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You don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon!

All links on Mastodon count as 23 characters towards your post limit, no matter how long the links actually are.

Link shortener services like bit.ly, t.co etc track users who click on their links. This is really bad for privacy. If you use link shorteners on Mastodon, people may assume you are just doing it for tracking purposes.

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Show threadDeus
What about reddit link shorteners like https://redd.it/asdf?
Apr 16, 2023 at 6:26pmWeb
Show threadAndreas KApr 17, 2023

@Deus @feditips Shrug, they still count as 23 characters?

There is no reason to use a shortener ⇾ so all links, even if they are shorter than 23 characters, need to count the same (or there would still be a reason to use a shortener).