Folker

@folkerschamel
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Not a big user of social networks, but it seems that when I do take part in discussions, I seem to like to advocate for social networks to be open, decentralized and interoperable.
FolkerFeb 9

Did you also notice the pattern?

If something goes wrong using an #AI, people always blame the user:
Your prompt was bad. You didn't use AI to optimize the prompt. Flawed CLAUDE.md. Insufficient context window. Wrong #LLM temperature. Inadequate training data. Just change a single comma as described in my Medium article no 4632 to be as successful as me.

Nobody says: Hey, #ML and LLMs are not classical computers anymore. They are inherently not reliable. And this is really NOT your fault.

FolkerOct 6
SignalOct 3, 2025
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/germany-chat-control.pdf
Show threadFolkerOct 5
@snarfed.org It seems to have grown far beyond only some few tech nerds 🙂
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@snarfed.org Ah, great, missed that!
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@snarfed.org No, just wanted to confirm your statement that it is a pity that this dashboard cannot be made public. And wanted to suggest to add the numbers of bridged accounts. And I forgot to thank you for this great project!
FolkerOct 5
Ryan BarrettOct 5

A glimpse into the Bridgy Fed monitoring dashboards. Pretty conventional mix of infra, OS, and app level metrics.

Note the delay numbers. When you do something in one network, how quickly do we bridge it across? We pay a lot of attention to that, we try hard to keep it as fast as possible!

I wish we could make these dashboards public! Google Cloud Monitoring doesn’t support that right now; hopefully they will eventually.

Show threadFolkerOct 5
@snarfed.org Cool! Yes, the dashboard being public would be indeed great. Btw, what about the metric of bridged accounts?
Show threadFolkerSep 30, 2025
@danabra.mov There are unbridged interactions I cannot follow up with, e.g. ask if and where this goal or plan of decentralized labelers is supported in #atproto, and how that can scale to real decentralization. But anyway, it seems we all agree that this is an academical discussion, and right now #bluesky is basically centralized in practice. Nevertheless interesting discussion about protocols. Ideally all social media users could interact with each other using the same protocol.
Show threadFolkerSep 29, 2025
@danabra.mov
I appreciate the flexibility and modularity.
About "why": I would consider reusing a single or very few entity controlling moderation as centralization, but 8000 entities each controlling only a disjoint subset of moderation decisions as decentral. You see it differently?
Do I understand you correctly that a goal of #atproto is to allow 8000 entities to operate their own appview each pulling from 8000 labelers? https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/moderation?utm_source=chatgpt.com#labeler-subscriptions seems to mention a limit of 20.
Labels and moderation | Bluesky

Moderation in Bluesky consists of multiple, stackable systems, including:

Show threadFolkerSep 29, 2025
@cloudhunter.co.uk @danabra.mov 8000 servers, yes. See "Network health" on https://joinmastodon.org/servers
Servers

Find where to sign up for the decentralized social network Mastodon.