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)
It is a user setting and quite a reasonable one at that, in Pike's case in particular.
Yeah, I'm not creating an account to read a post.
Twitter/X at least allows you to read a single post.
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.