Mastodawn

Quick little tip: You don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon.

All links on Mastodon count for 23 characters towards your limit, no matter how many characters they really are.

However, you need to include https:// at the beginning of links to make them clickable.

@feditips specifically https? Old school links don't qualify?

@doq @feditips nah, just put the protocol in!

it errs on the side of not linking, though, so protocols it doesn't recognize may not work.

let's find out! steam://rungameid/587620

@doq @feditips Okay yeah, protocols other than HTTP/HTTPS may not work.

@frostwolf @doq @feditips
So does a http link like http://www.example.com work? Edit: Yes.