flamingos-cant@feddit.ukM to Fediverse memes@feddit.ukEnglish · 14 天前Bluesky already doing enshittificationfeddit.ukimagemessage-square248fedilinkarrow-up11.03Kfile-textcross-posted to: BoycottUnitedStates@europe.pub
arrow-up11.03KimageBluesky already doing enshittificationfeddit.ukflamingos-cant@feddit.ukM to Fediverse memes@feddit.ukEnglish · 14 天前message-square248fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: BoycottUnitedStates@europe.pub
minus-squaretteok@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·13 天前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.
minus-squareAirportline@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·13 天前They announced it was for publishers
minus-squaremahifoo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·13 天前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?
minus-squareirelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·13 天前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.
minus-squareirelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 天前That wasn’t the reason they gave anyway – they added it so publishers could track outgoing links.
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.
They announced it was for publishers
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?
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.
but that’s what indexes are for
That wasn’t the reason they gave anyway – they added it so publishers could track outgoing links.