So it turns out the geniuses over at Bluesky trust the client app to fetch, and honestly report, webpage metadata for preview cards, so with a little tinkering in the debug tools you can post whatever news stories you like and they look exactly the sam...
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So it turns out the geniuses over at Bluesky trust the client app to fetch, and honestly report, webpage metadata for preview cards, so with a little tinkering in the debug tools you can post whatever news stories you like and they look exactly the same as real ones.
Andrew (@andrewt.net)
Let's see what happens if I spoof the article metadata from the backend... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/69420
Bluesky Social (bsky.app)
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So it turns out the geniuses over at Bluesky trust the client app to fetch, and honestly report, webpage metadata for preview cards, so with a little tinkering in the debug tools you can post whatever news stories you like and they look exactly the same as real ones.
Andrew (@andrewt.net)
Let's see what happens if I spoof the article metadata from the backend... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/69420
Bluesky Social (bsky.app)
@andrewt tbf that's somewhat minor?
I mean that client is just sending arbitrary posts as well and you could just send wrong URLs that don't fit the text.
idk why you would ever do it that way, but i've seen worse. -
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@andrewt tbf that's somewhat minor?
I mean that client is just sending arbitrary posts as well and you could just send wrong URLs that don't fit the text.
idk why you would ever do it that way, but i've seen worse. -
@ikeacurtains @dat it could, but it sounds like bluesky don't want to do that kind of solution because "the server" could be anyone. you know, because bluesky is """decentralised"""
