Reverse-Engineering Microblog Media: Why Threads Videos Lose Audio and Bluesky CIDs Hide Raw 4K PhotosIf you’ve ever built a social media scraper or media pipeline recently, you probably noticed that the old way of grabbing video URLs—inspecting the DOM for an `og:video` tag or finding a single static2d ago · 2 min readrendexer.hashnode.dev
How AT Protocol (Bluesky) & ActivityPub (Mastodon) Handle HLS Video Streams in the BrowserWhen building media utilities for decentralized social networks like **Bluesky (AT Protocol)**, **Mastodon (ActivityPub)**, and **Threads**, handling video playback and offline archiving in the browseOct 12 · 1 min readrendexer.hashnode.dev
