archives (@archives@neon-blue-demon-wyrm.x10.network)
My PDS Doesn’t Participate in Bluesky’s Age-Verification Flow
So, apparently, with the last few updates Bluesky has done, they have expanded the regions that need to be age-verified to Ohio, and they are preparing to expand it to Australia. They have also made it so that people don’t have access to DMs or material labeled by Bluesky’s moderation services. I’ve been looking into the age verification system that Bluesky uses as I configure my own PDS. app.bsky.ageassurance.begin is an explicit API call that a client or PDS must intentionally call to start the age-verification process, hand the user off to the verification provider, and receive an updated age-assurance state.
Check here for the official Bluesky documentation:
This endpoint is part of the Bluesky application Lexicon APIs (app.bsky.*). Public endpoints which don’t require authentication can be made directly against the public Bluesky AppView API: https://public.api.bsky.app. Authenticated requests are usually made to the user’s PDS, with automatic service proxying. Authenticated requests can be used for both public and non-public endpoints.
https://docs.bsky.app/docs/api/app-bsky-ageassurance-begin
If a PDS does not call app.bsky.ageassurance.begin, the age-verification flow does not start. Age verification occurs on the client side, not the server side. If a PDS does not implement the app.bsky.ageassurance.* endpoints, it cannot interact with Bluesky’s age verification flow.
Georgia—where I currently live as of writing this post—does have age restriction and verification laws; however, they are weak, so Bluesky has not had to do much in my state. As a result, I’ve just been using Bluesky’s PDS. However, I have been setting up my own PDS. Since my PDS does not call app.bsky.ageassurance.begin, does not check getState, and does not read getConfig, it has no way to initiate age verification, determine whether a user is verified, or enforce or reflect any age-based restrictions. My PDS does not participate in Bluesky’s age-assurance system at all. That’s just one part of Bluesky’s moderation structure. Bluesky’s moderation services use labelers.
Labels and moderation
https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/moderation
Labelers are services or accounts that apply moderation labels. My PDS does not declare default app labelers, so it does not automatically trust any labelers. I have max user control with the minimum level of automated moderation.
If you do not want to through all of this trouble and want to keep using the native bsky.app, see here:
Bluesky’s age assurance sucks, here’s how to work around it.
https://gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b24a83838202908808ad528b3318
I am going to be honest. I hate Bluesky’s political, philosophical, and ideological values, think its moderation is heavily flawed, and am more closely aligned politically with the Fediverse. But… the Fediverse is not fun. It’s essentially people constantly commiserating, with no interesting or entertaining content, peppered with manifestos and “this bad thing happened in the news—be enraged by it” posts. I really wanted to love the Fediverse, but there’s nothing to do over there.
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