Pleased to announce that an Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATP) working group has been created at the IETF!
Grateful to everybody who participated in the BoF and chartering process. Details on next steps and how to get involved inside.
atproto.com/blog/kicking...
Thanks! This is actually our paper, together with @leobalduf.bsky.social , @harnen.bsky.social, @asonur.bsky.social , @ignactro.eurosky.social , @baronca.bsky.social and @garethtyson.bsky.social . Glad you found it interesting. I’d be happy to hear your thoughts.
Interesting paper on the impact of blocklists on the Bluesky social graph. Self-recommending.
(will read it again after coffee and likely have more to say then)
standards folks!
if you are in to this sort of thing, we now have an IETF mailing list to discuss AT protocol bits.
mailman3.ietf.org/mailman3/lis...
if you want to jump in, I recommend setting up an overall IETF datatracker account and reviewing IETF IP policies ("note well") first
At IETF-123 in Madrid, the following IRTF groups are meeting this afternoon:
- Decentralization of the Internet: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/...
- Human Rights Protocol Considerations: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/...
See www.ietf.org/meeting/123/ for online participation options.
I finally managed to go through all the follows and messages about the #ICWSM starter pack.
The first SP is full (wow!), I've added more people I've missed the first time around, and the amazing people I've met at the conference to a second one:
go.bsky.app/2EFgnJV
Let me know who I missed, again!
At #ICWSM? Here's a starter pack for you :)
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Check also "Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs" ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
That's our paper, nice :) @asonur.bsky.social @harnen.bsky.social @bibo7086.bsky.social @garethtyson.bsky.social @ignactro.bsky.social @baronca.bsky.social
I'll be at #ICWSM 2025 next week to present our paper about Bluesky Starter Packs.
For the occasion, I've created a Starter Pack with all the organizers, speakers, and authors of this year I could find on Bluesky!
Link: go.bsky.app/GDkQ3y7
Let me know if I missed anyone!
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
It's underway! The week of #IETF122 Bangkok hosted by Juniper Networks has kicked off with the #IETFHackathon. Select sessions are streamed live and all sessions are available on demand after the meeting. Find links and more information at: www.ietf.org/live/
We’re studying Bluesky’s ad ecosystem—how it works, its impact, and what it means for the future of decentralized social media. Check out our research here: bsky-adtest.leobalduf.com and let us know what you think!
Are you interested in @bsky.app research? We gather and make available multiple datasets including posts, social graph snapshots, labellers, feed generators and more. More information is available on our website: bsky.leobalduf.com
Bluesky has just surpassed 30M users. Starter packs have been a key feature - how have they worked out so far?
Check out our recent preprint for insights: arxiv.org/abs/2501.11605
An international research team with leading participation from TU Darmstadt has now presented the first far-reaching data analysis on Bluesky: Openness, transparency, participation & a more even distribution of power are the biggest advantages of the decentralised platform, according to the study.
Did Starter Packs turbocharged @bsky.app growth? Yes, but... We analyse it in the paper quoted in @nature.com article below:🧵 bsky.app/profile/harn...
Oh hey, our most recent work on @bsky.app was cited by Nature! :o
@bsky.app grew tremendously over the last year. Recently, the platform introduced “starter packs” (SP) to help users bootstrap their social graph. Anybody can create these SPs. They’re lists of accounts (e.g., “people creating anime”) that others can then follow.
🧵1/11
If you're curious about the growth of @bsky.app, a few of us published a paper using April'24 data. Since, all stats have gone through the roof... arxiv.org/pdf/2408.12449
More than 5xusers and well beyond 300K starter packs since April 2024. How did Bluesky looked before the stampede out of X?👇 [1/n]
If you're doing Mastodon research, you might wanna check @harisbinzia.bsky.social useful tool for Fediverse data collection: github.com/harisbinzia/...
I'm running a mirror of plc.directory here: plc-mirror.bsky.leobalduf.com. No ratelimits (for now), no SLA, and only supports DID lookups (no exports, audit logs, etc).
This uses github.com/bsky-watch/p..., which works by collecting and replaying PLC operations. 33 GB Postgres database, pretty nice.
Thank you for bearing with me during the recent SkyFeed outages, I'm trying my best to keep them online <3
With the recent increase in users, I also had to add some new servers. If you would like to support SkyFeed and cover infrastructure expenses, you can donate here: github.com/sponsors/red...
Code and paper analysing Bluesky 👉 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
We have an #IMC2024 paper on Bluesky itself: Looking AT the Blue Skies of Bluesky with Leon Balduf (Technical University of Darmstadt) & Saidu Sokoto (City, University of London) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
📣 #IMC2024 is on! Kicking off with Alan Mislove (Northeastern University) keynote: What I Learned at the White House, or, the Importance of Measurement Researchers Engaging with Policy 👉 conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2024/pro...
@ipfs.tech is the largest decentralized file storage. In our recent Usenix Security paper, we answer questions about content uploaded by users:
1) What kinds of “problematic” content is uploaded to @ipfs.tech?
2) How is this content moderated?
3) How effective moderation is?
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small updates to our pre-print!
The full paper "Guardians of the Galaxy: Content Moderation in the InterPlanetary File System" is available here: usenix.org/conference/u...
Written with @ignactro.bsky.social @asonur.bsky.social @bibo7086.bsky.social @leobalduf.bsky.social
Cool preprint leveraging access to the "data is public by default" architecture of the #ATprotocol to infer specific moderation practices by the bsky T+S team.
They also calculated how little overlap there is between that team's work + the additive work being done by other labelers. Neat stuff!