Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
  • thedarkfly@feddit.nl
    20·
    3 days ago

    I’d say that we’re sure it will. It has begun making the same shady practices like redirecting all out going links through go.bsky*app 🙄

    • letraset@feddit.dk
      9·
      3 days ago

      Ah yes, to prove they drive traffic to places, they funnel all outgoing links through themselves for tracking.

    • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      2 days ago

      it’s it really shady when they stated up front they’re doing it so posters and journalists can see where their traffic is coming from?

      • thedarkfly@feddit.nl
        1·
        2 days ago

        Well, if they tell the truth then it’s fine. But no way to know what they do with this redirect (to my knowledge at least).

    • sqgl@beehaw.org
      2·
      3 days ago

      Can you please explain? Is that like the amp prefix or more sinister?

      go.bsky.com does not even exist. Do you mean go.bsky*.com?

      • thedarkfly@feddit.nl
        7·
        3 days ago

        And they reported that it was to gather the referral when going to websites, which constitutes their income. But it’s closed source so we don’t know. It could be tracking and selling the data.