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Scoiattolo

@offline.mountainherder.xyz

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Sr. Tech PM and Product Owner building tools and distributed research networks; Occasional Data Witch; 🚴🏻🏃🏻⛷️📷 #RStats; Former goatherd & Data Ethics @HHI_Signal. @skywatch.blue

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · May 13

It's not the world's most elegant code (I taught myself TS this winter to do it), but as a general reminder: I have open sourced the code that we use for Skywatch automation, for anyone interested in monitoring the firehose and labeling based on rulesets.

GitHub - skywatch-bsky/skywatch-automod: This is the public release of some of our internal tooling.

This is the public release of some of our internal tooling. - skywatch-bsky/skywatch-automod

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 3h

direct deposits hitting the checking accounts of active duty servicemen means article 1 of the constitution is basically a dead letter as of tonight, huh

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 5h

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 5h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4h

i think the Discover feed itself needs a big overhaul, and i’m not sure this really addresses what’s wrong with it. even if you don’t use Discover, unwelcome replies come to you because you end up on Discover

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 5h

legit lol

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 5h

So how much time does Darrin have?

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 5h

Thank you!

Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 5h

You folks wouldn't believe some of the horrors that moderators have to see.

Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 5h

What’s wrong with vegan sausages?

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 5h

I mean, I think that's not a bad way to do it. I'm mostly trying to figure out how to do it at scale so I can provide that as a service to the labeler subscribers :)

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 6h

Are there many examples of labellers labelling posts based on content? (Keywords, links, images, etc)

I feel like there are but my searches aren't returning many good results; Ideally looking for typescript projects.

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 5h

She was not the median user, as it were, running a labeler to keep her feed clean.

Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 5h

So the problem is, to pick on your example a little, is that I do like politics and don't want it out of my feed, but I don't want it to be blue-wave slop. I want it to be high quality discussion.

Maybe I'm not the median user, but this will need nuance to be effective.

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 5h

Thinking about bluesky if I could take a six month sabbatical from work.

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Darrin Loeliger @darrin.bsky.team · 6h

We're considering a feature that would let you specify topics you're not interested in, in addition to your existing interests. This would influence the content shown on your Discover feed and the accounts recommended in Explore. What do we think?

Screenshot of the settings page where you can choose topics you are and are not interested in.

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 5h

I do and I should!

Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 5h

Ty!

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 5h

So the code is here, but the actual regexp we use is in a private repo. I'm happy to give you access to that.

I will caveat this with the fact that I had to teach myself TS to do this (it was originally in bash) so it's maybe not the best TS.

GitHub - skywatch-bsky/skywatch-automod: Skywatch Automod is the public release of automoderation software used by skywatch.blue on the Bluesky Network

Skywatch Automod is the public release of automoderation software used by skywatch.blue on the Bluesky Network - skywatch-bsky/skywatch-automod

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 5h

We use some, but I don't always know what is the most current, so if you're willing to share I'm happy to look into them!

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 5h

A short term easy thing I could do is probably run something that checks to see if say 5 or more of their posts have been labeled for follow-farming. That does seem to get a lot of them.

Longer term, I'm going to need to train some classifiers.