Hey #Fediverse can I ask you a favor?

[drahardja@sfba.social]

@iampytest1 @benbe Nice! I use Link Unshortener which has a user-editable list of known tracker queries.

[nilesjohnson@mathstodon.xyz]

@drahardja @elduvelle a new link shortener, based on the good advice "don't use link shorteners"

[estelle@mstdn.social]

@drahardja i've ended up with a, well, "distinctive" writing style to my own head as a result of having to work through a 500 character limitation as well as all the other pressures on posting on fedi

trust me, the "every URL is 23 characters" rule is a *godsend* for attribution

links absolutely do not need to be shortened here, and the full URL is more informative anyways!

(you should try to strip tracking parameters though. nobody has any use for that)

[dmacphee@mas.to]

@drahardja

Here is more info

https://lifehacker.com/tech/duckduckgo-copy-clean-link

[drahardja@sfba.social]

@dmacphee Ah, so this trims tracking queries, but it doesn’t unshorten links. I think this solves a *different* (also important) problem.

[sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net]

@drahardja somehow despite having zero tech knowledge I can already tell that every reply fly who did this bullshit vibecoded whatever tf it was they're desperately trying to recommend

which just makes your original point stronger I guess?? because who is gonna trust vibecode trash from a chucklefuck with no reading comprehension or sense of boundaries? 😂

[bobkmertz@techhub.social]

@iampytest1
@ferrix they were caught doing very malicious things including running DDoS from captcha apps to taking part in a smear campaign when a journalist uncovered an identity (I think I got that all right but it's from memory).

[diazona@techhub.social]

@drahardja It kind of blows my mind that *multiple* people have replied to you trying to justify the use of link shorteners with arguments that aren't even logically coherent, and they don't seem to realize it 🤦

[innowen@wellduck.me]

@CatsWander @drahardja
this made me cackle. especially the sticker

[catswander@mastodon.social]

@innowen Glad you liked it… did you check out my Alt text? 😁

[innowen@wellduck.me]

@CatsWander

lol yhhhhh….. no 😛😍

[cliftonr@wandering.shop]

@drahardja

This is the last 30 years of Internet social interaction in a nutshell.

[k_purpose@post.lurk.org]

@drahardja
Info for anyone who could find it interesting. Not exactly a reply but somewhat related, since we're not going to be able to stop the world from sharing shortened links and tracked links:

I use an F-droid app called URLCheck before opening all and every link.

With it, you can strip the links of tracking parts, unshort them (that usually takes two-three clicks in "unshort" until you get the 200-OK message), manually delete the useless parts you consider, and choose which app you want to open them with (this doesn't always work perfectly for some reason).

I edit to add: "it doesn't always work" means that the app doesn't always detect if you have a specific app to open a particular link, and it'll offer you only a browser, for instance.

I'm not a tech person, so there could be something undesirable in that app that I don't know about, but generally I feel better using it as my default app for opening links.

[draoicrogall@mastodon.social]

@drahardja I didn't know link character count was standardised here, that's interesting!

[oldcoder@dansu.org]

@ADHDruid : The reasoned tone is appreciated. Others have been peremptory. Peremptory isn't appreciated as much. I've promised to respond further to one of that group today. I'll include responses to your post as part of that post.