This post is getting up towards 1000 characters, so it'll get split into a thread and the image will be attached to the first post.

All the basic posting stiff works so I'm happy for now. Will add more features as I go.

I can also do some nice things like have higher res images, use html styles like bold and italics (and whatever else I decide to add), and have posts longer than 300 characters.

The idea is simple, if Bluesky goes the same way as Twitter, I can easily swap out the integration to a new service, whilst also retaining all of my posts.

The more ephemeral interactions such as likes and reposts and comments can happen on Bluesky.

The simple answer is that it's a place where my thoughts and images can be posted and stored before being sent off to whichever social media site is popular right now (in this case it's Bluesky). When I post something it goes first to my blog, then it's cross posted to Bluesky.

Cool, thanks for sharing. Looks like I was wrong and likes and follows are also stored on the PDS so that's great! Not that I would do it but I can start to see now how you could create an alternate app view from the data