the potential future of the AT protocol is the main idea i thought made it differentiate itself... also twitter locking users out if they don't have an account, and bluesky not doing so... but i guess thats no longer true?

I just don't understand that choice for either platform, is the intent not, biggest reach possible? locking potential viewers out is such a direct contradiction of that.

edit: seems its user choice to force login to view a post, which changes my mind significantly on if its a bad platform decision.

Bluesky is not locking anyone out. This is literally a user setting to not display their account without logging in. It's off by default.

And yes, you can still inspect the post itself over the AT protocol: https://pdsls.dev/at://robpike.io/app.bsky.feed.post/3matwg6...

It's a setting on BlueSky, that the user can enable for their own account, and for people of prominence who don't feel like dealing with drive by trolls all day, I think it's very reasonable. One is a money grab, and the other is giving power to the user.

X went back on that quite some time ago. Have a bird post: https://x.com/GuGi263/status/2002306730609287628

(You won't be able to read replies, or browse to the user's post feed, but you can at least see individual tweets. I still wrap links with s/x/fxtwitter/ though since it tends to be a better preview in e.g. discord.)

For bluesky, it seems to be a user choice thing, and a step between full-public and only-followers.