Samuel
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!
a post claiming to be from 2006 31 155 433
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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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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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
@samuel.fm
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