I've tried watching it with inverse tone mapping, and while it's very cool, some things that should be down at the diffuse white point get bumped up to the specular range, which kinda takes away from the impact of the insane amount of truly specular and emissive things in that video.

This one stuck out to me as entirely plausible; most likely, it's supposed to say NOT IN SERVICE (the characters line up) but the LED board is broken and not loading the font correctly.

I'm not familiar with this place but if the photo is representative I'd like to move in please.

But also I pretty much exclusively used it for articles and political updates, so a very different use case than the current wave of frustration over the feature is worried about.

Yeah, I've got a folder in Firefox for old Bsky posts before native bookmarks were added.

I can see the anger against the public count of bookmarks on a post, but I don't understand people calling for the whole feature to be removed; if anything it would just give a false sense of security.

In the original thread you pointed me to with "the answers you seek are in the replies," no, but in this thread, yes you have, and I thank you for the clarification.

I hope you also have a lovely day.

For my money, I'd rather someone bookmark my post and me still be able to delete it later than someone screenshot my post and now it lives forever whether I want it to or not.

I could absolutely get behind the option to hide the number of bookmarks, I think it's a dumb idea to begin with.

But if they remove bookmarks entirely, that could give people a false sense of security that their posts can't be saved, which just isn't true.

But it's not "what I personally conceive of as a public platform," it's a fundamental truth of the internet. If you broadcast it to the public, you have zero control over whether someone stores that data. I'm not saying I like it or agree with it, just that it's a technical limitation.

I ask out of genuine curiosity and to understand the arguments at play better, as well as potential solutions.

Seeing the number of bookmarks publicly is a UI choice by Bsky, one that could be changed if people hate it.

Saving things at all is a fundamentally different and more difficult problem.

My question should've been phrased more "is it seeing the numbers publicly that bothers you, or the fact that people can save things at all?" Your replies just generally imply people are upset by it, I was hoping for clarification on which part specifically.

I have seen some people (not you) over the past few weeks of discourse on the subject suggest that bookmarking as a function should be removed entirely. And to my eyes, that just betrays a lack of understanding of the level of control the platform actually has over what people do with the data.

And while I quoted your post, it wasn't directed towards you. But in the replies of your thread and in others, I've seen people upset at the entire concept of being able to save a post for later, which is fundamentally at odds with posting something on a public forum.

Maybe I missed it in the two times I read through the replies, but I didn't see your "don't want to see a reminder" point explicitly stated as that vs. frustration with the mechanic as a whole, which is why I asked the clarifying question.

Well the reason I asked was because it wasn't clearly defined, in your thread or in any of the others I've seen on the topic, whether the issue was with the visible number of bookmarks, or with the overall concept of bookmarks as a function.

If the goal is to remove bookmarks, I think that's counter-productive and would cause more problems than it solves as people are pushed to use other, less official, less controllable means.

If the goal is just to hide the number on your posts so you don't have to see it, by all means!

Refining my phrasing a bit: whether or not the feature is built into the app, people will always be able to save posts. Removing the feature would just push people to use web browser bookmarks, or worse, download images / screenshot the post (which then means they have a copy you can't take down).

I personally operate under the assumption of "once I put something online, I lose control over it," which is why my photography is always watermarked. Even that doesn't solve the problem, people can crop it out if they're motivated enough, but that's the price I pay for putting my work out there.

While again, lowering friction will always increase the rate at which something happens, even without bookmarks in the app any sufficiently motivated person will always be able to find a way to save content for later.