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Elon does this and charges you for it. I’m good.

The existence of an API is not a determining factor for whether your data can be scraped. This is similar to robots.txt limitations or any other kind of restrictive checkmarks or hashtags. If you post something publicly, you should expect it to be scraped and used.

One way or another, that's just gonna happen! Ain't it? Going analogue the only foolproof way to avoid it.

I'm sure X is already scaping Bluesky.

Who doesn't?

Yes, and? The fact our data can be accessed by everyone and not just the soulless billionaires who control the black box is a feature, not a bug. Same thing happens if you have a blog or a website, it’s gonna get scraped.

Fuck it man; Inject me into the algorithm

WHAT?! You mean if I publicly post on a global social media site other people can see it?!? #laughsincaptainobvious

Let’s be realistic here: if you can see it, you can scrape it. No API needed - just a few simulated browser sessions. The API does make it that much more convenient, though. 🫤

Welcome to the internet

I am hopeful Bluesky will stay true to their origins and continue to try do the right thing when it comes to data privacy. But, you can only do so much when you’re caught in such hyper growth.

Maybe it will make AIs more positive and less biased?

When you post publicly, you lose control of your content. Expect this. If they didn’t have an API, people could just scrape the content.

This is 😞 bad

Oh like basically every other platform on the internet?

Pretty sure this is also possible on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn. You can scrape all that data for sales and lead gen so no reason AI can't scrape it too (not saying I agree, just that it's already available). Go take a look at something like apify.com to see what can be scraped!

Along with every other social media platform... Also, it's not as though someone can't scrape the entire internet. If it's public, it'd scrapable.

Every chatbot reply will have Kendrick and Drake mentioned

Nice hit-piece. How much did Meta and X pay you to write it?

In other words, “posting things publicly on the Internet means other people can read it.”

"Public roads means anyone can stalk you" Come on. Really?

So, is it only okay if big tech companies do this? At least Bluesky has been realistic and transparent in its approach, making an effort to enable users to communicate their consent to developers.

not so fast. maybe there's a way @cloudflare.social blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-a...

But whatever you do online someone is going to be using that data. The only way to stop that is not to go in the internet at all.

Like any other website. Or basically any public content on the Internet. This article is useless.

A good example of the open API is clearsky.app where you can search for any Bluesky handle and see who is blocking them and who they are blocking!