For everyone who thought link shorteners were a good idea.
The lesson here is that if you don't own it, it will undergo enshittification. Even if it looks cool today.
Posting your blog articles on Substack? Telling people to use Bluesky or Threads? Enshittification is only a matter of time. I'm not sure why most people never learn the lesson.
> I'm not sure why most people never learn the lesson.
It's pretty simple.
Your average person isn't going to set up their own blogging system because they can't. They aren't going to use use Mastodon, because none of their friends and family will be on it.
These aren't problems that will be fixed by convincing your Mum to move to the Fediverse. Only anti-monopolist legislation could fix it.
@TomSwirly @jrychter I know I must be some sort of freak because I'm super happy that my IRL friends and family are not on my social network.
I mean, I know them. In real life. Why would I need to see what they post online? Just sounds complicated to me.
@alisynthesis @jrychter There is an ocean between me and a plurality if not a majority of my friends, unfortunately.
Some of them are in the process of spinning off this mortal coil, too...
@jrychter Just wondering if this is tracked by one of the @opentermsarchive #OpenTermsArchive s - I couldn't find it there:
@jrychter Oh, link shorteners are a good idea in some use cases, like when you want to share a long link on a printed medium. But then I prefer to use my own 🤓
I have set up a short domain running YoURLs for the few times I need URLs printed in letters.
@jrychter Would more say "link shorteners as a service". 😅
But yeah that is bad.
@[email protected] i told beings about enshittification but no they didn't listen *no they didn't listen*
@jrychter that's why they only sensible option is POSE. If you need to share to find your audience, don't let the platform be your voice.
Although there's a reason Facebook and LinkedIn demote posts with links.
I think they're doing it to capitalize on the millions of orphaned links and accounts since 2008! It will also have a negative effect on SEO since they're breaking the redirects.
YOURLS (or something similar) is the way. That's what I've used the past several years.
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