Our university posted about our recent work on Bluesky :)

TU Darmstadt@tuda.bsky.social · last yr.

„Starter Packs“ – von Bluesky-Nutzenden zusammengestellte Listen bestehender User, denen man mit einem Klick folgen kann – haben maßgeblich dazu beigetragen, dass die Plattform Bluesky auf mehr als 30 Millionen Mitglieder angewachsen ist. Das zeigt eine neue Studie der TU: shorturl.at/Zm6it

I finally managed to go through all the follows and messages about the #ICWSM starter pack. The first SP is full (wow!), I've added more people I've missed the first time around, and the amazing people I've met at the conference to a second one: go.bsky.app/2EFgnJV Let me know who I missed, again!

@gianluca99.bsky.social just presented their work on how Perspective API is biased towards classifying German content as toxic, and this came to mind. #ICWSM

I've noticed a few things about Copenhagen: Aalborg University has a bridge, our university does not. Pretty cool.

I'll be at #ICWSM 2025 next week to present our paper about Bluesky Starter Packs. For the occasion, I've created a Starter Pack with all the organizers, speakers, and authors of this year I could find on Bluesky! Link: go.bsky.app/GDkQ3y7 Let me know if I missed anyone!

This is a test post containing !ping

What do people embed in their Bluesky posts? All sorts of things!

@gork.bluesky.bot how do you work?

That's our paper, nice :) @asonur.bsky.social @harnen.bsky.social @bibo7086.bsky.social @garethtyson.bsky.social @ignactro.bsky.social @baronca.bsky.social

Laurens@laurenshof.online · last yr.

Bluesky Report - this week's news: - custom feed builder @graze.social raises 1M USD - Deer Social is a fork of the official Bluesky app, giving people the option to use the app with various features turned off - a paper on the large impact of Starter Packs fediversereport.com/bluesky-repo...

🚨 Deadline Alert! 🌐 Internet Measurement community— IMC25 cycle 2 is almost here 🚀 📝 Paper deadline: May 15 🗓️ Registration closes: May 8 🔗 conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2025/ Share your work—spread the word & RT! 🔄✨

Upcoming events on local-first: • Local-first Conf Berlin, Germany, 26–28 May www.localfirstconf.com – for industry folks • Workshop on Theory and Practice of Decentralized and Local-First Software, Bergen, Norway, 3 July 2025.ecoop.org/home/plf-pla... – for academics (industry crossover welcome)

@etitdarmstadt.bsky.social es wäre ziemlich cool, wenn Ihr als handle @etit.tu-darmstadt.de hättet, so wie z.B. @emergencity.de ! Ich kann euch gerne beraten, ich hab da ein paper drüber geschrieben :)

Great news for Bandcamp Pro or label account users! You can now link your Bandcamp subdomain to your Bluesky handle. This integration helps strengthen your online presence and makes it easier for fans to find you and your music. Here’s how to do it:

Apropos of nothing; ❤️ @bsky.app 📈 but it's incredibly US centric still, see Top 500 list: vqv.app A few European starter packs: European Union Politics: go.bsky.app/Bg7sPSp European Think tanks: go.bsky.app/8Ra8RjU EU/UK tech policy: go.bsky.app/TJ2xTce Digital democracy: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Creating a builder pattern with mandatory fields in a way that build() fails at runtime? 🤢

This is what it looks like when Bluesky adds five fresh PDSes to take on new users. I thought something broke on my end, but nope, all good :)

Unsere neue Studie zu #bsky Starter Packs wurde von Forschung & Lehre aufgegriffen, sehr cool! www.forschung-und-lehre.de/karriere/was...

Was kommt nach "X" in der Kommunikation?

Nicht nur Wissenschaftsorganisationen und Hochschulen kehren der Plattform "X" den Rücken zu. Warum und wie Forschende aktuell zu "Bluesky" wechseln.

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Oh hey, our most recent work on @bsky.app was cited by Nature! :o

Nature@nature.com · 2y ago

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

If you're curious about the growth of @bsky.app, a few of us published a paper using April'24 data. Since, all stats have gone through the roof... arxiv.org/pdf/2408.12449

I'm running a mirror of plc.directory here: plc-mirror.bsky.leobalduf.com. No ratelimits (for now), no SLA, and only supports DID lookups (no exports, audit logs, etc). This uses github.com/bsky-watch/p..., which works by collecting and replaying PLC operations. 33 GB Postgres database, pretty nice.

The real limiting factor on backfill is your own network and the max number of users per PDS. We fill PDSs to at most ~500k users so at 5 repos/sec it will take at most ~30 hours to sync a PDS. You can parallelize that across all Bsky-operated PDSs and crawl the whole network in 30 hours.

To add some numbers: now 1.14% of handles are not bsky.social (almost identical % to April with 5M users). On the top of the alternatives are brid.gy, swifties.social, woke.cat 😅 -- @leobalduf.bsky.social on the numbers!

if you have a @github.com profile, can i ask you to update it with your @bsky.app handle? 🙏 👉 it enables some very cool integrations, like auto curated feeds and starter packs for contributors and tech

@ipfs.tech is the largest decentralized file storage. In our recent Usenix Security paper, we answer questions about content uploaded by users: 1) What kinds of “problematic” content is uploaded to @ipfs.tech? 2) How is this content moderated? 3) How effective moderation is? 🧵 1/7

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