The past two nights I wrote a "thread reader app" for BlueSky.

https://skyview.social

Oh boy. The protocol is absolutely insane. RPC galore, responses are only partially typed. The docs are pretty much useless.

But the "funniest" part is this: there's no privacy. And I don't mean missing DMs.

All your posts are available through API endpoints. Without any authentication. By design.

The "invite-only" thing may have you think otherwise.

Here are my last 100 posts.

https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.repo.listRecords?repo=badlogic.bsky.social&collection=app.bsky.feed.post

https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/111/246/791/778/477/909/original/9070f60b3991b347.png 

 Quite a few people sure were surprised to learn that all their posts can be read without a BlueSky account. Especially those who fled Xitter to be a bit more sheltered from harassers and nazis.

Welp. 

 Bluesky is such a strange hybrid, like the old Mammoth