Erin Kissane has written a piece about the significance of the White House’s entry into Bluesky and ATProto and discusses how ATProto and the ATmosphere are situated in the public discourse.
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See also this update from Scioattollo’s SkyWatch, which will now apply labels to help people notice clumsy/obvious astroturfing:
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I’ve been staring to work on threat modeling and mitigations for this situation, both for the ATmosphere and for fedi.. Here’s an outline … feedback welcome!
A few specific questions:
- What other threats, opportunities, and mitigations am I missing?
- What resources (how-tos for various functionality, lists of blocklists and labelers, etc) are useful?
- Thoughts about how to package this in a digestible way? One obvious simplification is to break out separate posts with specific recommendations for the ATmosphere and fedi (which would get a lot of the implementation-specific detail out of the overall threat model), but there’s a lot more that could potentially be done …
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