it would be more of an atproto V2 or V3, realistically, and require dev community effort and research. not in scope for this initial team unfortunately, we brainstormed it and couldn’t get to a good solution - ThreadSky

jay.bsky.team • 702 days ago

it would be more of an atproto V2 or V3, realistically, and require dev community effort and research. not in scope for this initial team unfortunately, we brainstormed it and couldn’t get to a good solution

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taranasus.xyz•702 days ago

I'll just link this here for visibility. Potentially easy solution for private block lists. Let me know if it doesn't make sense and I'm happy to explain myself better https://bsky.app/profile/taranasus.xyz/post/3jui5pkrrmm2j

taranasus.xyz•702 days ago

Exercise in futility. If Blocklist was unreadable could easily check block status with second account.

For full privacy you want the reverse. Private account with whitelist rather than public account with blacklist

handle.invalid•702 days ago

I think the main point is in disallowing discovery, not if the blocked person can find out they specifically are blocked.

taranasus.xyz•702 days ago

Oh my bad my bad.

taranasus.xyz•702 days ago

Haven't looked into how blocks work yet so apologies, but assuming that right now it's just a list of did's stored on the account doing the blocking all you need to do is:

StrongHashingAlgorithm (did:of:blocker + did:of:blocked).

Now the list is unreadable and when the blocked tries to read...

taranasus.xyz•702 days ago

... the blocker's account, the server does the hashing again of the two did's and can check against the list, if the result is in the list, DENIED.

taranasus.xyz•702 days ago

The downside to this is your won't have a clearly visible list of who you blocked, but that could also be solved with a second list that can only be decripted by your account's password.

jay.bsky.team•702 days ago

blocks won’t be the only load-bearing moderation feature we’re adding though, so there will be ways to subscribe to lists that block people without showing you personally mean to block them

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/4-21-2023-atproto-developer-ecosystem