So it turns out the geniuses over at Bluesky trust the client app to fetch, and honestly report, webpage metadata for preview cards, so with a little tinkering in the debug tools you can post whatever news stories you like and they look exactly the same as real ones.
anyway so bluesky continue not to fix this nonsense so i am going to keep abusing it until someone does something about it
@andrewt This is why Mastodon has the collective DDoS orbital death laser, because every instance does this individually on the server when a link rolls in. Would be nice if there were a happy medium for this
@lmorchard I mean there is, though, if you're BlueSky, because BlueSky is not in fact decentralised, so they could just fetch the image themselves instead of letting me do it
@andrewt Yeah, that's true, they can avoid being a thundering herd if they're just one critter
@lmorchard @andrewt Mastodon could also do better than this, since Mastodon is not a zero trust environment. Mastodon is a system which is largely *made of* mechanisms for rating actors according to levels of trust! Servers could easily configure "well, mastodon.social, THEM I trust to generate accurate preview cards, but racistfurries.club we don't trust so I'll generate my own"
This is what I like about it here, we admit we are not perfect, and could do things better. Is the discourse forum still up to discuss issues around activity pub / Fediverse, I am sure I was signed up at some point, but not sure what the website is.
