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[–] mahifoo@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't sound plausible to me—If they can detect spam links like you're suggesting, why not just mask those links as bsky short links?

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Its easier to do this, so they don't have to go through every post to check if it has a bad link, and if so, to edit it.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

but that’s what indexes are for

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

That wasn't the reason they gave anyway -- they added it so publishers could track outgoing links.