I'm out of the loop why are we raising our pitchforks this time? Or is this astroturf?
kev009 23 hours ago [-]
There are plenty of reasons someone might want or need to scrub/obfuscate their online identity regardless of the platform.
Aboutplants 22 hours ago [-]
This is probably more about online hygiene than anything else
jauntywundrkind 21 hours 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 23 hours ago [-]
Not sure what this is besides a piece of marketing for a closed-source pay-for service.
pirhoo 21 hours ago [-]
Since when it's a problem to showcase your work on HN? Also the service is free for the majority of users. Only big accounts have to pay because processing huge list is heavy.
F3nd0 23 hours ago [-]
So not out of place at all on Hacker News?
BugsJustFindMe 22 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
pirhoo 21 hours ago [-]
That was humoristic but I guess it's not obvious for everybody.
self_awareness 22 hours ago [-]
Soooo we don't like Bluesky now? Ok.
pirhoo 21 hours ago [-]
We love Bluesky! This tool is for people who like to clean up footprints of their online presence some time to time, no to get rid of it (no needs for a new tool for that).
22 hours ago [-]
jon128 22 hours ago [-]
There are some people, particularly in the Minneopolis area, who really need exactly this tool.
nazgulsenpai 22 hours ago [-]
do they drive a honda fit
Alive-in-2025 22 hours ago [-]
Are you making a joking reference to Haley Stevens hiding her commenting history?
nazgulsenpai 21 hours ago [-]
Nah, this is the first I've heard of that.
ck2 23 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 23 hours ago [-]
Opposite goals. This is a tool for having less posts on Bluesky, not more.
pirhoo 21 hours ago [-]
You mean like Postiz or Buffer?
izzydata 22 hours ago [-]
Can we get the ability to delete posts on Hackers News?
axus 22 hours ago [-]
The little "hide" link under each post works for me
izzydata 22 hours 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.
axus 20 hours ago [-]
This topic is now buried, but I guess you'll see comment replies.
The "hide" link is visible on the main page, before you go to the comments. Example for the current #1:
Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen (rikiyat.github.io)
1106 points by dbreunig 3 hours ago | flag | hide | 348 comments
If you want to delete your own submissions, I don't see a way to do that.
pirhoo 24 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 22 hours ago [-]
Why can't I host this locally?
Rendered at 17:42:00 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.
The "hide" link is visible on the main page, before you go to the comments. Example for the current #1:
Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen (rikiyat.github.io)
1106 points by dbreunig 3 hours ago | flag | hide | 348 comments
If you want to delete your own submissions, I don't see a way to do that.
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!