An important distinction is that blogs have their own websites and they're not required to publish full articles in their RSS feed.

Bluesky doesn't normally work that way - everything in the PDS gets replicated. They are also encouraging people to put put full blog posts in the PDS for easy replication. So, anyone who wants to index it gets a copy and you have no control over what they do.

You don't have to do it that way, though. You can publish your blog on your own website and just publish links to it on Bluesky.

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pfraze 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Honestly that’s just as much because atproto is a raw data protocol. Putting an http frontend on an atproto account is something we encourage and a lot of folks do. I do that on pfrazee.com for instance, and my leaflet blogposts (which are canonically on atproto) render on my blog.

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kajman an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> So, anyone who wants to index it gets a copy and you have no control over what they do.

How does this differ from scrapers hitting the blog directly?

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skybrian an hour ago | parent [-]

Web pages aren’t digitally signed, aren’t necessarily indexed by search engines, and there are ways to block bots with things like captchas. You also have much more control over the UI. If your blog has comments, you can moderate them, for better or worse.

With a PDS, the replication happens first, before anyone reads it, and the UI is out of your control.

Maybe that’s okay, but people should understand the tradeoffs.

	▲	cavoirom 29 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		How can people control the comments about their blog post on Hacker News? I think my example is closer to what happen in PDS and App View.