Bluesky already doing enshittification
Bluesky already doing enshittification
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As someone who ran a popular link shortening platform let me tell you how difficult it is to curtail spam links.
This is likely a way to warn users before being forwarded to fraudulent websites that a link has been marked as spam.
There are many other use cases for this redirect as well but this is the most obvious for user safety.
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Doesn't sound plausible to me—If they can detect spam links like you're suggesting, why not just mask those links as bsky short links?
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Its easier to do this, so they don't have to go through every post to check if it has a bad link, and if so, to edit it.
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but that’s what indexes are for
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That wasn't the reason they gave anyway -- they added it so publishers could track outgoing links.
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