Nostr Web Client

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

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

Mario Zechner 2y ago

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.

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Mario Zechner 2y ago

For all its faults, Mastodon is the better platform for people who care about having control over their data. It's definitely not perfect in that regard either, but at least it tries.

Also, it has GIFs and videos and polls. Based on BlueSky's dev velocity, they'll have that sometime 2032.

Disturbia 2y ago

we have all that in nostr too sir. plus it is fediverse compatible

StephanGuy 2y ago

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