It’s completely optional and disabled by default, I can’t believe there are big enough losers to actually enable it on their own accounts. And of course it is stupid that it’s a “feature” in the first place.
I mean i can kinda see a use for it to like stop people from off the site harassing you more easily, maybe, but I’d solve that by not being a bluesky posting lanyard in the first place
That’s the stated use case. But all you have to do is either view the post with an account, or use a service like xcancel that uses an account to load it on your behalf. For example, here’s the post from this thread: https://subium.com/profile/shoe.bsky.social/post/3mhswyoeqqk2e
Also the username is in the URL, so someone just has to look the person up!
yeah but adding a step in between does stop lazy people from doing a thing even if it doesn’t stop dedicated harassment, I’m just saying i could see that angle but also think it sucks
Oh of course bluesky is copying one of the more hated Elon additions to Twitter
It’s completely optional and disabled by default, I can’t believe there are big enough losers to actually enable it on their own accounts. And of course it is stupid that it’s a “feature” in the first place.
The fact that it’s a feature is mind blowing
I mean i can kinda see a use for it to like stop people from off the site harassing you more easily, maybe, but I’d solve that by not being a bluesky posting lanyard in the first place
That’s the stated use case. But all you have to do is either view the post with an account, or use a service like xcancel that uses an account to load it on your behalf. For example, here’s the post from this thread: https://subium.com/profile/shoe.bsky.social/post/3mhswyoeqqk2e
Also the username is in the URL, so someone just has to look the person up!
And here’s the profile: https://subium.com/profile/shoe.bsky.social
yeah but adding a step in between does stop lazy people from doing a thing even if it doesn’t stop dedicated harassment, I’m just saying i could see that angle but also think it sucks