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   Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 09:58:49 JST Steve's Place

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   @TheJen @kimlockhartga There are spores out to get you in desert environments. Someone I knew from HS contracted Valley Fever. His father, an archeologist, also. The son survived his bout. His father passed away. It also became an issue in Los Angeles after the Northridge quake kicked up a lot of desert dust.

   I hope you feel better soon.

   In case this might be what's bothering you:

   https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/DISEASESCONDITIONS/DISEASESAZ/Pages/valley-fever.aspx

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   Laurens Hof (laurenshof@fediversereport.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 09:26:21 JST Laurens Hof

   Last Week in the ATmosphere – 2025feb.d

   Welcome to the bi-weekly tech-focused update on everything that is happening on Bluesky and the wider ATmosphere. The theme continues to be: “can ATProto scale down“? Next week will be focused again on Bluesky and it’s surrounding ecosystem of media apps.

   The News

   Constellation is a project that recently released that provides a database of all backlinks in the entire network. Constellation now has a database of over 1.2 billion links, and an accompanying website with statistics to slice through. The Constellation API is now also getting integrated into multiple PDS browsers, both PDSls and atp.tools show backlinks to the ATProto records now. This puts PDS browsers more into their own specific place on the network: not a full AppView, but more than just a way to view the content of a PDS.

   Bluesky PBC has put out a new proposal for ATProto, Sync 1.1. The proposed update concerns the relays, and the validation work they do. As part of the Authenticated Transfer, which ATProto is named after, relays validate every event on the firehose. This validation process currently requires a relay to store the entire repo, which can take up a lot of space. This is one of the aspects that make hosting a relay more expensive. The proposed update changes the way validation works, which allows a relay to validate the integrity of all the data going through the firehose without having to store the entire repo. Bluesky engineer Devin Ivy provides an explainer thread on how this works here. This update makes it much more feasible for people to self-host relays.

   Another proposal by Bluesky PBC is for moderation routing report. The new feature allows labelers to select which type of report they want to receive. A common problem that labelers currently face is that users tend to receive reports that are not relevant for their specific labeling service, which causes them unnecessary extra work, as well as getting unnecessarily exposed to awful content. The new proposed update allows labelers to opt-out of specific reporting categories. Bluesky engineer Bryan Newbold says Bluesky PBC is currently working on implementing the feature, aiming to ship it soon.

   In Other News

   Bluesky has posted some new job vacancies, and they are now hiring a System Integrity Engineer, Product Designer and Senior Trust and Safety Lead. Both the System Integrity Engineer and Trust and Safety Lead indicate that Bluesky is expanding their Trust and Safety work: both of these jobs are newly created positions, with the engineering position explicitly focused on moderation systems and regulatory compliance.

   Some podcasting news: two podcasting apps, Transistor and TrueFans, both added support for displaying Bluesky comments on the podcast episode page. TrueFans also supports fediverse comments, so that a podcast episode page can display comments and reactions from both networks.

   Bluesky engineer Jaz wrote an article about ‘lossy’ timelines. The summary is that to maintain performance, the home timelines of accounts that follow more than 4k accounts will not always see all posts on the timeline.

   Upcoming ATProto short-form video platform Spark shared their outline on some of the limits they’ll set. Spark aims to allow videos of 300 MB or 3 minutes long (compared to Bluesky’s 50MB or 1 minute), and 12 files for image posts (5MB each). This is part of the reason why Spark is not using Bluesky’s lexicon, instead developing their own. Setting these limits higher will also require Sparks to provide their own PDSes, as the file size limit is set by the Bluesky PDS. Hosting video is expensive, and it is not yet clear how Spark will finance this.

   A short tutorial on how to publish lexicon verification. The first verified lexicons are now starting to show up on lexidex.

   Roomy has posted a deep dive on their tech stack, how they are combining ATProto and Automerge to build public chatrooms.

   Web browser Opera adds Bluesky integration, allowing you to more easily doom scroll in the sidebar of the browser.

   Bluesky video client Skylight is now available in beta on Android, after Skylight had trouble with Google to get the Android beta approved.

   Some events: Feed builder Graze will hold a meetup in New York this Friday the 28th, and at SXSW (March 10th, Austin) there will be Bluesky meetup.

   The Links

   • An interview with Game Industry Labeler developer Trazy on how builds a community of thousands of game devopers on Bluesky.
   • A guide (in Japanese) on how to upload videos using Bluesky API (XRPC)
   • An interview with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber at Knight Media Forum.
   • A podcast interview with the developer of the ATProto art platform Pinksea

   That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! If you want more analysis, you can subscribe to my newsletter. Every week you get an update with all the articles of this week, as well as extra analysis not published anywhere else. You can subscribe below, and follow this blog @fediversereport.com and my personal account @laurenshof.online on Bluesky.

   #bluesky

   https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-the-atmosphere-2025feb-d/

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   CelloMom On Cars (cellomomoncars@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 02:16:37 JST CelloMom On Cars

   Americans together owe $ 1.13 trillion to credit card companies.
   That's just credit cards. Doesn't include car loans, or mortgages. And doesn't show signs of slowing down anytime soon.

   In the chart below you can see the latest rise starting in early 2021. That's after the start of the covid pandemic when more of us became enamoured of that "contactless" payment option.

   https://time.com/6957322/why-credit-card-debt-is-high/

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   Newsmast Foundation (newsmast@newsmast.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 21:19:31 JST Newsmast Foundation

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   Newsmast Version III is one app and two servers combined.

   It’s our latest release, out now on the App Store and Google Play, with desktop and PWA versions to follow soon.

   In a first for the Fediverse, we’re seamlessly integrating content from your home server with Newsmast’s hand-curated Communities. It’s all hosted on our customised Mastodon instance, newsmast.social.

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   AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 07:01:32 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

   in reply to

   You want to get to the end part, right now, and I'm just telling you that after a couple hundred years of capitalist propaganda that has created the conditions necessary for the rise of a fascist hellworld where boiling your children like soup is seen as preferable to ending capitalism, that probably isn't happening any time soon.

   In the meantime, politically empowered nazis are in fact fixing to kill anyone who understands what you and I already know.

   Hence "stop fascism."

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   alks (alks@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 03:18:22 JST alks

   We are approaching the second anniversary of the russian empire’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of dead have been sacrificed to the idea of a “russian world” trying to restore Moscow’s military and political power in Eastern Europe. Hopes for Russia’s imminent defeat and the collapse of the empire are now rare among activists both in Ukraine itself and in other parts of the world. On the one hand Putin’s economic and political allies have aided the Kremlin’s war machine in keeping the war going. On the other hand, growing calls for a ceasefire from all sides (including from left-wing perspectives), have only increased pressure on political elites interested in Russia’s defeat in Ukraine, and thus undermined further military support for Ukrainians from the West in resisting the invasion.

   This year we have clearly seen that neither Western countries nor the russian liberal opposition are interested in the collapse of the russian empire. The risks associated with such a scenario outweigh any possibility of ending the war and freeing both Russians themselves and people in Russian-occupied territories. Obviously, there is also a need for a new revolutionary movement inside Russia, capable of breaking the political power of Moscow and rekindling the ideas of freedom and equality in the hearts of the ordinary population.

   We do not expect the war in Ukraine to end in 2024. And even in the event of a truce between the Ukrainian state and the russian empire, we know that the war in the region will continue for a long time. The machine of imperial militarism that has been started will not be stopped anytime soon.

   In this atmosphere, we believe it is critical to continue to support our comrades in Ukraine who are resisting russian imperialism with weapons or volunteer work. We call on all anarchists who consider the collapse of empires an important factor in the revolutionary struggle to join the February 24 demonstrations in your region and express group solidarity not only with anarchists, but all those who have taken up arms to fight for freedom and equality against the Kremlin dictatorship. To express solidarity not with the Ukrainian state, but with the peoples of Ukraine who have shown in deed what resistance means. And can there be a better flag for such solidarity than the black flag?

   See you on the streets of Berlin, Warsaw and other cities!

   https://pramen.io/en/2024/01/call-for-anarchist-participation-in-the-february-24-demonstrations-en-pl/