iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Our university posted about our recent work on Bluesky :)

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!

182

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

@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

2130

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

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

A bridge connecting two buildings across a waterway.

The entrance to the bridge from one building.

130

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!

63013

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

This is a test post containing !ping

120

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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

A table of types of embedded content in Bluesky posts and their counts. The table contains 70 rows, with many obviously invalid entries.

010

Reposted by Leo Balduf

ACM Internet Measurement Conference @acm-imc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

🚨 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! 🔄✨

conferences.sigcomm.org

ACM IMC 2025

033

Reposted by Leo Balduf

Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 08/04/2025

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)

localfirstconf.com

Local-First Conf 2025

Join us for the second edition of Local-First Conf. Connect with a rapidly-growing community in an intimate setting. Berlin 27th - 28th May 2025.

35719

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

@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 :)

100

Reposted by Leo Balduf

Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 17/03/2025

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:

bit.ly

How do I use my Bandcamp subdomain as my Bluesky handle?

Using your Bandcamp subdomain as your Bluesky handle lets your Bluesky followers know it’s really you. For example, instead of your handle being @example.bsky.social, your handle will be @example.b...

16768210

Reposted by Leo Balduf

Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

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...

vqv.app

Top 500 Bluesky Users

Explore the top 500 most followed users on Bluesky

75739

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

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

010

Leo Balduf @leobalduf.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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 :)

Time series of new repositories discovered per PDS host over time. The left-hand side shows many PDSes with a few accounts, the right hand side shows five PDSes taking over the load.

040

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

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

084

Reposted by Leo Balduf

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

1154

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.

2124

Reposted by Leo Balduf

Jaz @jaz.sh · 22/11/2024

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.

3224

Reposted by Leo Balduf

Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 23/11/2024

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!

021

Reposted by Leo Balduf

danielroe @danielroe.dev · 23/11/2024

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

83995207

Reposted by Leo Balduf

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

1154