Paul Frazee: you can now embed your posts in web pages! (the "embed" tool is available on web only at the moment) this does respect your "only logged in users can see this" settings. shout out to @samuel.bsky.team @bnewbold.net @danabra.mov @haileyok.com for getting this done

you can now embed your posts in web pages! (the "embed" tool is available on web only at the moment) this does respect your "only logged in users can see this" settings. shout out to @samuel.bsky.team @bnewbold.net @danabra.mov @haileyok.com for getting this done

alt text 1: the post menu on the web app, looking at jay's post. "Embed post" is hovered alt text 2: the "Embed post" menu. "Embed this post in your website. Simply copy the snippet and paste it into the HTML code of your website." The code is shown in an input with a "Copy code" button

alt text 3: the embed HTML code in a text editor alt text 4: a picture of Jay's post embedded in a web page sorry folks, I went "oh no!" when I pressed the post button

if only there was a feature! dangnabbit.

Yes! Please! I went to edit alt-text after I send out the post. Facebook let's you do that. It's, like, the ONE good thing about Facebook.

I was referring to the feature that requires alt text before posting, which paul isn't using smh

Devs not having the nag on. My my...

I like how instead of ripping you out of the current tab you're in to another one to copy the embed code like with Twitter, it's all done in the same tab

fantastic! hopefully this gives Bluesky higher visibility across the web

it perfectly recreates all the Twitter functionality, flaw for flaw!

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btw i do appreciate it. thanks, it should get bluesky out there. (maybe @rusty.todayintabs.com will switch from screenshots? since they’ve been embedding lots lately?)

sorry, i was hoping for embeds to stay as they were at the time. nothing like going to an old article and find an embed where the profile pic is now a swastika, the name is changed to “1488 hh!”… or worse yet deleted with no other context (which, i get but i also have crazy ideas around deletion)

we totally get that, but on the other hand we should respect user intent here - if someone wants their post deleted, it seems reasonable we’d delete it everywhere

also... what happens if/when you add editing? are you going to version skeets so that the original remains embedded?

Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but given that the text of the post, author's name, date etc are all included in the HTML, won't that all still remain on the webpage even when the post is deleted on Bsky? 🤔 That's how embedded tweets work now afaik, the images disappear but the text remains

(and there i go deleting a skeet) yeah i get that it’s not easy just makes the feature a little less useful if you’re a journalist who cares about those sort of things (they really should just always re-establish context in their text, IMHO and… never embed, but again i got weird ideas)

Looking forward to NYT opinion pieces with embedded Alf skeets.

Paul when is Bluesky sending us all a free cat?

they're already sent, available for pickup at your local shelters

thank you!

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Picked mine up at the Seattle city shelter a few weeks ago! Thanks for sending him along! bsky.app/profile/gor-...

Gor Gor unfortunately passed away last week. But we have a new buddy, Henry. He's 19 pounds of love. #cat #cats #catsofbluesky

henry!

we are starting very conservative and matching the public web hiding/bluring of adult content images

Go team!

If everything on Bluesky is public, what's the logic behind respecting the "only logged-in users can see this" setting?

friction matters

Honey, you have no idea.

Cool, that's what I thought but wanted to confirm.

It makes us feel safe. 😉

But is that feeling accurate? It's just a curious technical and design challenge.

I call this the two-way window problem Houses have windows. The expectation is that people on glance inside occasionally, while people inside are free to look out. But there’s nothing technically stopping people from targeting cameras into your house 24/7, so what’s the security model?

Info security tends to focus pretty hard on minimizing any potential for exposure. You might make an argument that, as long as it’s two way there’s absolutely no point in trying to stop people from looking in. You need to address that it’s two way instead. And that’s not an unreasonable argument

Makes people feel safe like a cross walk does.

Okay, it's great that you're shouting them all out in a skeet, but I hope you bought them all cupcakes to thank them for their hard work too.

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@pfrazee.com where’s my cupcake??

it’s been delivered to your local bakery. head over there to pick it up

Yayyy :D

Found mine, in my oven !! Needed some makings, doings and baking, and then Voilà !! Cupcakes !! Thanks Bluesky !!

Now we're all asking the important questions.

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Someone embed my skeets plz

Love that this uses blockquote and a data attribute instead of an iframe, I don’t think I’ve seen that before

Comes with a script which converts it into an iframe when it loads! The blockquote is a fallback for if you don’t have JavaScript enabled

I think it's similar to Twitter's one, isn't it?

yep :)

the thing is with iframes is that you can't have an iframe without javascript - the stuff inside the iframe needs JS to work, and you need JS to set the height of the iframe to the height of the content (its a pain) - so it's better to have a blockquote fallback

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