{"id":691,"date":"2023-10-16T00:43:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T22:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/?p=691"},"modified":"2023-10-16T07:44:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T05:44:50","slug":"all-bluesky-content-is-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/2023\/10\/16\/all-bluesky-content-is-public\/","title":{"rendered":"All Bluesky content is public"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Created by Bing AI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Needing an invite to join, the apps, etc. all gives a certain sense of privacy over on Blueskye<\/a>. But that’s just show. The API that powers the app is publicly available, no authentication needed. Every post made on Bluesky can be queried publicly by everyone, even without having an invite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mario Zechner<\/a> has demonstrated this well with his low-effort (but amazing!) tool Skyview<\/a> (source-code available on Github<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a pure client-side web application that requires the link to a Bluesky posting as input and then renders the entire discussion thread around it. Pure client-side, no server, no authentication. Amazing!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Screenshot of Skyview with one of my own postings (in German), reminding about the lack of privacy of postings on Bluesky.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

That’s not a problem in itself, but just keep it in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Needing an invite to join, the apps, etc. all gives a certain sense of privacy over on Blueskye. But that’s just show. The API that powers the app is publicly available, no authentication needed. Every post made on Bluesky can be queried publicly by everyone, even without having an invite. Mario Zechner has demonstrated this … Continue reading “All Bluesky content is public”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[251,249,94],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-internet","tag-atproto","tag-bluesky","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}