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29 Mar

You cannot since it's using public Bluesky data

Wait, it shows any public Bluesky data? So it doesn't respect signals like "don't show my posts to logged out users?" It won't respect quote detachments? Will it show you posts from users who have blocked your account? It'll bypass Bluesky moderation !hide labels?

Every single visibility and privacy control on this website is operating over public data. It all depends on clients being willing to voluntarily care about user signals. Does Attie keep that voluntary contract? If it doesn't, that's a problem.

And If does keep that contract, and if it is literally being developed by the Bluesky devs and they have full control over its front-end code, why can't we have a user signal to keep our posts from showing up inside of Attie?

For the feed generation, I'd assume they're just pulling posts like the Photography or Artists: Trending feeds do. These all get rendered in the app so blocks, and other rules apply. I haven't seen what "agentic social media" features they're working on but I'm assuming they'd just use pub data

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Bluesky is more like a personal website host than a closed social media like Facebook or Twitter so any of the visibility flags they make are more of a suggestion. E.g. there are other clients that ignore blocks completely and don't respect the "logged out" flags.

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For instance, our posts are publicly accessible to anyone on the open internet. Which includes anyone that might want to scrape them for AI usage, the same as if your personal website was being indexed by Google. shaggymane.us-west.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atp...

I know this. And yet, Bluesky (the website bsky.app) will not show your posts to logged out users if you check that option. 1st-party clients served from Bluesky's servers and downloaded officially from Bluesky in the app store, are respecting those signals. Is Attie different?

They're making feeds, which are rendered in Bsky. so yes

I know this. But those other clients are 3rd-party clients. Bluesky can't control what they do. This is a *1st-party client*. If it ignores those suggestions, it's because the Bluesky devs themselves decided to ignore them. We're not talking about an independent fork.

Yeah no worries, I saw your other follow up. I reply to a lot of different people with various understandings of the site, so apologies if I over simplify things out of habit. tl;dr They can and should set the standards for opt-outs, but there's some conflicting messaging right now

This app has access to my profile, because my profile is public data. So if there was a lexicon addition "don't show my posts in agentic clients", there is no technical reason at all that the app couldn't see that flag, and respect it - given that it is not a 3rd-party app. Right?