Re: Re: Bluesky and Decentralization

Decomposing the Bluesky appview and self-hosting the pieces

This weekly Alternative Social Media update -- the first of 2025! -- is about getting caught back up with some things that have happened in the past month. First up, I'll relate the latest changes at Meta to a specific interest of mine, Threads's fediverse blocklist. Then, I'll point you to a very fascinating back-and-forth discussion about Bluesky's ATProto and ActivityPub (as well as OCapN). Finally, I'll let you know the latest in ActivityPub Trust and Safety.

I started writing this post in October, when Mozilla announced that it's going to become an adtech company. I got distracted by the professoring business, an...

Fediverse as a tool for communities and community organizers.

details on how I built a bluesky feed generator, complete with managing real-time events off the firehose and performing ML classification tasks, using Go and Python.