Not good just the same. Hacking readers’ computers via a capta exploit is some next level nefarious shit above and beyond changing archived text.

Both violate users’ trust though. I had no idea about this.

Do you have a cite for that? This is the first I heard of this.

That was more skin than I ever wanted to see outside a NSFW instance.

They should solve this problem by using the same enforcement methods with alcohol access on underage social media users. I never knew anyone in high school who ever drank!

Bluesky was easier to sign up and less confusing to use. It had a much better mobile app. A lot of pro newsies came to Mastodon and were roundly ejected and abused, so they up and went to Blurdky instead. That was a major shooting your own foot moment for Mastodon because those newsies would have brought engaged audience. I saw people celebrating at Mastodon when news reporters up and quit. Idiotic. I hope the Lemmy community doesn’t repeat that mistake.