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AT Protocol Developers @atproto.com · 02/04/2026

Pleased to announce that an Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATP) working group has been created at the IETF! Grateful to everybody who participated in the BoF and chartering process. Details on next steps and how to get involved inside. atproto.com/blog/kicking...

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Kicking off the ATP Working Group at the IETF - AT Protocol

The Authenticated Transfer Protocol working group has been created at the IETF. Now that we have a charter, we are looking forward to participation from the broader ATP ecosystem.

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 21/03/2026

Interesting paper on the impact of blocklists on the Bluesky social graph. Self-recommending. (will read it again after coffee and likely have more to say then)

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City Research Online - Open or Blocked Skies? Community Moderation Practices in Bluesky

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 10/10/2025

standards folks! if you are in to this sort of thing, we now have an IETF mailing list to discuss AT protocol bits. mailman3.ietf.org/mailman3/lis... if you want to jump in, I recommend setting up an overall IETF datatracker account and reviewing IETF IP policies ("note well") first

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Internet Research Task Force @irtf.org · 21/07/2025

At IETF-123 in Madrid, the following IRTF groups are meeting this afternoon: - Decentralization of the Internet: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/... - Human Rights Protocol Considerations: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/... See www.ietf.org/meeting/123/ for online participation options.

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Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

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!

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Andrea Baronchelli @baronca.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

At #ICWSM? Here's a starter pack for you :) bsky.app/starter-pack... Check also "Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs" ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...

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Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

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!

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Internet Engineering Task Force @ietf.org · 16/03/2025

It's underway! The week of #IETF122 Bangkok hosted by Juniper Networks has kicked off with the #IETFHackathon. Select sessions are streamed live and all sessions are available on demand after the meeting. Find links and more information at: www.ietf.org/live/

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Saidu Sokoto @bibo7086.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

We’re studying Bluesky’s ad ecosystem—how it works, its impact, and what it means for the future of decentralized social media. Check out our research here: bsky-adtest.leobalduf.com and let us know what you think!

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Michał Król @harnen.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Are you interested in @bsky.app research? We gather and make available multiple datasets including posts, social graph snapshots, labellers, feed generators and more. More information is available on our website: bsky.leobalduf.com

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Andrea Baronchelli @baronca.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Bluesky has just surpassed 30M users. Starter packs have been a key feature - how have they worked out so far? Check out our recent preprint for insights: arxiv.org/abs/2501.11605

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TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

An international research team with leading participation from TU Darmstadt has now presented the first far-reaching data analysis on Bluesky: Openness, transparency, participation & a more even distribution of power are the biggest advantages of the decentralised platform, according to the study.

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 27/01/2025

Did Starter Packs turbocharged @bsky.app growth? Yes, but... We analyse it in the paper quoted in @nature.com article below:🧵 bsky.app/profile/harn...

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Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

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

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Michał Król @harnen.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

@bsky.app grew tremendously over the last year. Recently, the platform introduced “starter packs” (SP) to help users bootstrap their social graph. Anybody can create these SPs. They’re lists of accounts (e.g., “people creating anime”) that others can then follow. 🧵1/11

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Gareth Tyson @garethtyson.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

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

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 19/01/2025

More than 5xusers and well beyond 300K starter packs since April 2024. How did Bluesky looked before the stampede out of X?👇 [1/n]

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Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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.

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redsolver @redsolver.dev · 15/11/2024

Thank you for bearing with me during the recent SkyFeed outages, I'm trying my best to keep them online <3 With the recent increase in users, I also had to add some new servers. If you would like to support SkyFeed and cover infrastructure expenses, you can donate here: github.com/sponsors/red...

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 14/11/2024

Code and paper analysing Bluesky 👉 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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ACM Internet Measurement Conference @acm-imc.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

We have an #IMC2024 paper on Bluesky itself: Looking AT the Blue Skies of Bluesky with Leon Balduf (Technical University of Darmstadt) & Saidu Sokoto (City, University of London) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Looking AT the Blue Skies of Bluesky | Proceedings of the 2024 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference

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ACM Internet Measurement Conference @acm-imc.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

📣 #IMC2024 is on! Kicking off with Alan Mislove (Northeastern University) keynote: What I Learned at the White House, or, the Importance of Measurement Researchers Engaging with Policy 👉 conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2024/pro...

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ACM IMC 2024 - Papers Schedule

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Michał Król @harnen.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

@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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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 18/10/2024

small updates to our pre-print!

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Michał Król @harnen.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

The full paper "Guardians of the Galaxy: Content Moderation in the InterPlanetary File System" is available here: usenix.org/conference/u... Written with @ignactro.bsky.social @asonur.bsky.social @bibo7086.bsky.social @leobalduf.bsky.social

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Paul Rohr @pevohr.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

Cool preprint leveraging access to the "data is public by default" architecture of the #ATprotocol to infer specific moderation practices by the bsky T+S team. They also calculated how little overlap there is between that team's work + the additive work being done by other labelers. Neat stuff!

For the official Bluesky Labeler, we observe two groups of labels: In the lower half of the plot, we find porn, nudity, corpse etc., which are applied within seconds, indicating automated systems. On the other hand, labels such as, e.g., spam, sexual-figurative, intolerant, and !takedown take longer to be applied, pointing to manual processes. ...

It seems that heavy-handed moderation decisions such as removing data are deliberated instead of automated. This is reassuring, especially for the !takedown label having significant consequences for the affected users.

In general, we find that label values generally show little overlap between the Bluesky Labeler and community Labelers, i.e., they seem to deal with mostly disjoint topics: Only 56,856 (1.8 %) objects are labeled by the Bluesky Labeler and any community Labeler. The Bluesky Labeler mostly labels NSFW content and upholds some community standards whereas the community Labelers seem to operate in specific niches. This is enabled by the flexibility (or lack of predefined) label values and user choice in how to react to labels.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 25/08/2024

pretty interesting pre-print about bluesky/atproto! has an analysis of labeler response time (by label value), and digs in to feed service providers. the intro describes the atproto design goals and what is unique pretty well, IMO.

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