Bluesky is already known for promoting hatred and smear campaigns, but also spreads dangerous misinformation and uses X AI Grok as an excuse to promote itself. Unfortunately, only half the truth is told. For example, there is no mention of the fact that Bluesky’s alleged “security measures” are based solely on JavaScript and can be circumvented by simply manipulating the CSS via the browser’s developer tools. For example with the account from Suzallea:
Open your developer tools and change some DOM elements:
And the profile will be visible:
Another very good example is the download of 2 million posts that were simply pulled via the API, as the user AlpinDale published on X, and contained all the information. This included direct links to images that can be easily used by bots such as Google AI, Microsoft Bing, ImageSift, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Grok2, etc. to train artificial intelligence with.
The full dataset is downloadable at huggingface.co (Alternative download)
Bluesky’s response came very quickly and promptly suspended AlpinDale’s profile: