Ben CohenJust right-clicked a link in a mastodon post and copied it then sent it to someone and only then did it finally occur to me that it was completely a unfucked-with link. Not some BS redirect link that tracks where it came from and who I sent it to. Just a regular link.
Will Ranjan-Churchill@airspeedswift I had a similar thought recently. After spending some time scrolling through Mastodon posts, it took me completely by surprise when I hopped over to another platform and every third post was promoted/paid for. I'd seen it for years, but only then did it really occur to me what a weird concept that was.