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Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by natoliniak » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 4:57 PM UTC

tomrod wrote: post #140

irusensei wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The invite-only system established the main Bluesky instance as a big circlejerk. It worked with Orkut back in the day where the internet was new and untainted by culture wars. Bluesky is lefty twitter now and I want no business with that platform.

> Bluesky is lefty twitter now and I want no business with that platform. I love hearing people say this, because in reality Bluesky covers most of the political dimensions one wants to subdivide a population by except the most toxic of participants. Also, most of the academics have moved to Bluesky because Twitter became toxic / suppressed speech dramatically and at the whims of one Mr. Musk. As per usual, where the…

> Twitter became toxic / suppressed speech dramatically

But what kind of speech is supressed nowadays on X? what about Bluesky? does Bluesky not supress any speech?

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by skiman10 » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 5:05 PM UTC

diggan wrote: post #137

nutanc wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

> 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 which reads a bunch of RSS feeds from AEMET (Spain's national weather service basically) and posts warnings to the feed i…

Do you have that code posted somewhere by chance? I would be interested in browsing through it!

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by alpb » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 5:25 PM UTC

Right now it's the only page under site:bsky.network if you search for that. Hilarious and awesome! https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Absky.network Daniel is a great hacker.

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

#154

Post by diggan » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 5:37 PM UTC

skiman10 wrote: post #152

diggan wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 which reads a bunch of RSS feeds from AEMET (Spain's national weather service basically) and posts warnings to the feed i…

Do you have that code posted somewhere by chance? I would be interested in browsing through it!

Not right now, no. It's fairly simple (login to Bluesky, read RSS, save item IDs to a text file, post if there are any new feed items, close program then systemd timers run this every N minutes) + pretty specific to AEMET and their formats.

If there is interest I guess I could spend some hours to make it a bit more generic and publish the source.

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by sequoia » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 5:41 PM UTC

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.

Is this comment intended to have a bawdy subtext or am I just reading to much into it?

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by d-lo » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 5:52 PM UTC

hiop wrote: post #148

The recent API changes in Strava reminded me of how limited our access is to the data stored on their platform. As a dominant player in the fitness space, they could gradually lock features behind a subscription wall. While this might raise privacy or safety concerns, could the AT Protocol be a suitable platform for storing GPX or FIT files?

I’d love a federated Strava replacement. Unfortunately I don’t believe that the AT Protocol supports private or limited visibility posts yet, which I think is a pretty key feature for Strava’s use case.

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by BryantD » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 6:04 PM UTC

natoliniak wrote: post #151

tomrod wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Bluesky is lefty twitter now and I want no business with that platform. I love hearing people say this, because in reality Bluesky covers most of the political dimensions one wants to subdivide a population by except the most toxic of participants. Also, most of the academics have moved to Bluesky because Twitter became toxic / suppressed speech dramatically and at the whims of one Mr. Musk. As per usual, where the…

> Twitter became toxic / suppressed speech dramatically But what kind of speech is supressed nowadays on X? what about Bluesky? does Bluesky not supress any speech?

Sure. CSAM.

Meanwhile Twitter is now openly suppressing links off-site. For financial reasons rather than ideological ones (although the latter may also be occurring).

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by brewmarche » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 6:04 PM UTC

nightpool wrote: post #149

johncolanduoni wrote: post #41

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`sandbox` doesn’t affect making requests via HTML (images, stylesheets, etc.).

Right, but what would be the security impact of that compared to just plain HTML? I guess it allows for some form of view counting or IP exfiltration, but other than that anything you can do with an external request you could do with an embedded data URI.

As far as I understand CSP, since it’s set to `none`, no URIs are allowed, not even `data`. Inline scripts and stylesheets are not allowed either, since `unsafe-inline` (or nonces/hashes) is missing.

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by wyager » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 6:42 PM UTC

altcognito wrote: post #117

paulvnickerson wrote: post #111

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Bluesky is decentralized and has no central algorithm, so I'm not sure where you're getting this misinformation from. I'm happy to be shown otherwise.

Bluesky is not decentralized; they have tons of centralized infrastructure, including all the identity management stuff.

Re: This website is hosted on Bluesky

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Post by Suppafly » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 6:43 PM UTC

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.

>and sooner or later people will try to host arbitrary files on it.

I'm pretty sure that's a key reason that google accounts are limited to 15gb now until you pay for more storage. When it was unlimited there were all these opensource projects coming up with ideas to backup your filesystem to gmail and such which got even worse when Drive came about. These free services need to foresee that that will be an issue and put in some basic limits.