Ændra Rininsland is joining us to talk about her work on Bluesky and AT Protocol, including running Bluesky's largest News feed and implementing the XBlock Screenshot Labeler.

I joined Bluesky both because I was curious about its new approach to doing decentralised microblogging at scale and also because it felt like it was a place where news media could live, that wasn't owned by a single corporate entity like Twitter.

I also created the News feed, which is a custom curation of news content automatically generated when verified news orgs publish headlines. Currently, it's the most popular source for news content on the platform.

Find out more on her website, including lots of great blog posts and project listings with more details:

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Stuff by Ændra Rininsland

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Follow her on Bluesky @aendra.com

XBlock

The Xblock Screenshot Labeler does auto-detection and labeling of Twitter/X and other platform screenshots.

According to Internect.info, I created the @xblock.aendra.dev account on 4 March, 2024 (in reality, it was closer to April when the labeller came online, albeit as an entirely manual process). Since then, it has processed over 3 million images and labelled about over 132,000 screenshot posts, with a few over 500 mislabelled reports handled by myself via the moderation interface.

Some thoughts on running a screenshot moderation service, one month later

I find content moderation really fascinating, because it’s in many ways the locus point of our current social fixation with “cancel culture” as well as online toxicity more generally. I migrated from Twitter to Mastodon in 2017, but didn’t give up Twitter entirely until Elon Musk took it over. At

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I welcome attempts to build things on top of XBlock's label firehose, models, and firehose consumer (all of which are open source) – please feel free to (though I'd love it if you could mention me so I know that you are!). 

Video

Video and other resources will be published after the event.

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