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.
Sören@airspeedswift @donmelton but now how do they know how ENGAGED you were??
Vint ProxThat's the problem, isn't it? 🤔 In 5 years, we'll be wondering how to attach this info back if people get sick of not knowing what places they share at are most engageable. It's like this obsession with seeing who's read your message in chat to not repeatedly beg for active feedback of people.
But wherever you go, there are just bunch of passive observers sitting around that you cannot change. It requires workarounds, and unfortunately just appending things to URLs isn't going to help it.