Dave Troy

@davetroy.com

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Investigative journalist addressing threats to democracy. Baltimore/Washington. Pilot, chef, coder.

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BlueSky is not a trustworthy platform. More info here. https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1661285167485399042?s=46&t=dzijwWz0l8sjuW0vH11GAA

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We broke 100,000 interactions visualized in https://bsky.jazco.dev/ !!! A new cluster is differentiating itself that seems to be an Artist cluster! Combined with the Swiftie cluster, we've got two clusters that now have differentiated based on interest/profession instead of just language! Exciting!

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Presenting an exploration of Bluesky's network. Going to go over the community structure, evolution of the network, top accounts, etc. First, here is the high-level community structure with some labels. Hi res w/ zoom here: https://www.easyzoom.com/imageaccess/884cb1c001cd48e79aca92232bd24a04

Updated my handle here to @davetroy.com which feels… weird, but okay. Let’s see how that goes.

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The way we build & grow social networks and apps can amplify and exacerbate the existing inequities in society. But it doesn’t have to be that way. (This piece is from 7 years ago; it’s about how networks are shaped by who gets access.) https://medium.com/humane-tech/network-inequality-3309fb1aac59

Network Inequalitymedium.com The way we build and grow social networks and apps can amplify and exacerbate the existing inequities in society. But it doesn’t have to be…

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can't wait til we can have custom "what's hot" feeds and i can just crank `yes_butt` all the way up

butt detector https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/blob/0b70f50eb44bf6a936115f0e24690a42585b69a6/packages/pds/src/labeler/hive.ts#L83

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Staking out a spot here to prevent squatters. Please find me on Mastodon at @[email protected] and, for now, at @davetroy on Twitter — until it augurs into the mountainside.

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