if everything is public by default, then you will never have the fedi-style fights over implementations that respect or don't respect privacy settings. masterful gambit, bluesky pbc.

@luna i wanna see how bluesky pbc reacts when someone makes an appview that pulls app.bsky data but explicitly neglects to check blocks and quote retractions and other similar things

@trwnh i have the feeling they would just ignore it, just like anyone else

the existence of an appview which doesnt respect capabilities is basically a given, but youd also need to get enough userbase to actually have an appview which people worry about. if evilbsky dot app had 10 users that kept making records that nobody on bsky dot app sees, then evilbsky is a random nobody

this does assume everyone knows everything in network is public, which underlines a lot of my statements on the network. im not fully sure that ppl understand the implications of everything being public, incl. blocks

@luna blockbot for bsky when