








Bluesky Preferences helper
Pocket: atproto user preference storage
API Documentation for Pocket, a simple user-preference storage system for atproto
Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI
I’m sick of “opt-out” toggles for automatically enabled generative AI features. It’s past time to make “opt in” the default setting for sensitive features.

Meta will use your activity on other websites to personalize your feeds
You’ll still be able to opt out.

Bluesky now lets you ask not to go viral - Sensemaker
A new Discover opt-out makes distribution preference portable, but public posts stay public and other apps decide whether to honor it.
Settings – Codex app | OpenAI Developers
Configure Codex app behavior and preferences

Choosing Less‐Preferred Experiences For the Sake of Variety
Abstract. Data from several experiments show that, contrary to traditional models of variety seeking, individuals choose to switch to less-preferred option


Victorian Liberals to preference One Nation at state election
The preference strategy, while designed to galvanise the anti-Labor vote across the state, risks a backlash in the party’s urban and middle-suburb heartland.
Add community.lexicon.preference.ai lexicon by ngerakines · Pull Request #72 · lexicon-community/lexicon
Summary Introduces the community.lexicon.preference.ai lexicon for declaring user preferences regarding AI usage of their public data Decomposes AI usage into four distinct categories (training, i...
Settings are not a design failure
The systematic thinking in our industry is that settings are the result of design failure. As designers, our goal is to create product experiences that don’t require any adjustment by the user. So offering customization options is often seen as a failure to make firm product decisions. I think there is a misunderstanding about what settings really are.

Can browser choice screens be effective?
Innovative new research from Mozilla shows that design is critical Browser choice screens are back on the menu. Most notably, the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) will require them from ...

yes, we're planning to just switch to "any". we were considering issues, but it seems like TIDs are still generated if an rkey is not set on record creation. so no breaking changes to existing tools/apps. have a few other things we're exploring for the next update, still working on those
mary🐇
wrt @standard.site, has there been any discussions internally over how tangled.org/standard.site/lexicons/issues… should be dealt with? IMO this is a high sev blocker for services attempting to integrate with standard.site
ICYMI: We have a new "AI Preferences" setting This allows you to announce to the entire ATmosphere network what you consent to regarding AI use of your public data. Other apps can see this but ~may not~ respect the settings We built this to give you a place to set these and will 100% respect them