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Is this the beginning of enshittification of bluesky? I can not search their website using the search icon they present to me on their website.
9 Comments
haerrii@feddit.org · 10 pts · 254d
I guess it's a new sign of the steep rise of the deep web in response to absurd amounts of AI crawling? Welcome to the future. The dark forest is here.
helloworld@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 254d
You will be unable to search anything. Besides wikipedia I like the hypothesis "Good sites need to hide to not get spammed by bad actors" a lot.
haerrii@feddit.org · 6 pts · 254d
Thanks, these articles are exactly what I wasn't able to find. oh, the irony of the medium article hidden behind a login wall :D
MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 254d
This has been this way forever iirc. My only reason for making a bsky is to be able to search for users who are too ignorant to make a mastodon account or don't realize bridgeyfed is a thing.
helloworld@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 254d
Would you agree that it is bad UI, or do you just expect social media platforms to be this way nowadays for users who are not logged in (to mitigate spamming of the search functionality I guess)?
dan@upvote.au · 4 pts · 254d
Search is pretty expensive in terms of CPU and RAM usage, so it's a common target in DDoS attacks and I'm not too surprised that they lock it down. Github also requires you to log in to use their code search.
helloworld@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 254d
Yeah I still remember the time in 2017 where search was not as locked down (on github) as it is today. I kind of miss it.
MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 254d
Yes, I would agree. Don't get me wrong, bsky is kind of not my thing in general lol
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 254d
Hey, this doesn't fit this comm. It's meant to be for people intentionally making bad uis for shits and giggles, not for complaints about dark patterns actually out there.