pushpin-labeler

A BlueSky Labeler service which labels (and by default, hides) posts which use the 📌 emoji.

There is a custom feed which shows people posts they've replied to with 📌, but that can clutters other people's feeds with no-information posts. It is based on the @skyware/labeler starter kit.

Mostly this is an excuse to try writing a labeler.

For this to actually function in the ATProto universe, it needs to be deployed to the service defined in a given labeler's DID document under the #atproto_labeler service. You can run it locally, but the labels will not be seen by subscribers.

The labeler we've set up for this has DID did:plc:sbnsfdwbgbtfgsp35377cysf and is currently at at://pushpin-labeler.bsky.social; the labeler service is configured to run at https://pushpin-labeler.knightlab.com

getting started

This project uses nvm to manage the node version. See .nvmrc for the definitive version, but currently set to lts/iron If you have nvm installed, it should use that directly, at least for local development

After checking out the repo: npm install

create a .env file that defines the following values. By now, you should have set up a BlueSky account for which you have a DID and password (the password can be an app password) The signing key comes from setting up the labeler, using npx @skyware/labeler setup LABELER_DID LABELER_PASSWORD SIGNING_KEY DEBUG (optional, set to true to see log output)

npm start will start the labeler service, which listens to the BlueSky Jetstream and creates labels as appropriate. Labels are stored in a database. For local development, they are stored using SQLite in a database named labels.db (with some associated files). For now, we'll use SQLite in production too, although eventually, we may want to switch to another database. While we are using SQLite, you should not deploy copies of the labels.db* files, or you would overwrite any labels created by the production service.