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Tried to follow the bluesky link with the source of the title quote... you can't view a bluesky post without making an account? Strange way to attract adoption
by Brian_K_White 3y ago
Tried to follow the bluesky link with the source of the title quote... you can't view a bluesky post without making an account?
Strange way to attract adoption... I can't see that linked source, which is annoying, and that stink is slathered all over Bluesky in my head, ensuring that now I not only passively haven't been motivated to make an account yet, I am now actively repelled and probably never will. (This isn't a defense of xitter, I never had a twitter account either.)
- chownie 3y agoBluesky is in closed invite-only beta but public posts/profiles are on the horizon now I believe — the last public announcement was about this in fact. That aside – I hope this response is perhaps a little bit hyperbolic? You came across a 403 and now that site has a "stink slathered" over it? If this is sincere you'd probably evaporate from rage trying to read US news orgs from a European country.
- Brian_K_White 3y agoI'd been hearing about bluesky enough that I thought it was operating normally. I don't understand why you find that language hyperbolic. Yes, I find requiring an account to see a post to figuratively stink, as in, it makes me want to avoid. A choice to decline something is not rage, and I find it strange to try to paint it as such.