It was always going to be this way. It didn’t take long to see the signs of enshittification on BSky. They were subpoenaed for user info, they banned journalists, implemented age verification, and I left when they started adding link redirects and tracking.
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Delusion6903@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
That’s all the talk so far? It feels like a bad sign to me when power starts moving from the true believers to the VCs.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Delusion6903@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
They banned journalists? Who?
And I didn’t know about the redirects and tracking either. They are doing that without ads?
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
fediversereport.com/bluesky-censorship-and-countr…
And I didn’t know about the redirects and tracking either. They are doing that without ads?
Don’t take my word for it. Try it for yourself. Open any link and the link you clicked is redirected back to a BSky domain.
DomeGuy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The claimed reason for that is to highlight “referrer” links for the sites people go to from bsky.
My understanding is that if you click like www.themarysue.com the website operators would see a “feddit.org” or “lemmy.world” referer if you’re using a web browser and don’t have a defeating option enabled, but not if your browser is locked down or you use an app. The immediate redirects, however, do consistently show in the web site’s access logs.
It’s possible bsky could fuck around with this in the future, but doing so risks just sending users to a pseudo-fork like blacksky.
Delusion6903@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
I guess I don’t care that much at this point but I’m out as soon as I see the first ad.
andybytes@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
What goes up must come down… watch in the _ tech bro future_ we will be bailing out social media companies just like the airlines. Alway making a good thing bad.
Delusion6903@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
They may fail but we better not be bailing them out!
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Which is why “Not for profit” organisations are such a good thing. They are harder to get going but because they are not investment vehicles in the same way you don’t have CEOs installed just to maximise share value. Decisions are focused on what the company needs to perform its mission.
ChaosSpectre@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The American Healthcare system fully disagrees with your statement, as they actively exploit non-profit status to avoid taxes and squeeze any “profits” into bonuses for the people at the top. They aren’t even the only industry doing this, but it all boils down to a piss poor lack of regulation and enforcement that really lets companies exploit non-profit structures.
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Certainly things can be open to abuse, and different regulatory systems have different loop holes. However I have seen examples where it’s been a good thing.
nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
USAmerica is just corrupt country that non-profit is just a way to avoid taxes.
Most of parts of the world won’t let non-profit to be turned that way.