Samuel
@samuel.fm
made a labeller for backdated posts @backdate.mozzius.dev helps spot posts that show up on the firehose at a different time than when they claim to be created. sometimes it's archival posts, or sometimes it's someone trying to be sneaky. this labeller helps spot them!
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Samuel
lemme know if it's working correctly - there's a good chance I've messed up timezones or something like that 😅
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rahaeli
ObXKCD xkcd.com/2867/ (I wanted to embed this in my latest declaration against the terrible social media bills sweeping the country because the latest law includes a "parents must be able to specify lockout times for their kids' accounts" clause, but alas judges have no sense of humor)
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Samuel
it's won't backfill, since it can only tell if a post has been backdated by comparing the time it appears on the firehose to the claimed time. nothing I can do about already created posts
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Samuel
I'll consider it, this is really more intended as a moderation tool to catch people being sneaky with post dates rather than a vanity label
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The Doctor (Commissions open)
yeah, i figured -- and my idea wasn't as much vanity label in this case, as much as just a way for people to clearly see it. but i guess in my case I put the account name in a way it shouldn't matter at all.
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Emily Hunt
Any chance it could be an official label that's automatically on anything with a date older than when Bluesky was created? I can imagine a universe a few years from now where people dig up 'old' posts without even realising that Bluesky isn't nearly that old. Would be a small client addition
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Samuel
hmm, wouldn't be unreasonable to backfill the labeller in theory but scraping the whole network is a big job beyond the scope of the labeller I'd rather avoid client-added labels, but that might be easier
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Natanael, Tech janitor
You could spot check the oldest timestamps on repos, skip those whose oldest timestamp is not backdated and then traverse those where it is
Lukemas 🎅🎄
I noticed whilst sipping on the firehose this week there are so many forward dated posts as well. Some well into the future.
ALT: fry from futurama says very interesting in front of a blue background
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Signez · Stan Signoud
Loved that, but honestly I feel that it should be something that should be somehow handled by the core functionality of relays (or would that be AppViews)? I'd prefer a "first seen on the network at {indexed_at}" text below the post 😅 (as soon as the "drift" is more than a few seconds, of course)
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milo
Would it be possible to add this labeller by default? I feel like it's a vital tool against misinformation that could help keep this platform sane
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Benedict Garman
this is awesome. Thanks. Can you explain a bit more how and why this might happen? Like, what are some specific examples of reasons a post is mis-timestamped? Or point me to resources that would explain. Cheers, appreciate it
Konstantin
Wait, how does it work? I start following it and it will label posts in my timelines? I really should read the docs at some point 🙈.