I'm out of the loop why are we raising our pitchforks this time? Or is this astroturf?
kev009 2 hours ago [-]
There are plenty of reasons someone might want or need to scrub/obfuscate their online identity regardless of the platform.
Aboutplants 1 hours ago [-]
This is probably more about online hygiene than anything else
jauntywundrkind 19 minutes ago [-]
A lot of people really like deleting themselves from the lightcone. For whatever reason the negative perspective on how it might affect them or what it might say or show or who might benefit from seeing them: people keep wanting to delete themselves from the world.
:'(
vvpan 2 hours ago [-]
Not sure what this is besides a piece of marketing for a closed-source pay-for service.
F3nd0 2 hours ago [-]
So not out of place at all on Hacker News?
BugsJustFindMe 1 hours ago [-]
The concept of "mutuals" is fundamentally influencer-centric. A person who uses their account for reading rather than just posting only hurts themself by refusing to follow an account that doesn't follow them back.
"See who your real friends are" is either:
1) confused branding that conflates two unrelated user domains
2) grossly and manipulatively trying to make people feel bad by pushing the idea that following means friendship and needs to be reciprocal
self_awareness 1 hours ago [-]
Soooo we don't like Bluesky now? Ok.
1 hours ago [-]
jon128 2 hours ago [-]
There are some people, particularly in the Minneopolis area, who really need exactly this tool.
nazgulsenpai 1 hours ago [-]
do they drive a honda fit
Alive-in-2025 1 hours ago [-]
Are you making a joking reference to Haley Stevens hiding her commenting history?
nazgulsenpai 30 minutes ago [-]
Nah, this is the first I've heard of that.
izzydata 1 hours ago [-]
Can we get the ability to delete posts on Hackers News?
axus 1 hours ago [-]
The little "hide" link under each post works for me
izzydata 58 minutes ago [-]
I am not seeing anything that can hide or delete posts on HN. If you are talking about the minus button that is to collapse post threads. Other people can still read your posts.
ck2 2 hours ago [-]
instead of wasting time with tools like this
why not create tools that help people auto-crosspost from Threads to Bluesky, etc.
F3nd0 2 hours ago [-]
Opposite goals. This is a tool for having less posts on Bluesky, not more.
pirhoo 3 hours ago [-]
Hi HN, I'm Pierre!
Byesky is a toolbox I created last year for cleaning up your Bluesky account, or erasing it altogether:
- Unfollow the accounts that don't follow you back, or unfollow everyone except the ones you lock
- Disappearing posts: tag a post #vanish (or #) and it gets deleted after a delay you pick
- Weekly auto-clean, and a list of who unfollowed you
- Nuke my account: deletes everything you ever created
- And more to come!
How it works: you log in with Bluesky's own OAuth (ATProto), so Byesky never sees your password. The web app only queues jobs. Background workers do the deleting, and when Bluesky's rate limit kicks in, a job pauses and picks up where it left off once the limit resets. A big account is tens of thousands of deletions, so a full cleaning tasks run for a long time with a progress screen.
The basics are free for accounts with up to 5,000 follows and followers.
To help me cover server costs, a Plus subscription (€3/month) covers bigger accounts and adds the heavier tools, including the nuke.
I'm finally doing a proper launch au the tool and I'd love feedback, especially from anyone who has left a social network and wished they'd had this!
lapetitejort 1 hours ago [-]
Why can't I host this locally?
Rendered at 20:49:35 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
:'(
"See who your real friends are" is either:
1) confused branding that conflates two unrelated user domains
2) grossly and manipulatively trying to make people feel bad by pushing the idea that following means friendship and needs to be reciprocal
why not create tools that help people auto-crosspost from Threads to Bluesky, etc.
Byesky is a toolbox I created last year for cleaning up your Bluesky account, or erasing it altogether:
- Unfollow the accounts that don't follow you back, or unfollow everyone except the ones you lock
- Disappearing posts: tag a post #vanish (or #) and it gets deleted after a delay you pick
- Weekly auto-clean, and a list of who unfollowed you
- Nuke my account: deletes everything you ever created
- And more to come!
How it works: you log in with Bluesky's own OAuth (ATProto), so Byesky never sees your password. The web app only queues jobs. Background workers do the deleting, and when Bluesky's rate limit kicks in, a job pauses and picks up where it left off once the limit resets. A big account is tens of thousands of deletions, so a full cleaning tasks run for a long time with a progress screen.
The basics are free for accounts with up to 5,000 follows and followers.
To help me cover server costs, a Plus subscription (€3/month) covers bigger accounts and adds the heavier tools, including the nuke.
I'm finally doing a proper launch au the tool and I'd love feedback, especially from anyone who has left a social network and wished they'd had this!