I posted a mini thread this morning and thought I’d put the gist here as well. In short, I think (and have seen) that labels have a lot of potential power beyond the trust and safety framework.
I think it could be cool if atproto labels had an optional “action” which could provide more context or a path to deeper engagement. AppViews could provide a CTA button in the label details when it’s defined
@atstore.fyi could label verified apps, and when I go to that app’s profile, there’s a button that takes me to their ATStore profile page
Labelers could assert “this post is ‘about’ X” where X is any concept people might want to act upon. Subscribe to this podcast. Add this book to my reading list. Watch my feed for me and do that automatically if the post is from these specific accounts.
Because we choose what labelers to subscribe to, it’s spam-resistant. If a labeler abuses your trust you unsubscribe or block it.
If label operators used @standard.site themes, AppViews could readily make them visually distinct, which would make it more clear that they come from different sources and more generally help make sense if people came to subscribe to many of them
What do you think?
Relatedly, and more basically: the current “report post” flow in BlueSky offers the reasons for reporting before selecting the labeler. Are they the best reasons?
If you picked the labeler first, the AppView (eg BlueSky or BlackSky) could present labeler-specific reasons for reporting configured through some extension of the lexicon. And they might not be “reporting” but any message back to the labeler/app that doesn’t require immediate feedback like “add the book you recognized here to my to-read list” or “vouch for this person” in the vein of Tangled’s new web of trust system.
In some future world maybe the labeler could specify a web tiles component that facilitated interaction with the remote service. Maybe this replaces the single “action” with a panel of actions. Hmm. Except that web tiles can’t communicate over the web. I imagine i haven’t thought through all of the security implications of the single “action” link either. If you trust the labeler, how far can you trust a link they provide (in the lexicon or the label, both of which seem hard to compromise)?
Labelers could become simple bridges that help you use useful atmosphere apps in the context of your regular feed reading.
(small edit after rereading the web tiles stuff)