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.

This is probably more about online hygiene than anything else

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.

:'(

Not sure what this is besides a piece of marketing for a closed-source pay-for service.

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.

So not out of place at all on Hacker News?

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

That was humoristic but I guess it's not obvious for everybody.

Soooo we don't like Bluesky now? Ok.

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).

There are some people, particularly in the Minneopolis area, who really need exactly this tool.

do they drive a honda fit

Are you making a joking reference to Haley Stevens hiding her commenting history?

Nah, this is the first I've heard of that.

Can we get the ability to delete posts on Hackers News?

The little "hide" link under each post works for me

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.

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.

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.

You mean like Postiz or Buffer?

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?