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Almost nothing makes my blood boil more than when a large powerful institution unfairly destroys someone’s reputation, and its principal reason for doing so is to minimize bad publicity in an effort to protect its own ‘reputation.’ Sadly, I have seen this occur in many academic…— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) January 2, 2026
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Moderating With Humans, For Humans - Trust Issues
I think #ATScience should subsume those old, storied, and respected(?) reputation systems. What value they provide can be a great starting point for something far greater.
Aug 25, 2026 at 12:26 AM
As atproto matures, adversarial actors will reveal all the places where trust is implicit rather than managed - maybe time to build reputation mechanisms for PDSs like we do for email servers? It'll likely need to be default-block/prove-healthy, or default throttle until proven typical?
Scoiattolo
They've got a huge network that I'm in the process of graphing. They're now setting up their own PDSes. It's sophisticated.
As atproto matures, adversarial actors will reveal all the places where trust is implicit rather than managed - maybe time to build reputation mechanisms for PDSs like we do for email servers? It'll likely need to be default-block/prove-healthy, or default throttle until proven typical?
Scoiattolo
They've got a huge network that I'm in the process of graphing. They're now setting up their own PDSes. It's sophisticated.
Imagine community attestation for (scientific) achievements. Labeling that. Which brings me back to the question whether #ATScience should replicate trad. reputation? I really don't know!
Do our social media algorithms correctly reflect our values? Our new article published today in @pnas.org shows that the answer is often not, and that the content that gets promoted into their ranked feeds is often actively counter to our values.
Do our social media algorithms correctly reflect our values? Our new article published today in @pnas.org shows that the answer is often not, and that the content that gets promoted into their ranked feeds is often actively counter to our values.
Attie feels disconnected from what their user base is going to respond positively to I bet, which makes me wonder if they build things in service to their community or not. With that said, Graze has had (something like) this forever and didn't get the same backlash. That's worth acknowledging.
hey @pressfreedom.bsky.social @europeanjournalists.org @atrupar.com @bellingcat.com @trustfnd.com @at-tgibson.bsky.social @reporter-ohne-grenzen.de 👋 We want to make highly trustworthy decentralized (atrproto profiles for journalists (→ github.com/singi-labs/sifa-workspace/iss…), who do we talk to? 😅
Journalism Lexicon & Feature expansion · Issue #121 · singi-labs/sifa-workspace
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