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jonathanwarden.com @jonathanwarden.com · 3h

Thank you to whoever added a community note to this post!

jonathanwarden.com @jonathanwarden.com · 17h

Hahah yes. I probably should come up with a better logo. Just haven't thought of one yet.

On the other hand, maybe I'll send up getting a lot of people using my app because they think it's Bluesky for musicians ;)

jonathanwarden.com @jonathanwarden.com · 17h

X adds an additional "Rater Impact Score", which I haven't yet implemented. Your rater impact is how many notes which you rate as helpful (or not helpful) that ultimately reach "rated helpful" (or "rated not helpful") status. You need a rater impact score of 5 before you can write notes.

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jonathanwarden.com @jonathanwarden.com · 17h

The Matrix Factorization algorithm Community Notes uses kind of has a built-in reputation system. Most people don't see it that way, but the fact is that if you consistently rate notes as helpful that ultimately reach helpful status, your future ratings will effectively have more weight.

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jonathanwarden.com @jonathanwarden.com · 17h

Oh thanks for testing that @zicklag.dev . I should mention the app password option in the beta guide.

@erlend.sh other than an app password there's no workaround. I was just going to make a list of people who were waiting for OAuth so I could notify them when it was ready.

Bluenotes

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jonathanwarden.com @jonathanwarden.com · 1d

jonathanwarden.com/understandin...

Understanding Community Notes and Bridging-Based Ranking

UPDATE: See a discussion of this article on Hacker News.\nIntroduction Bridging-Based Ranking is a way of scoring and ranking online content that bridges divides.\nThe term “Bridging-Based Ranking” wa...

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jonathanwarden.com @jonathanwarden.com · 1d

@cnviolations.bsky.social Thought you might like to know, I've implemented the Community Notes feature in a fork of the main Bluesky app. The Phase 1 beta is live at bluenotes.social.

Bluenotes

Bluesky with Community Notes. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.

bluenotes.social

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jonathanwarden.com @jonathanwarden.com · 1d

I've built Bluenotes, a fork of the Bluesky app with Community Notes. Phase 1 beta is live.

bluenotes.social

Looking for thoughtful early testers. The algorithm needs data from diverse perspectives before it can identify helpful notes, so we're building that foundation first.

Bluenotes

Bluesky with Community Notes. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.

bluenotes.social

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jonathanwarden.com @jonathanwarden.com · 11d

kennethreitz.org/essays/2025-...

When Values Eat Their Young: How Ideal-Driven Groups Drift into Their Own Shadow

Picture this: A Slack channel for an open-source project that prominently displays "Be excellent to each other" in its community guidelines. Six months...

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business goose🪿 @goose.art · 13d

Interesting writeup, i think one idea that is sort of similar to the UUID approach would be just using Tags to create ad hoc community spaces without central authority. Posting a record with #Seattle (ideally not inline with the text) creates a sort of community space in the indexing of the tags

bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 13d

wrote up a little thing

AT Namespaces for Community Spaces

How should public community-controlled spaces be represented in atproto?

bnewbold.leaflet.pub

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jonathanwarden.com @jonathanwarden.com · 16d

Yes I call it "hate following" when people follow someone just to dunk on them. And it's often "behind their back", where they post a screenshot to Twitter or Reddit.

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jonathanwarden.com @jonathanwarden.com · Aug 19

I just created this starter kit for creating and deploying a Atproto labeler using the @skyware.js.org labeler and fly.io: github.com/johnwarden/a...

GitHub - johnwarden/atproto-labeler-starter-kit

Contribute to johnwarden/atproto-labeler-starter-kit development by creating an account on GitHub.

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jonathanwarden.com @jonathanwarden.com · Aug 17

People’s perception of a problem are often have little relation to the reality. But how do you evaluate reality? Certainly not with trends. If something is a problem it’s a problem, whether it is getting better or worse.

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jonathanwarden.com @jonathanwarden.com · May 7

My latest blog post: jonathanwarden.com/quadratic-fu...

8 Reasons Why Quadratic Funding Is Not Optimal

Introduction Quadratic funding has received a lot of attention recently as a mechanism for funding public goods—especially in the cryptocurrency space. QF is appealing because it is theoretically opti...

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jonathanwarden.com @jonathanwarden.com · May 1

www.prosocialdesign.org

Prosocial Design Network

The Prosocial Design Network advocates for prosocial design: evidence-based design practices that bring out the best in human nature online.

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jonathanwarden.com @jonathanwarden.com · May 1

One experiment I'd like to do is run the Community Notes algorithm on some Polis conversations, and vice versa, and see if they provide similar insights on group opinion.

jonathanwarden.com @jonathanwarden.com · May 1

Hi, I'm very interested in this stuff! I've been doing some experiments with dimension reduction on community notes data and data from some of the deliberative experiments in the deliberative democracy world. Also working with metagov.

Sorry I couldn't make yesterday's call. How did it go?

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jonathanwarden.com @jonathanwarden.com · Apr 6

My latest essay:
social-protocols.org/what-is-a-so...

What Is a Social Protocol? - Social Protocols

Introduction The rules that determine what gets attention on social platforms are often called “algorithms,” but algorithms are only part of the story. Another way to understand social platforms is as...

social-protocols.org

jonathanwarden.com @jonathanwarden.com · Apr 2

www.gov.ca.gov/2025/03/20/s...

Sign ups soar as thousands join the conversation on California’s new deliberative democracy platform | Governor of California

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jonathanwarden.com @jonathanwarden.com · Apr 2

My latest essay: social-protocols.org/what-is-a-so...

What Is a Social Protocol? - Social Protocols

Introduction The rules that determine what gets attention in social platforms are often referred to as “algorithms”. But algorithms are only part of the story. Another way of understanding social plat...

social-protocols.org

jonathanwarden.com @jonathanwarden.com · Mar 29

New paper on "Prosocial Media". Authors include people from Plurality.net and the Collective Intelligence project (cip.org/): arxiv.org/abs/2502.10834.

Lot's of interesting ideas for improving social media algorithms.