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Hey #GameDev, what are everybody's thoughts on ads in the game dev feed? I'm looking for ways to support my work, so lemme explain about what this would look like. 🧵

Not sure I feel super comfortable with ads not being labeled as ads. I can't complain about ads supporting a free platform, but it needs to be apparent that's what I'm looking at.

Yeah, I feel the same way. I know Graze is working on getting that sorted with Bluesky, but for the time being there's just not a mechanism to indicate an ad. 😞

If they're just regular skeets, can they be forced into using a tag like #Ad or something at the beginning of the post?

Yeah, I actually got a message from @devingaffney.com (Graze) suggesting exactly that! 🥰

Are they doing any sort of metrics on views? What keeps us from adding #Ad to our muted words list and effectively muting all of the ads? Would they even know?

That's a great question. @devingaffney.com, what's the word on this? Mute words are filtered out by Bluesky's AppView, right? So Graze can serve an ad in the feed, but there's currently no way for Graze to know if it displayed in the user's timeline. Is that correct?