Another aspect of the fallout is once the manipulation reaches critical mass, the platform stops being trusted because it's been too heavily spammed

Not the first time this is happening - any platform that was considered trustworthy by the search engines at some point was getting manipulated one way or another.

...network and can't because these scammers have grabbed them all 😱

"The websites hosting the stories appear to have formerly belonged to golf clubs, businesses and educational companies, and were taken over by opportunistic web publishers when the previous owners failed to renew the domain names" yikes and then you try to find domains for an honest decent private..

To clarify: the complaints are filed as DMCA but the actual text of complaints does not refer to any copyright violation but only to the fact this kind of content is illegal

I think I'm going to duplicate here what I'm posting on (semi-dead) Twitter and LinkedIn - but who knows, maybe there will be also something exclusive to BlueSky. If you're an SEO, affiliate, builder and monetiser of sites or anything along these lines, stay tuned