Because the protocol doesn't support private data, Blacksky is launching a bunch of features in a centralized (Blacksky-only) way, including mutes and private posts.

@noracodes not sure, i think they might be implementing their own appview from scratch?

Agreed that local-only posts should migrate between PDSs. Bluesky says they're working on private data this year and depending what the implementation is that might support something like that. Rudy doesn't want to be in a situation where he has to wait for that so is going the appview route for now, will potentially migrate it later.

It is odd, an artifact of AT Proto basically being all-public, so anything non-public has to be tucked in somewhere. I'm skeptical as to how well they can shoehorn private data into it, and even if it's there at the protocol level it's not clear to me what the challenges will be to making it usable in practice.

@jdp23 Yeah, I believe it is mostly or entirely from-scratch.

@noracodes if it's like most of their other stuff it's in Rust so it makes it very hard to reuse Bluesky's stuf. Also Bluesky's muting isn't great, clearly room for improvement.

@noracodes not sure if you've tracked it but they are starting to be situations where people want to block everything on a PDS. Instance blocking, ATstance blocking ... potayto, potahto

@jdp23 I hadn't seen this, but it's not hard to believe.

@noracodes totally predictable! There's a lot they can learn from fedi both about what works and what could be improved but it's not clear how much that'll happen. Rudy's local-only posts are the only clear example I know of so far, that came from his discussions with Darius.

That said, my oh my the migration is a lot smoother there. It's not just the protocol level, PDSMoover and textite have very nice UIs where you basically give old account / new account, you can optionally add a rotation key for backups, etc. It really hlighlights how much progress could be made here -- Slurp is great, a big step forward, but still a long ways to go. Oh well.

@jdp23 I shan't beat this drum at you too much, but, they did have $30 million to do that with. I suspect things would be a lot better here if we had that kind of cash.

Hell, if I could go full time developing fedi software, I absolutely would.

@jdp23 @noracodes the good moving UIs over there are all third party so they haven't even spent any money on it, they're using volunteer labor

(but part of it is, really, that the protocol makes it quite easy)

@ricci @jdp23 That's the part I mean - as far as I know, nobody's funding work on the portable identity FEPs.

Because the protocol doesn't support private data, Blacksky is launching a bunch of features in a centralized (Blacksky-only) way, including mutes and private posts.

These are good features, and it's great that they're building them, but it frustrates me that Blacksky is constrained by the protocol from making them participate in any of the benefits of the ATProto system such as account portability.

#atproto #blacksky

@noracodes permissioned data is on Bluesky PBC's Q1 roadmap, per today's office hours stream. Private data that's shared directly between PDS and an App is relatively simple (that already exists with the preferences API, but I'd guess they'd make something more lexicon aware)

Bluesky is also getting drafts imminently: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/pull/4549 / https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/pull/9691

@jdp23 I shan't beat this drum at you too much, but, they did have $30 million to do that with. I suspect things would be a lot better here if we had that kind of cash.

Hell, if I could go full time developing fedi software, I absolutely would.

@jdp23 I shan't beat this drum at you too much, but, they did have $30 million to do that with. I suspect things would be a lot better here if we had that kind of cash.

Hell, if I could go full time developing fedi software, I absolutely would.

@noracodes not sure, i think they might be implementing their own appview from scratch?

Agreed that local-only posts should migrate between PDSs. Bluesky says they're working on private data this year and depending what the implementation is that might support something like that. Rudy doesn't want to be in a situation where he has to wait for that so is going the appview route for now, will potentially migrate it later.

It is odd, an artifact of AT Proto basically being all-public, so anything non-public has to be tucked in somewhere. I'm skeptical as to how well they can shoehorn private data into it, and even if it's there at the protocol level it's not clear to me what the challenges will be to making it usable in practice.

@jdp23 @noracodes I think I disagree about migrating local-only posts. I can think of a number of scenarios where that would violate people's expectations around "local-only" in potentially unsafe ways.

@noracodes @jdp23
Also, the specific task of rehoming data is borderline trivial when all of the documents are public, immutable, and self authenticating.

A fair point that it's eassier. I don't actually think it's trivial once you take different jurisdictions rules for illegal content, and different moderation policies, into account ... but currently nobody does so at least for now that's kind of a moot point.

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