I know the protocol itself is DOA but I really hope the rest of this shit hole crumbles soon. what a total waste

oh look it's the guy who took dark money and didn't disclose it

this God forsaken website suspending people for saying Kirk's death was good is yet another reason why this place will never replace Twitter. such a horrible vibe here as usual

shut up loser

is there real recourse for Mississippi users at this time? do we have any reasonably functional third party bsky appviews? I'm not sure how much the situation has changed since I last looked into everything

Schedules and Fares YouTube video by Caribou - Topic

youtu.be/MQs00gwxorE

for now, they bypass the protocol until the devs implement private stuff. so they work like any other centralised web app

it doesn't support private anything for any reason at this time

I mean if you can't properly resolve and verify a handle, you probably shouldn't be interacting with it as a safety thing. you can also probably rewrite the DID to be more friendly, like <plc id>.plc.directory

probably just pretend something to the front of the handle since it's most of the way there already. either some static thing like 'at' or the user's DID or something. would depend more on the use case tbh

am I using it right now?

I'm not entirely sure what the point is in soft blocking and why it would be used over regular blocking. surely some of these annoying people would eventually create a troll's appview that doesn't respect these records

which may be why it's all a bad idea

I assume they mean the relay?

support for private data is a prerequisite for on-protocol DMs, so who knows when that'll happen, but afaik it is planned

if you would like to become a sysadmin in exchange for purely theoretical benefits, then hosting a PDS is a great option

I will ask my grandma to verify my PGP keys then

Why

I don't see #2 as a viable path since the short form video space is already crowded with big players and it's going to be hard to make something substantially better than tiktok (which succeeds imo because their algorithm is so good)

feed algorithms have always been black boxes and selling points for social media apps so the assumption that people would provide good quality feeds for the network for no reason really never made sense to me. maybe monetisation needs to be better proven for protocol services?

yeah, afaik you can't filter the firehose. there are some tricks you can do for some optimization, like if you want to listen to a certain DID you could look up its PDS and listen to that event stream instead of a relay. I'm kind of surprised the relay doesn't have that functionality by now tbh

I'm not currently aware of any PoC for malicious Jetstream but I'm also not super in the loop lol

I'm sure there are ways to verify the data from Jetstream but imo once you start asking these questions, it makes more sense to consume & verify the binary firehose instead. then you don't need to worry as much about hammering PDSes hosted on pis, etc. and ideally libraries would make it easy

personally, I think a malicious PDS would be bad since it has full control over your identity & keys and also should act as a mitm for all on-protocol traffic. so it could modify/refuse incoming or outgoing posts, inject ads into feeds, lock you out of migrating, post or delete for you, etc

yeah, Jetstream provides an easier way to consume protocol events at the cost of stripping out all of the crypto stuff that allows the events to be self certifying. pretty much any untrusted server or any other way to interfere with those events can go undetected.

I have no problem paying for good quality software but I don't think there is any way I would pay a subscription fee for a social media app

no oauth support and I get to lose my streak? what a great deal

on the easily abused social network easily abusing the social network

for me and others I've heard/talked to: 1) bad default algo = hard to find what you like, 2) culture, and 3) no privacy

also I'm defining success as the network fully functioning in a usable manner without bsky llc, and I think the bluesky team has defined it that way themselves as well