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Reminder: Many bsky links require a sign-in, and are, hence, useless to anyone who is not on bluesky.
I am not on bluesky. I have reasons not to be, that I won't bother rehashing for you.
If you want to share things on mastodon, you might want to consider using links that are usable by people who are on mastodon.
Same, same (meaning I agree).
A few days ago I deleted all the social apps on my phone except Mastodon.
I still have my accounts on all the other socials, but have deleted all my content and unfollowed everyone on them.
Going forward I’m only adding truly federated apps.
I have three people I follow here (one bsky.brid.gy), and I get all my news from the empty search feed.
Also unfollowed all Apple Podcasts, but will still listen to one if someone posts a link to one I’m interested in.
I’m much happier now.
Do you complain about links to paywalled pages, generally newspapers, because that's more prevalent.
"Wow, I can't believe they said that! http //bigcorpsite/trackeduser01483463/trackedpost8434?trackyoutoo=now"
You have to click to even know what the post is even saying!
I don't feel like loading up Tor browser, waiting for it to connect, then waiting for the link to slowly load just to see what some random post is even saying!
I wish they'd all come over to Mastodon, but like that the wonky bridging exists at all. Well done makers and maintainers of the bridge!
Do you get the difference?
It's mostly a UI problem with bluesky too — they do warn on the web interface that the link might be unusable without an account, but there's no visual cue about the quoted post.
Mostly nobody is doing this to spite fedi users, I'm sure.
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