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The bluesky API lets you set your post date to anything.

@3psboyd @IceWolf im about to get banned off Bluesky with this knowledge

@3psboyd Yeah the Mastodon API doesn't do it, but when making an ActivityPub implementation from scratch it will be possible (the date has to come from somewhere)

@LivingCooki Got it. I didn't know until just now there was a difference.

@LivingCooki@0w0.is @3psboyd@mastodon.social yeah, this is by design in AP because of: deferred posts, servers that were temporarily offline coming back online and getting a load of posts that were made while it was offline, and post importing.

@LivingCooki @3psboyd yeah but this is akin to being able to do this on mastodon.social

@3psboyd oh yeah, turns out you don't even need an API... just copy the POST request and throw it in powershell lmao

@3psboyd oh hey I know that guy. You can do similar things on ActivityPub!

@3psboyd To be completely fair, if bluesky was actually designed to be federated, time is extremely hard to deal with in federated networks. At the end, you just need to trust one side to set those timestamps correctly, and also not rely on them while displaying message / post order. For example, matrix protocol has the same issue.

@3psboyd this alone makes me want to get on bluesky 💀