This has absolutely nothing to do with enshittification. Bluesky doesn't need that redirect to know what you're clicking on. You're already on their platform, they can already track every single click that you do while on Bluesky including navigating to outbound links. I'm a bit shocked that nobody here is calling that out to be honest
Mastodon is dead, unusable, and left a bad taste in the public's mouth. The fediverse is good for some things. But a miroblogging site where people need news fast? No.
Bluesky has already become the replacement for Twitter, and it's off to a great start. I tried mastodon, I had 3 accounts, I used it as much as I could, but as soon as I got an invite for bluesky, I stopped using it. There is no content I wish to see on mastodon.
This has absolutely nothing to do with enshittification. Bluesky doesn't need that redirect to know what you're clicking on. You're already on their platform, they can already track every single click that you do while on Bluesky including navigating to outbound links. I'm a bit shocked that nobody here is calling that out to be honest
Just because they have other means of doing link tracking doesn't mean they aren't using this link proxying to track stuff.
So why?
Facebook does the same, even in their own in-app browser to keep tracking you.