FediThing 🏳️‍🌈
FediThing 🏳️‍🌈  ·  2 weeks ago

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If you click on a link in a Bluesky post, it is now automatically redirected via the domain go.bsky.app before it actually goes to the link in the post. There is no way to stop this or know that it is happening as the redirect only flickers on the screen for a fraction of a second.

Presumably this means Bluesky can now track all link clicking on their platform, including IP addresses, destinations etc?

Or have I misunderstood?

Bluesky is spinning it as a tool for publishers to track referrals, but going beyond the spin it seems to be giving Bluesky access to people's online activity?

#AskFedi#Privacy#BlueSky

Björn Brembs
Björn Brembs  ·  2 months ago

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I've never understood how scientists, in particular, could flee from that Musk place only to take refuge in, wait for it, a Bannon place like #BlueSky. 🤦‍♂️

"On social media, Mastodon is managed and run by the community (e.g., https://neuromatch.social is a server run by neuroscientists) and is robust by design."

https://www.thetransmitter.org/policy/science-must-step-away-from-nationally-managed-infrastructure/

When rogue players multiply, single points of failure are worse than just a gamble.

#openscience is best on the #fediverse

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230207

Defend Democracy 🦋🌊
Defend Democracy 🦋🌊  ·  2 months ago

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@georgetakei

You should link all your posts to the #Bluesky versions. We all need to be united to stop this madness. #Bluesky is three times the size of #Mastodon consisting of 90% #Resistance people

Mastodon Migration
Mastodon Migration  ·  2 months ago

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So, in our ongoing investigation into...

Who Actually Owns Bluesky?

...there is a new mystery to solve.

Three weeks ago the tech press was reporting #Bluesky was about to close a new funding round led by Bain Capital which would value it at $700M. 👀 !!!

https://www.businessinsider.com/x-competitor-bluesky-valuation-new-funding-round-2025-1

Since then, nothing. No information on whether the round closed nor who the investors are.

Anyone know anything?

Before signing up for another corporate honey trap, wouldn't you like to know who owns your future?

Flipboard
Flipboard  ·  4 months ago

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The fediverse has no central authority — which brings both challenges and opportunities for how it's governed. For Dot Social, @mike spoke with @kissane and @darius, two of the smartest people working on this, about the impact of the 2024 U.S. Presidential election on fediverse work, the "Xodus," what needs to be done next, and how to fund and sustain better networks for humans.

Read more about it in this blogpost.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/erin-kissane-and-darius-kazemi/

Listen to the conversation on https://flipboard.video/c/dot_social/videos or wherever you get your podcasts.

#DotSocial#Podcast#Fediverse#Flipboard#OpenSocialWeb#SocialMedia#Tech#SocialWeb#Governance#Federation#Bluesky#ActivityPub#ATProtocol#SocialNetworks

Chema Hernández Gil
Chema Hernández Gil  ·  4 months ago

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I really wish more people acknowledged that content moderation—whether here in the #fedi or on a corporate social network like #Bluesky—is service work that requires individuals to be exposed to terrible, terrible things. The people performing content moderation are providing care work for society and deserve to be compensated accordingly, but rarely are.

If your experience online is mostly free from racism, abuse, and other forms of violent or extreme content, there's a good chance that it's because someone, somewhere, filtered it out for you.
Newsmast Foundation
Newsmast Foundation  ·  4 months ago

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Threads have taken us a bit by surprise this morning!

We've woken up to find that Fediverse accounts can now be followed from Threads (we haven't tried it yet, but that means they can bridge to Bluesky too).

This is HUGE!

To get involved, ensure your server isn't blocking the Threads or Bluesky domains.

To bridge with Bluesky, follow @bsky.brid.gy

#Fediverse#Threads#Mastodon#SocialMedia#SocialWeb#NewSocial#Bluesky

Marta
Marta  ·  5 months ago

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Para periodistas que publican sobre #Bluesky: NO es una red descentralizada. No se puede usar sin control de la empresa Bluesky. Informaos, preguntad; por favor, no difundáis desinformación. 🙏
Ecologia Digital
Ecologia Digital  ·  5 months ago

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"I would like to use #Bluesky. They’ve done a bunch of seriously interesting technical work on moderation and ranking that I truly admire, and I’ve got lots of friends there who really enjoy it.
But I’m not on Bluesky and I don’t have any plans to join it anytime soon. I wrote about this in 2023: I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will."
@pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast
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