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bangaladoreyesterday at 7:00 AM4 repliesview on HN

Must sign in to read? Wow bluesky has already enshittified faster than expected.

(for the record, the downvoters are the same people who would say this to someone who linked a twitter post, they just don't realize that)


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epistasisyesterday at 7:05 AM

It's a non-default choice by the user to require login to view. It's quite rare to find users who do that, but if I were Rob Pike I'd seriously consider doing it too.

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michaelsshawyesterday at 7:11 AM

It is a user setting and quite a reasonable one at that, in Pike's case in particular.

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mlrtimeyesterday at 11:07 AM

Yeah, I'm not creating an account to read a post.

Twitter/X at least allows you to read a single post.