this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2025
930 points (91.1% liked)

Fediverse memes

1183 readers
327 users here now

Memes about the Fediverse

Other relevant communities:

founded 6 months ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] rekabis@programming.dev 40 points 6 days ago (18 children)

There is a legitimate reason for this: it’s the only way to provide content creators with evidence of how many people actually clicked on the link.

The downside is that there is so many ways that a feature like this can be abused by BlueSky in ways that can hurt users.

[–] hempster@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Trust me bro, we are not tracking you. Please trust me bro!

[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 days ago

If the purpose of this feature was tracking, they could just use a JavaScript onclick handler.

load more comments (16 replies)