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   Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 24-Aug-2025 07:19:57 JST Mastodon Migration

   #Bluesky Users: Pack Your Corporate Social Media Go Bag

   Have an escape plan!

   Yesterday all users in Mississippi were cut off. No notice.

   As now repeatedly demonstrated, centralized corporate platforms are vulnerable. Will you be ready when it's your turn to be shut down?

   Have a plan to evacuate to Public Social Media. Create an account on #Mastodon and use it as a secondary. You might even find you like it.

   Be prepared. Begin building your online presence free from corporate overlords.

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   Mark T. Tomczak (mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)'s status on Saturday, 07-Oct-2023 18:05:02 JST Mark T. Tomczak

   in reply to

   @Joe_0237 That's not a tracking link; it's a redirect notice.

   As ridiculous as it may sound to non-normies, Google added a feature ages ago where they warn a user when a link is about to go outside Google Drive (or, in the case of a corporate acount, outside the corporate intranet as configured in Google Apps). That feature is implemented by salting links in a doc with redirect wrappers.

   Why? Because users can't tell the difference, so sending someone a legit document that looks like it links to an internal company page but actually links to a third party proved to be an attack vector. One that needed to be defended against.

   (Yes, hypothetically they can be harvesting the redirect visits for link-out-following information. But that's not the primary purpose or the reason these links exist. They exist to pop up this page so that users have a moment to realize that the link they just clicked on isn't going to login.corpsite.org, it's going to login.hackers-steal-yo-creds.com)