1000
submitted 6 months ago by flamingos@feddit.uk to c/fedimemes@feddit.uk
(page 2) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] tteok@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] mahifoo@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

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?

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] then_three_more@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Would the URLcheck app on android filter this out, or not because of the way it's being done?

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker/

[-] strict0768@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] maam@feddit.uk 7 points 6 months ago

It's time to delete Bluesky and use Mastodon full time!

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago

How is this technically possible? When I hover over a link, my browser informs me it takes me somewhere; then when I click it, it takes me to go.bluesky. Is the destination changing at the moment the click occurs? Why are they hiding this?

[-] Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 months ago
load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (6 replies)
[-] chapien 6 points 6 months ago

Yeah, this is why BlueSky's openness is always only to a point. I will say it's probably not as bad as some are making it out to be, but it's definitely not something you want to see from a platform purporting to be open. Fortunately this is only a BlueSky thing and not the entire AT Protocol... but at this point, the AT Protocol and BlueSky are inseperable. I mean, are there even any other AT Protocol sites?

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago

Absolutely shocked, no one could have predicted this

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2025
1000 points (100.0% liked)

Fediverse memes

2114 readers
16 users here now

Memes about the Fediverse.

Rules

General
Specific

Elsewhere in the Fediverse

Other relevant communities:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS