Still a little puzzled by the link handling in Threads posts. Every character in the URL counts toward the total, even though the URLs are shortened when displayed anyway. I don’t want to run a URL shortener in 2024 but it would help.

Jon Mitchell

@manton that’s pretty annoying because in their own client you can delete the URL once the preview card loads

Simon Woods

A Micro.blog URL shortener would pair nicely with blogrolls for that hipster blogging aesthetic.

Pratik

@SimonWoods Unfortunately, mic.ro is not available

Mitch Wagner

Explains why sometimes a post is shortened on threads.net but not on Mastodon when they both theoretically have the same 500 character limit.

Simon Woods

@pratik Damn! I would have set up /ll and kept the dream alive.

Manton Reece @manton
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