Comment on Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down
Ulrich@feddit.org 17 hours agoIt 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.
Delusion6903@discuss.online 16 hours 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 12 hours ago
fediversereport.com/bluesky-censorship-and-countr…
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 10 hours 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.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 hours ago
I think if there’s anything we’ve learned at this point, it’s that it’s extremely hard to get users to leave a platform they have connections on. That’s always the plan.
Delusion6903@discuss.online 10 hours ago
I guess I don’t care that much at this point but I’m out as soon as I see the first ad.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 hours ago
Why wait? Why continue contributing value and investing in the platform? The longer you wait, the harder it becomes.