Anything under direct corporate control will enshittify. It has nothing to do with mission, values, direction, purpose, or any other bullshit in the charter of a service. If it is controlled by an entity with shareholders turning a profit, it will enshittify, because those shareholders will demand ever increasing profit for their investments. It is a one-way process.
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This doesn't even make sense.
If you are on their domain they can see the things you click on, this is how websites and cookies work.
This isn't nefarious, it's the raving delusions of a tech illiterate idiot.
No.
You can see a link was loaded in the page. Link tracking is still needed to know if the link was clicked.
It can be an "on click" JavaScript event, or a redirect to a tracking site.
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This has absolutely nothing to do with enshittification. Bluesky doesn't need that redirect to know what you're clicking on. You're already on their platform, they can already track every single click that you do while on Bluesky including navigating to outbound links. I'm a bit shocked that nobody here is calling that out to be honest
FUD is the name of the rage bait game.
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How is this enshittification? As far as an end user is aware nothing has changed right?
Literally nothing. Sure, twitter used its similar t.co links to throttle sites, but bsky isn't doing this, and if they did, someone could fork the app and people could start using that instead.
Absolutely shocked, no one could have predicted this
I, for one, am shocked that moving from one corporate owned social media to another corporate owned social media didn't fundamentally change anything.
There's no way I'm joining. Give it a little time, it will be a festering boil.
Edit to add I've never used Twitter either. They just seem like they're designed to promote conflicts. I have enough of that in my life already. I'll stand by my prediction though.
You mean the company that was created by the worst of pre-Musk Twitter leadership, that claims to be open source and federated but actually isn't, that uses AI to moderate itself, and that has a policy that lets AI scrapers use your posts is actually bad? I'm shocked. Shocked!
Eh. Doesn't seem too bad, but then again, I haven't made an account there because of it not really being decentralized enough for my taste.
Seems kinda dumb to go from one centralized service like X to another. Bluesky's claims of being decentralized are highly exaggerated.
But anyone with a few million bucks can federate!
A small loan from ones father, a garage and a dream, like how all billionaires started.
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/s
Why is it so expensive to federate Bluesky?
Why is it so expensive to federate Bluesky?
Mostly because it depends on certain centralized services. You can create your own apps and even host your own content, but the discovery and distribution system has a copy of every post so that it is easy to access by everyone. The positive side is that you don't have to worry about missing replies in the conversation since their centralized database has a copy of it. The downside is that hosting such a massive database is expensive.
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There's no guarantee that anything will use your shiny new relay anyway.
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Would the URLcheck app on android filter this out, or not because of the way it's being done?
The urlcheck app will just show the bluesvp link. Unshorting it will have the same result (because you need to fetch the url to find out where it redirects to), though might be slightly better wrt not capturing browser cookies and thus not identifying you. Maybe.