gregarious canid. avatar by ISANANIKA.
got an email from bluesky. they got a new logo and everything is visible to the public web now (opt-out only). they also added lists. "oh good, I can put my friends who went to Bluesky on a list and see just their posts, to keep up," I think.
not so fast! lists are public. so if I make a list of my best friends, everyone on the entire world wide web will know who my friends are
damn website is designed and run by mutants
i think in a way it's a blessing, given how they still compress images like shit, they'd be capable of shipping gifs by compressing them at 20% quality or something
i think the alt front-end https://deck.blue/ may have a private list implementation but that doesn't share with any other app of course.
the public list stuff and public blocks are so weird. like nire said, there are crypto design decisions showing
there are programmable lists/feeds though, like lists that only include member's posts when tagged with a 🧪, or a dynamic list that shows posts by your quieter follows. i also don't see bluesky ever being meaningfully federated, just the super huge main instance (with people using custom domain handles) and a only a handful of super nerds with personal servers.
List have been a thing there, and have been public for quite a while now
Mostly for the purpose of public blocklists
(Who decides who goes on a specific list? Whoever created the list of course)
