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Hah, I wanted to share this article from It's FOSS News on here but don't want to cause the issue they describe in it, so I won't link to it directly.

They only mention #Mastodon in this article, but would this not be a wider issue on most #fediverse platforms?

Here's the link broken up:
https:// news.itsfoss .com/mastodon-link-problem/

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in reply to xepher

well, yes. They are just doing the mainstream thing of conflating the two...😬🤦‍♂️
in reply to BeAware :veriweed:

@BeAware Thanks! It's a redirector which doesn't let chrome through, because I hate chrome. You are welcome to use it. Here is where you can make your own links.

https://user.fm/beastman.fastmail.com/ffx_only_create.html

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in reply to likely not a disguised martian

Hah, yeah I’m getting that too now. Maybe they had a point.
This entry was edited (2 weeks ago)
in reply to xepher

@kyonshi @beastman the site itself is getting shared a LOT today unfortunately. So this redirect isn't helping, but it's a good try!🤷‍♂️😬
in reply to xepher

@beastman @BeAware not really maybe, it's been known for a while that this can happen. as great as the fediverse is, this is an issue
in reply to likely not a disguised martian

it IS getting shared a lot. I've seen about 15-20 different posts...😬

Edit: I misunderstood your "not really, maybe" my bad

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in reply to BeAware :veriweed:

@BeAware @kyonshi 🤣 Oh no! I just use the fastmail web hosting so maybe there's a limit... I've never hit it before. I guess that's what It's Foss was talking about!

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in reply to likely not a disguised martian

@kyonshi @beastman @BeAware It’s the first time I’ve heard about it, but it does make sense. Possibly just not widely known. Or I could just be out of the loop 🙂
in reply to xepher

@kyonshi @beastman not widely known, but long known by the people that need to know, yet they've done nothing about it. It's been known as an issue by Eugen since 2017...🤦‍♂️
in reply to xepher

@beastman @BeAware the problem is mostly academic until you actually get an article that gets widely shared. then it becomes pretty acute pretty quickly for smaller sites