluesky bridged account gets suspended? · Issue #2067 · snarfed/bridgy-fed

I dont often check my bridged-to-BS account. But it is now saying my account is suspended. What do we do in this situation? I email BS support, but they just said "Kindly check the email address li...

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 14d

I remember cosplaying as a network engineer for a school project ages ago, had a lot of fun writing RFC-style ASCII art packet layout diagrams

P4 Protocol Specification v0.2

Version 0.2, April 6 2002. Also see P4 and P4 Proposal. Ken Ashcraft, Ryan Barrett, Maulik Shah, Nathan Stoll 1. Introduction 2. Protocol Definition 2.1. Message Overview 2.2. Connecting and Discon…

snarfed.org

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Eugen Rochko @gargron.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 26

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware.

#android #google

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 17d

no, amount of decentralization is orthogonal to moderation policies

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 20d

Congratulations! Big milestone, excited that you all are far enough along here to announce!

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 20d

office

Small green garden with winding staircase, half wall, vertical planter, top of laptop screen in foreground

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