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Bluesky is a proprietary service operated by a single company, but with an unusually good "API" for plug-in 3rdparty tools. As with other sites that previously had "API"s, that API remains valid only as long as—and only in the ways which—the parent company feels like them being allowed to work. https://oldfriends.live/@paul/113541079428044213
If you read the bluesky developer documentation, you'll find lots of verbiage asserting something different from the above. But I assert my frame is closer to accurate than theirs
@mcc Twitter was also a “proprietary service operated by a single company, but with an unusually good ‘API’ for plug-in 3rdparty tools” until they dramatically locked it down in May 2012 and banned third-party clients.
I remember that moment well. It led to a wave of migration to a federated, open-source alternative: Tent.
For a moment I really thought Tent was gonna change the world. Fun time capsule now: https://scott.mn/2012/10/20/tent/
