Congrats to Skeets for making it to the App Store! Definitely give it a try if you’re on iOS!
Skeets App@skeetsapp.com· 16 Jan 2024🎉 Skeets is finally available in the App Store 🎉
Thanks so much to everyone who participated in testing the app in the development process!
Skeets
Skeets is a native Bluesky app that supports both iOS and iPad OS.
Amongst other features the app offers:
ִ• Retain the reading position within switching feeds
• Privacy by processing most ...
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every frazeemas, paul federates down the chimney and leaves bugs in all the children’s stockings
8Wait a sec you should totally be able to share invite codes as QR codes. why isn’t that a thing. It’s so awkward giving them to people IRL
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@ansh.bsky.team and I are practically soulmates given how often I run into him deep in the github issues
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tl;dr gigacontraption under construction
Samuel@samuel.fm· 16 Jan 2024WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE UPCOMING MODERATION SERVICES FEATURE
The Bluesky team is working hard on a new feature called Moderation Services, to help with community moderation.
Like how custom feeds are advanced versions of curation lists, mod services are like advanced versions of mod lists.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE UPCOMING MODERATION SERVICES FEATURE
The Bluesky team is working hard on a new feature called Moderation Services, to help with community moderation.
Like how custom feeds are advanced versions of curation lists, mod services are like advanced versions of mod lists.
1 39 75Mod services, like custom feeds, are services that you host independently, and then can subscribe to in the app. They basically provide the same sort of options as the current "content filters" in the app settings - except people can make their own ones! They can also recieve reports!
1 2 19In fact, Bluesky's default moderation system will move to this system (although you won't be able to unsubscribe from it, for obvious reasons). But if you wanted to take a much harsher stance on say, hate speech, you could host a mod service and label hateful posts yourself - and get reports too!
1 6 22Paul shared a WIP screenshot of what this is going to look like. From a user point of view, you can find a moderation service, and then hide/warn/show the posts and profiles that it labels.
1 3 22Moderation services apply "labels" to both posts and profiles. Your bluesky client will then read these labels and show/warn/hide these posts/profiles accordingly.
Note - your subscriptions are PRIVATE. (although the mod service might know, it's unclear)
2 1 15However, whereas with custom feeds where the team provided an API and an example template and said "go ham", this time they're open sourcing their internal moderation tooling, named "Ozone", which is a prebuild tool to run your own moderation service
1 3 16This means there should be very little technical impediment to running your own moderation service, beyond hosting it (and I'm sure community members will figure that out too)
3 15This info is all based on what Paul recently posted in the API Touchers discord - if you're interested in all the details of the technical side of things, I recommend you just read that instead!
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NOTE - while they are open sourcing Ozone, their internal tool, you don't necessarily have to use it! You can just use the API directly if you wanted to make custom tooling, and apply labels using whatever methodology that you like!
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reading the `labeling` PR, it looks like the current moderation content filters are moving to a bsky-provided labelling service (like old whats hot got phased out). you then have the ability to subscribe to 3rd-party ones, like feeds. can't wait!
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Samuel@samuel.fm· 14 Jan 2024ever since someone referred to me as “typos” on here I’ve been tempted to rebrand myself. should I?
ever since someone referred to me as “typos” on here I’ve been tempted to rebrand myself. should I?
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