Byesky: Wipe your Bluesky account clean (byesky.pirhoo.com)

23 pointsby pirhoo2 hours ago17 comments

techmunky 2 hours ago

I'm out of the loop why are we raising our pitchforks this time? Or is this astroturf?

kev009 an hour ago

There are plenty of reasons someone might want or need to scrub/obfuscate their online identity regardless of the platform.

Aboutplants 27 minutes ago

This is probably more about online hygiene than anything else

vvpan an hour ago

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

F3nd0 an hour ago

So not out of place at all on Hacker News?

BugsJustFindMe an hour ago

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

self_awareness an hour ago

Soooo we don't like Bluesky now? Ok.

jon128 an hour ago

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

nazgulsenpai an hour ago

do they drive a honda fit

Alive-in-2025 26 minutes ago

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

izzydata 36 minutes ago

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

axus 28 minutes ago

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

izzydata 24 minutes ago

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.

ck2 an hour ago

instead of wasting time with tools like this

why not create tools that help people auto-crosspost from Threads to Bluesky, etc.

F3nd0 an hour ago

Opposite goals. This is a tool for having less posts on Bluesky, not more.

pirhoo 2 hours ago

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!

lapetitejort an hour ago

Why can't I host this locally?