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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

but that’s what indexes are for

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

That wasn't the reason they gave anyway -- they added it so publishers could track outgoing links.