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the potential future of the AT protocol is the main idea i thought made it differentiate itself... also twitter locking users out if they don't have an account,
by sidrag22 10mo ago
the potential future of the AT protocol is the main idea i thought made it differentiate itself... also twitter locking users out if they don't have an account, and bluesky not doing so... but i guess thats no longer true?
I just don't understand that choice for either platform, is the intent not, biggest reach possible? locking potential viewers out is such a direct contradiction of that.
edit: seems its user choice to force login to view a post, which changes my mind significantly on if its a bad platform decision.
- danabramov 10mo agoBluesky is not locking anyone out. This is literally a user setting to not display their account without logging in. It's off by default. And yes, you can still inspect the post itself over the AT protocol: https://pdsls.dev/at://robpike.io/app.bsky.feed.post/3matwg6w3ic2s https://pdsls.dev/at://robpike.io/app.bsky.feed.post/3matwg6...
- Jach 10mo agoX went back on that quite some time ago. Have a bird post: https://x.com/GuGi263/status/2002306730609287628 https://x.com/GuGi263/status/2002306730609287628 (You won't be able to read replies, or browse to the user's post feed, but you can at least see individual tweets. I still wrap links with s/x/fxtwitter/ though since it tends to be a better preview in e.g. discord.) For bluesky, it seems to be a user choice thing, and a step between full-public and only-followers.
- jdhendrickson 10mo agoIt's a setting on BlueSky, that the user can enable for their own account, and for people of prominence who don't feel like dealing with drive by trolls all day, I think it's very reasonable. One is a money grab, and the other is giving power to the user.