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Mario Zechner

Standard, iframes kann man mit CSS stylen.
cards-for-ukraine.at

The past two nights I wrote a "thread reader app" for BlueSky.

skyview.social

The protocol is absolutely insane.

There's no privacy. And I don't mean missing DMs.

All your posts are available through API endpoints. Without any authentication. By design.

The "invite-only" thing may have you think otherwise.

Here are my last 100 posts.

bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.r

Quite a few people sure were surprised to learn that all their posts can be read without a BlueSky account. Especially those who fled Xitter to be a bit more sheltered from harassers and nazis.

Welp.

For all its faults, Mastodon is the better platform for people who care about having control over their data. It's definitely not perfect in that regard either, but at least it tries.

Also, it has GIFs and videos and polls. Based on BlueSky's dev velocity, they'll have that sometime 2032.

@badlogic well yes, that's what you would expect from a federated db

@lritter what you and me would expect (unless the protocol also has provisions for private messaging or visibility settings ala Fedi)

not what normies expect, thinking the invite only system will prevent bad actors from seeing their posts, block lists, etc. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

@badlogic um es mit rudi carrell zu sagen: "überajung!"

@badlogic Please stop with your insane amount of edits of this post! We get a notification for each one!

@frumble sorry, i'm done with it. a big austrian news paper embedded to post and doesn't know edits will be shown in the embed. had to use the opportunity to advertise for a good cause.

@badlogic Jetzt steht da oben "Standard, iframes kann man mit CSS stylen.", ist das sicher beabsichtigt?!

@frumble
"had to use the opportunity to advertise for a good cause"

@frumble sorry nochmal für die notifications!

@badlogic I've always thought that it was merely an excuse for a colossal data mining operation. I suppose that's how automated moderation and stuff is going to happen too.