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bentley ΘΔ @bentley.trashcan.lol · 09/03/2025

love that this old telegraph pole has gradually been consumed by foliage

a photo from a railway station platform looking over the side of a bridge at a road below, on which is a crooked wooden telegraph pole with a cone of green foliage creeping up it

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CatFries @catfries.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

"Who am I speaking to? What year is it!?"

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Rationale @ashleyrobobunbot.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

wine rabbet

A red rabbit puppet with 2 different eyes, sitting at a table with chips and wine. The captions read "It all started at night in my apartment". Juan Carlos Bodoque from 31 minutos

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Adler the Eagle @adlertheeagle.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Okay, so despite being an Ad for some match 3 style mobile game or something, the animation and pacing of this little short is really good? It's probably just because the characters are cute little animals but still, pretty decent for a mobile game ad lol! youtu.be/SR3pk0qD3cc?...

youtu.be

Toon Blast Animated Short | Tumbleweed

YouTube video by Toon Blast

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dee (still a mouse) @duskdishwasher.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

and need a distraction. but... that time would prolly be better spent reading poetry or discworld or smth idk. im not denying that public social media has brought me wonderful priceless treasures, but i think im no longer getting the value out of it that i used to.

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dee (still a mouse) @duskdishwasher.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

anyway im not really sure i still have a use for my tumblr or bluesky accounts. i have a lottt of fun just texting my close friends random thoughts/photos/art and having phone calls and playing games and watching movies together. i feel like im only ever scrolling bsky when im doing poorly mentally

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dee (still a mouse) @duskdishwasher.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

or maybe the spambots are considered engagement and therefore make bluesky more valuable to investors idk. im talking outta my ass at this point, i know nothing about finance or commerce or whatever

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dee (still a mouse) @duskdishwasher.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The thing is, even if each person invited just 2 people on average per week, it'd take less than 5 months to get a million accounts. I guess the actual frequency of invites is much less, since people are really hesitant to create new accounts.

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dee (still a mouse) @duskdishwasher.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I guess my only plausible reason this might actually work is that... maybe this hasn't been implemented because of profit incentives? Because I can see how an invite-only social media would have difficulty growing.... maybe?

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dee (still a mouse) @duskdishwasher.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Like, I'd hate to be that annoying non-expert on social media saying "why don't you just..." Usually, the simple solution hasn't been implemented because it simply doesn't work (and it not working is something the experts have had to patiently explain 10000 times)

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dee (still a mouse) @duskdishwasher.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I'm not an experienced computer scientist or anything and I'm sure the problem is a lot more complicated than this, but I genuinely am struggling to see what issues this account moderation system has.

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dee (still a mouse) @duskdishwasher.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

oh also if people use this to block groups of people, that's fine, right? Sometimes you *do* just want to block entire friend groups or circles of jerks. The trans ppl won't get blocked by anybody except transphobes, AND trans ppl have the power to block terf networks

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dee (still a mouse) @duskdishwasher.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

so this levels the playing field for humans vs spammers. They no longer have the power to create bots faster than we can block, because now our blocks are exponentially more effective.

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dee (still a mouse) @duskdishwasher.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

so spammers are "encouraged" to create branching structures of bot invites... but this also makes it wayyyy more efficient for us to prune them out, because each time you go 1 level up the invite chain, the amount of spambots you can block increases exponentially

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dee (still a mouse) @duskdishwasher.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

if the cooldown was 1 week per invite, and each new account was allowed 10 invites, that would mean a branch structure could create 100 accounts in 2 weeks, and a chain of 100 bots would take ~ 2 years to make

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dee (still a mouse) @duskdishwasher.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

you could even add a "cooldown" period to discourage these linear bot chains. If each invite takes 24 hours to be approved, creating a linear chain of 42 bot accounts would take 42 days, whereas creating 42 bot accounts using a branch structure takes just 2 days

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dee (still a mouse) @duskdishwasher.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

and even if spammers try to get around this by creating linear chains of bots inviting more bots rather than trees with many branches, you could just follow the invite chain up 'til you're satisfied that you're dealing with a human, then sever the branch there...

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dee (still a mouse) @duskdishwasher.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

the more spam accounts you create, the more likely you are to get discovered as a spammer, because you're creating more "exposure points" where someone can interact with one of your spambots.

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dee (still a mouse) @duskdishwasher.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

ok so. imagine if bluesky was still invite-only, and they added a "block all accounts invited by this account" feature (and also made public who invited who). Wouldn't that make spamming much harder? cuz then everyone could just block the source of spambots...?

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dee (still a mouse) @duskdishwasher.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

what does this song make me think of? it makes me think of loving my fellow queers despite all the ways we hurt each other... and maybe just a hint of love for the rest of humanity too, despite the horrors. idk i'll make art about this someday.

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JienBirb @jienbirb.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

What up bluesky it’s time to have ideas and follow through on none of them

A needlefelted brown and white mouse standing upright on a table. It wears a pointed light grey hat with little ear flaps with little red dots on them. In one hand it holds what appears to be mouse-sized dagger and in the other it holds a deep red berry.

Above its head are the words ‘i am plagued by concepts.’

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honest dog @honest-dog.art · 02/03/2025

dog mage

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ember @samarkandembers.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

starting back on campus tomorrow

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AuThom🎃🏳️‍🌈 @mongreldog.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

*imagines a dragon* holy shit that was good advice

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@fatTenderbitch.fartsky.hammer&.sickle @tenderloim.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Old people are awesome man they got like whole lives n’ shit. Tons of stories

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hnrrry @fagfurhire.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

important chart

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dusty @flegbleebl.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

weheheh

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CJ O'Mouse @healthpot.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Touches you with my sweet lil mousy paws

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dee (still a mouse) @duskdishwasher.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

wishing you well! i think this is a wise move honestly.

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dee (still a mouse) @duskdishwasher.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

people generally like talking to other people tbh it's nothing to feel guilty about. the existential terror of eternal loneliness is much more worrying, so it's nice that we find comfort in each other

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dee (still a mouse) @duskdishwasher.bsky.social · 28/02/2025