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Appreciated Daniel reaching out to the team about this! Hosting blobs is one of those things that will inevitably go through iterations as we understand the abu

by pfraze 2y ago

Appreciated Daniel reaching out to the team about this! Hosting blobs is one of those things that will inevitably go through iterations as we understand the abuse vectors more and more, but for now it's really fun to see this kind of usage in action. The PDS is meant to be a database host in the same sense that a webserver is a website host.

sebmellen 2y ago
Are you ever going to bring back Beaker Browser? Used to love playing around with that! Didn't realize you'd gone on to Bluesky, very neat.
- pfraze 2y ago
  Thanks! Probably won’t revive it, but it was a great experience. Wrote some notes on it here: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/blob/master/archive-notice.md https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/blob/master/archive-...
moritonal 2y ago
Congrats on finding a role at Bluesky. Beaker was such an amazing project to follow, that experience must be so useful.
nileshtrivedi 2y ago
Doesn't the potential for abuse reduce when content is linked through user's own domain rather than a particular appview like bsky? Bsky already supports a user's domain ALIASed to redirect.bsky.com: https://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3kh6rnpdzmp2v https://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3kh6rnpdzmp2v
- philipwhiuk 2y ago
  If people use BlueSky as a magnet link for illegal content it will quickly become a problem.
starkruzr 2y ago
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philipwhiuk 2y ago
You're walking headfirst into the copyright, CSAM, pornography hole of content moderation here.
- nutanc 2y ago
  Agreed. I assume this will open up Bluesky to a lot of potential legal problems. But will it be any different from accesing the content using the app as the content is anyway hosted. That said, just the other day I was thinking, is the reverse possible. I have a web site/blog. Use RSS and then the RSS updates are posted to a handle on Bluesky. I would assume that's a lot more useful?
  - diggan 2y ago
    > That said, just the other day I was thinking, is the reverse possible. I have a web site/blog. Use RSS and then the RSS updates are posted to a handle on Bluesky. I would assume that's a lot more useful? This is trivial, I'm currently doing this for https://bsky.app/profile/aemet-bot.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/aemet-bot.bsky.social which reads a bunch of RSS feeds from AEMET (Spain's national weather service basically) and posts warnings to the feed if there is any warning above Yellow. The code for managing this is about ~200 lines of Rust code.
    - nutanc 2y ago
      This is cool. Actually if bluesky can do this automatically where it can fetch RSS and show as handle updates it will be really useful. Will help a bunch of people who wouldn't need to maintain the services. Or maybe there is a potential for a SaaS service?
    - skiman10 2y ago
      Do you have that code posted somewhere by chance? I would be interested in browsing through it!
      - diggan 2y ago

by pfraze 2y ago

sebmellen 2y ago

Are you ever going to bring back Beaker Browser? Used to love playing around with that! Didn't realize you'd gone on to Bluesky, very neat.

pfraze 2y ago
Thanks! Probably won’t revive it, but it was a great experience. Wrote some notes on it here: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/blob/master/archive-notice.md https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/blob/master/archive-...

moritonal 2y ago

Congrats on finding a role at Bluesky. Beaker was such an amazing project to follow, that experience must be so useful.

nileshtrivedi 2y ago

Doesn't the potential for abuse reduce when content is linked through user's own domain rather than a particular appview like bsky? Bsky already supports a user's domain ALIASed to redirect.bsky.com: https://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3kh6rnpdzmp2v https://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3kh6rnpdzmp2v

philipwhiuk 2y ago
If people use BlueSky as a magnet link for illegal content it will quickly become a problem.

starkruzr 2y ago

[flagged]

philipwhiuk 2y ago

You're walking headfirst into the copyright, CSAM, pornography hole of content moderation here.

nutanc 2y ago
Agreed. I assume this will open up Bluesky to a lot of potential legal problems. But will it be any different from accesing the content using the app as the content is anyway hosted. That said, just the other day I was thinking, is the reverse possible. I have a web site/blog. Use RSS and then the RSS updates are posted to a handle on Bluesky. I would assume that's a lot more useful?
- diggan 2y ago
  > That said, just the other day I was thinking, is the reverse possible. I have a web site/blog. Use RSS and then the RSS updates are posted to a handle on Bluesky. I would assume that's a lot more useful? This is trivial, I'm currently doing this for https://bsky.app/profile/aemet-bot.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/aemet-bot.bsky.social which reads a bunch of RSS feeds from AEMET (Spain's national weather service basically) and posts warnings to the feed if there is any warning above Yellow. The code for managing this is about ~200 lines of Rust code.
  - nutanc 2y ago
    This is cool. Actually if bluesky can do this automatically where it can fetch RSS and show as handle updates it will be really useful. Will help a bunch of people who wouldn't need to maintain the services. Or maybe there is a potential for a SaaS service?
  - skiman10 2y ago
    Do you have that code posted somewhere by chance? I would be interested in browsing through it!
    - diggan 2y ago