The concept of "mutuals" is fundamentally "influencer"-centric. A person who doesn't judge themselves by their follower count only suffers from refusing to follow an account that doesn't follow them back.
"See who your real friends are" is confused branding that conflates two unrelated user domains.
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!
I'm out of the loop why are we raising our pitchforks this time? Or is this astroturf?
There are plenty of reasons someone might want or need to scrub/obfuscate their online identity regardless of the platform.
The concept of "mutuals" is fundamentally "influencer"-centric. A person who doesn't judge themselves by their follower count only suffers from refusing to follow an account that doesn't follow them back.
"See who your real friends are" is confused branding that conflates two unrelated user domains.
Not sure what this is besides a piece of marketing for a closed-source pay-for service.
So not out of place at all on Hacker News?
There are some people, particularly in the Minneopolis area, who really need exactly this tool.
do they drive a honda fit
instead of wasting time with tools like this
why not create tools that help people auto-crosspost from Threads to Bluesky, etc.
Opposite goals. This is a tool for having less posts on Bluesky, not more.
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!
Why can't I host this locally?