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Redirect to what tho? They gonna redirect me to Amazon? Pornhub? Malware?
Crypto scams, viagra or literally anything they want to advertise. Same reason blog comments spamming is a thing.
And 99% of those people are just gonna click that X and stop going to the site that redirects them. If it's not a Lemmy instance they are getting to, then what would make them stick around?
The blame should be more on the sites like lemmyverse.net for not vetting the links they are advertising.
A clever scammer could create scam/phishing/advertisement posts on their instance that are artificially upvoted to the top. They could even have ChatGPT make a bunch of comments to make them seem real.
Hopefully, other instances would catch on and defederate from them, but if they're subtle or just wait until they have a bunch of users it would probably be enough to scam quite a few people.