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What's the license for the Bluesky data btw? Is it something free to mirror and train LLMs on?
However, data on AT Proto is fully public and it’d be trivial for someone to extract the data for AI to train.
For example, this app shows you entries hosted on the protocol: https://atproto-browser.vercel.app/at/nytimes.com
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I don't see how. This is a direct link to the author's bluesky server (PDS) so of course it is controlled by them.
Lack of moderation combined with an offical-sounding domain name. This would have to get the user to follow a link or call a phone number or something though. These are plausible. It's too bad the content-security-policy can't prevent following links.
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In what sense?
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I can formulate a response, but it's already required more thought and effort than you seemed to have put into your comment. Engagement farming and bait isn't what HN is generally for.
I think the AT protocol is versatile in that users can acces each others data once authenticated without any centralized service (granted the aggregators and some other things may still be centralized).
Is there any auth necessary to pull data from a PDS? I know the main relay is a public firehouse so I would be surprised, but maybe the PDS can put relay servers on an allowlist?
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is there any hosting site that isn't? feels like a computing law at this point; if you build a hosting site, someone will try to use it for malicious purposes.
Can’t you just make the hosting site features only be for real purposes? Like a link shortener which only forwards to a domain that matches the subdomain? Or only for watching videos and collecting metrics etc.
Whenever I hear about Bluesky I think about Jack Dorsey quitting their board and asked people to stay on Twittet/X. https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/07/j...
What do you think about it? What I remember about that whole affair is that I'd really respected Jack for starting Bluesky, allowing it to be independent of Twitter (and Jay deserves a heaping of credit for pushing that!), and then losing that respect when he seemed to totally misunderstand what Bluesky had gone on to achieve. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/13/bluesky-is-building-the-... Jack was pushing Nostr at t…
If techdirt’s article is to be believed, Dorsey’s departure has to do with going from an extreme to an extreme—from a traditional social monolith to a pure protocol—whereas Bluesky chose to pursue not only the protocol, but also “the app” as the face of that protocol for the ordinary user, and let’s face it: the ordinary user does not really care about protocols.
My speculation about him suggesting people “stay on Twitter” is that Nostr (which he apparently is invested in now) and Twitter are orthogonal, so there is no conflict there, but Bluesky competes with both.
Not a Bluesky user (the invite-only period has put me off for a while), but if they do not compromise on the protocol part (and there are no shenanigans unfolding, who knows, maybe Dorsey found something) their attitude seems to me to be the most reasonable for a mainstream social platform.
https://bsky.app/profile/leocomerford.bsky.social/post/3l7v6... To help the hard of clicking, this time I have pasted it all for you: Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social Why was it decided not to build on any existing content-addressable networking system (IPFS or whatever)? November 1, 2024 at 12:39 PM Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · 23d (Not implying that this was the wrong decision, it’s…
"skeet" is such a terrible term for this. It's like mastodon "toot"s. Using bodily functions as core infra terminology is off-putting and feels like a bit like a juvenile boy's club. I get that some people find it funny, but it alienates people. We should just call these "posts". Same thing with names like CockroachDB and GIMP.
unrelated probably, but it made me realize how I don't really see Hugo/Jekyll type websites anymore.
I see plenty of blogs generated from Markdown with tools like that. Has something overtaken Hugo and Jekyll in that space?
I maintain a blog on Hugo but also host a couple of Astro ones. I think Hugo is great but to my eyes at least Astro has more active development behind it, and I also enjoy it more (probably because I know Typescript more than golang)
Anyone else feels like this will be abused for phishing and/or malware distribution?
I don't see how. This is a direct link to the author's bluesky server (PDS) so of course it is controlled by them.
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Click here to Unsubscribe from Bluesky
https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.s...
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Redirects to bad site.