ericmwalker.bsky.social
Web developer and Rust fan. Reddit addict. đź“ŤColorado, US.
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Feels like a metaphor.
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They seem to be imitating one another. Maybe a very basic form of intersubjective learning?
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I enjoyed the arguments in this piece, which provides a different perspective on the question of social media's affect on attention. But I wish it looked more closely at the biological and physiological affects of social media on children and adolescents, whose brains are still developing.
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I am not able to see the trending feature in my account. I might have accidentally dismissed it by clicking the "x". Is there a way to get it back?
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Yeah. Happens to me as well. With the benefit of hindsight, would have been better for Gmail to not normalize “.” out of the email name.
Companies that just accept form input with an unverified email address will have their messages marked as spam.
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I switched from MacOS to Linux about five years ago. Linux has some rough edges, but it's actually pretty nice after a while.
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Maybe 1992 or 1993, as a high school student, working with one of these at home? Really hard to remember for sure. The transition to CD-ROMs was pretty fast.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macinto...
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Since I put those lists together, I started keeping a list of people with moderation lists, so that people can see what all is out there.
bsky.app/profile/eric...
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Looks like Banff, Alberta, for anyone like me who was wondering.
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Done.
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Added.
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Done.
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When it comes to USB, sometimes I get it wrong 75 percent of the time, somehow.
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There are some labelers that attempt this. You can subscribe to them. There are also a number of blocklists if blocking individual accounts feels overwhelming.
www.bluesky-labelers.io
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I've been keeping a list of people who maintain moderation lists. Take care to due some due diligence, as different maintainers will have different thresholds and criteria.
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2/2. requiring everyone to subscribe to multiple blocklists. But if that habit takes hold, bad actors can inject bad blocklists into the mix. I think group-maintained blocklists, in contrast to personal blocklists, might deal with this concern.
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1/2. I'm nervous about blocklists, even though I maintain several (if only for my own use). But the thing that makes me nervous once the nation states take notice is that one person's efforts will be a drop in the bucket. Even maintainers will need to subscribe. But that will leave gaps, ...
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I don't know much about Threads. Can you elaborate?
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I don't think the blocks are transitive (if you add someone to a blocklist, all of their followers/people they interact with, are blocked).
If anything, personal blocklists will not scale adequately to handle the number of bots and trolls that will arrive when the nation state teams get involved.
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Also, "liberal" is relative, and its meaning, even in the US, is changing quickly, and tech workers fall on a large spectrum, as the Overton window gets wider.
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Yes, judgment is always needed. When there's a question of whether to block, it's good to go through a person's posts and replies to see if they're just having a bad morning, or if there's regularly a bit of animus in their replies.
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Good faith is a requirement, but not enough. In addition to bad faith trolling, there's also people with good intentions who launch off on attacks, inadvertently distracting attention from the issues being discussed. Politeness is also a requirement.
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I follow some of this. But I'm one of the newer people to Bluesky, so I'm curious why preemptively pruning followers is preferable to dealing with them when you see their inflammatory posts? At 100 followers, pruning is feasible. At 1m followers, doesn't seem possible.
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Yup. Indistinguishable from Twitter. Some people are reasonably reluctant to use blocklists (I'm one of them, even though I maintain some). But for many new people they'll no doubt keep Bluesky sane until the Bluesky team figures out its medium term strategy.
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Still learning about Bluesky's features, but I'm thinking you can probably construct a feed or userlist to accomplish this.
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Twitter was cool during the Arab Spring. And it was a great place to go for information about a fire burning in the area near your house. But it’s been overrun by trolls and bots for a decade (even before Musk turned it into a propaganda outlet).
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And for people who are new, there are blocklists that you can subscribe to if blocking accounts on your own feels like boiling the ocean.
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I've collected a list of people maintaining blocklists that people can subscribe to (kind of meta). Click "About," and then on each person's profile, click "Lists."
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Another two are shrinkflation and planned obsolescence.
www.reddit.com/r/shrinkflat...
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I've put together a list of people I've seen mentioned. Go to "About," and then for each user click on "Lists" to see the available options. Keep in mind that different people have different criteria for blocking (perhaps not ones you agree with).
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This is what I get for working in Ruby. But I would *like* to work in Rust one day.
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There's straight up blocking (or muting), and then there's subscribing to block lists. For block lists, look at a the "Lists" section of a person's profile. Some users are curating lists with different criteria. There are labelers, which are interesting, but might not be up to the task right now.
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Click on "Lists" on my profile. I block easily, but I've been trying to keep the different criteria separate for different levels of fortitude.
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For those without the fortitude to boil the ocean, there are also blocklists out there that you can subscribe to. But do a little due diligence first, as different people will have different thresholds for blocking.
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It's starting to feel like boiling the ocean. For people who are new here, know that there are block lists that you can subscribe to. Definitely not perfect, but hopefully good enough for the moment.
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There's also block lists that you can subscribe to, since blocking on one's own is kind of like boiling the ocean now.
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Block lists are your friend. Not perfect, but hopefully they'll hold the line for a while until Bluesky sorts itself out.
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Another approach that has worked for me is to go to the profile of person you’re wanting to block by clicking on their name. Then you’ll see another “…” button. If you click on that button, you will hopefully see a “Block’ option.
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True. Many feel that way. I think they're mistaken. But sometimes when someone says something doesn't fit one's narrative, what they're really saying is that we should countenance immature behavior, which ends up distracting from the core issues. Which we shouldn't.
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Honest debate/discussion is worlds apart from trolling, bad-faith engagement. The latter makes the search for truth infinitely harder.
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Even better. There's mass block lists that you can subscribe to. Not foolproof, but hopefully they'll keep things going until Bluesky figures out the longer-term approach.
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I'm curious what the time span is.
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On the message/tweet, there's a "..." button. You can click on the button and then select "Block account".
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It seems to have been all assets, unfortunately ,including, apparently, JS. Whatever it was, it was basically an outage.
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Look into labeling. There is a way to label content as "politics" and block it. (Personally, I like to keep tabs on it.)
www.bluesky-labelers.io
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That seems to be an open question. There are personal moderation lists that people can subscribe to in the meantime. There are also labelers, which I know less about.
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Already seeing some comment threads here that look like Twitter. Hoping that Bluesky has a strategy.
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There’s a cool Bluesky feature where you can subscribe to people’s block lists. Not foolproof, but hopefully it will buy some time while Bluesky sorts out a longer term strategy.
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How to deal with the influx of trolls? Some threads are currently indistinguishable from Twitter. Also, different people will have different preferences. I would like Hacker News levels of moderation. Others like a rambunctious discussion.