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Thanks to your post I just discovered the "Bookmarks" labeller! You report posts to the labeling service and subscribe to its (personalized) feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Nice, thanks! It's not optimal, but at least it's something ☺️ But I can't find a way to remove a bookmark...

If I’ve subscribed to some labeler, do I only see those labels show up if I happen upon a labeled profile? Or is there any way to view in aggregate all profiles with a specific label?

Oh this is interesting, what other custom apps do you know of?

I'm just starting to explore them - www.bluesky-labelers.io has a good list of labelers but I think custom feeds may be even more interesting

Once you turn it on it looks like this

Wrote a bit more about labelers on my blog simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/22/...

Good post! Regarding lack of bookmark feature, you can direct message posts to yourself - effectively mimicking a bookmark.

A lot of people are concerned about the potential for abuse with this custom label feature What's the worst case scenario here, given that labels are only visible to the people who opt-in to seeing labels from that specific labeler?

Someone needs to do this for GitHub profiles!! 😀

Dumb question - how do you subscribe to it?

You should get a big subscribe button

Maybe I have to update Bluesky

Where can I find other existing labels?

Just to be clear, the labeler will use some logic etc to decide what label applies to any profile I visit (assuming I have subscribed to a label that has labeled that profile).

What are all those "off | Show badge | hide" settings. Default is show badge, so I guess off or hide is if I do not want some label on someone? What's the difference? And how do they label?

Each labeler runs custom code, so it is entirely up to them how they apply labels The school fees one I linked to is manually curated

bsky.app/profile/did:... says "To bookmark a post, report it to this labeler.". And clicking on Report does show the labelers I am subscribed to.

Hmmmm. Is this delightful? I find myself uncomfortable with all the ways I can imagine this will give for people to blacklist, namecall, putdown, and otherwise label and stereotype people—at scale—with criticisms. #Bluesky

This is definitely a great feature, but there's something about it that makes me uncomfortable. Couldn't this be used for harassment? Imagine an app that "labels" people in derrogatory ways.

It's always up to the user to decide what labels they're going to subscribe to. I don't think there would be any turned on by default. Obviously you have the problem that the designer will subsequently decide to change it in unwanted ways, or will be convinced to hand it off to someone malicious.

Yeah I'm not too worried about that since seeing these labels is an opt-in thing - it's not much different from someone having a website somewhere else that says nasty things and links to Bluesky profiles

This is very clever. Is there somewhere to find other labellers?

I went to a private/public school, but got an "assisted place" so almost all of my fees were paid for by the government. There's no other way a lad like me from a working class family could have attended.

I'm explicit with the labeller that scholarship pupils, grant pupils, etc, are still included - because it's the later effects that are useful context - students from these schools get a leg up and a degree of privilege, which contributes eg to the overrepresentation in British media/politics

Fair, though I would argue I've never had a leg up in my entire life other than the assisted place. More importantly, I have zero interest in politics other than voting the Tories out.