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Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

extraduder_ire wrote: post #47
benatkin wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Bluesky seems to use a lot of totally different domain names for each part of their infrastructure, maybe for this reason. e.g. this one is bsky.network While they're nowhere close on volume, they're certainly beating microsoft in terms of the rate they're adding similar looking official URLs.

> bsky.network

Shortening your brand to 4 letters when your chosen TLD is the same length as your full brand name is such a weird choice.

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by marcosscriven »

miningape wrote: post #99
rsynnott wrote: post #94

There should really be a name for this phenomenon; put basically anything on the internet, and sooner or later people will try to host arbitrary files on it.

Johnson's Law: The more attention something receives, the bigger it's area of impact becomes.

I thought that was the Streisand effect?

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by the-chitmonger »

I wasn't around for this specific era, but the way users of BlueSky are able to dive deep into technological waters reminds me of how people talk about learning HTML for the first time while using MySpace. Social media is a more saturated market now than before, but I wonder if we'll see a new generation of programmers sprout from BlueSky.

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by floor_ »

the-chitmonger wrote: post #103

I wasn't around for this specific era, but the way users of BlueSky are able to dive deep into technological waters reminds me of how people talk about learning HTML for the first time while using MySpace. Social media is a more saturated market now than before, but I wonder if we'll see a new generation of programmers sprout from BlueSky.

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Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by Rick76 »

SAHChandler wrote: post #45

I'm very hopeful for the possibility of using bluesky for blob data. A friend and I had considered looking into storing DOOM WADs on bluesky so that "map packs" could be shared in the same way posts are. Follow an account, a list, or a starter pack, and you could theoretically modify GZDoom or some other client to know how to search and view any WADs posted by those accounts. Like how the Steam Workshop works, except…

This is a cool idea, are you thinking of self-hosting this or on their servers? Have they mentioned anything about any guidelines for what their blob storage can be used for? I know doom is small and that's a great idea, a workshop is a perfect example of how this can be used. I'm just wondering if this can be abused to outsource large server space.

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by philipwhiuk »

pfraze wrote: post #15

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.

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

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by philipwhiuk »

nileshtrivedi wrote: post #84
pfraze wrote: post #15

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.

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

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

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by nicky0 »

remram wrote: post #32
h4x0rr wrote: post #24

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.

The link in question (linked from the the sumbitted link) is `porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network`. That's hosted by bsky, isn't it?

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by nutanc »

philipwhiuk wrote: post #106
pfraze wrote: post #15

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.

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

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?

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