How to Collect Content Moderation and Other User Data for Social Science Research (AT Protocol)

Convener: Christine Galvagna

Notes

• An implementation of calls designed to collect and organize Mastodon data via its Application Program Interfaces (API), which can be found at https://docs.joinmastodon.org/

• Please use the canonical form https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rtoot to link to this page.

• Some ATProto data services: https://www.microcosm.blue/ …he’s also working on a public archive of all data, called lightrail

• A network data backfill tool: https://atproto.com/blog/introducing-tap

• https://atproto.com/guides/subscriptions

• Old out of date clickhouse dataset: https://sql.clickhouse.com/?query_id=8YAFPZQXXCGD75842UKE2W

• Labeler websocker and query endpoints: https://atproto.com/specs/label#label-distribution-endpoints

• https://atproto.com/guides/labels

• https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/blob/main/lexicons/com/atproto/label/defs.json

• Composable Moderation https://bsky.social/about/blog/4-13-2023-moderation

• websocat wss://mod.bsky.app/xrpc/com.atproto.label.subscribeLabels

• https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/moderation#labeler-subscriptions

• https://github.com/mrd0ll4r/bluesky_downloader#bluesky-labeler-logger

• web socket - just for labels

• post data - microcosm, tap, etc.

• install web sokat - ask for it in R