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When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines

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768 points cyndunlop | 2 comments | 19 Feb 25 17:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.452s | source
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knallfrosch ◴[19 Feb 25 18:43 UTC] No.43105732[source]▶
Anyone following hundreds of thousands of users is obviously a bot account scraping content. I'd ban them and call it a day.

However, I do love reading about the technical challenge. I think Twitter has a special architecture for celebrities with millions of followers. Given Bluesky is a quasi-clone, I wonder why they did not follow in these footsteps.

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1. psionides ◴[19 Feb 25 18:59 UTC] No.43105931[source]▶
You don't need to follow anyone (or even have an account) to scrape content… Someone following a huge amount of accounts usually wants to get a lot of followers quickly this way through follow-backs.
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2. mikemitchelldev ◴[20 Feb 25 13:34 UTC] No.43114441[source]▶
Yes, and Starter Packs make this possible.