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Today, we’re excited to introduce Attie, currently as an invite-only closed beta. Attie is the first agentic social app on atproto. It’s something completely new — an experiment in making building on the protocol more accessible.

Cool! How do we block it?

You cannot since it's using public Bluesky data

You can block its account and people will absolutely make labelers and blockers for stuff on protocols "developed" by it so yea, you really can

It's not currently possible to block a feed from including your posts. Attie is just creating feeds that pull posts from Bluesky in general, which is all public currently. I would like to see the ability to opt-out of feeds, which I don't believe they have yet.

I was more talking about what it seems its end goal is- accounts using that would be blockable. Opting out of feeds is an interesting idea though!

It's a big limitation of ATproto right now, everything is opt-out instead of opt-in. It's built to be open by default.

It seems built insecure and untrustworthy by default. That tracks with adding generative text slop in any way that nobody is asking for.

It's a design decision to prevent one company from owning all of your data. That's the trade off. Also Attie isn't generating any fake posts, it's just gathering existing posts from Bluesky.

I don’t believe they have that goal, as they continue to focus on everything not user-oriented, refusing to develop the stuff users ask for, and being hostile to their users. As for Attie: Why, though? Also I don’t want it to “gather my posts”, even if it determines them “interesting”.