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Instagram is practically anti-text. The app doesn't linkify URs because they don't want users to escape the app. Users worked around this with "see link in bio"
by cpeterso 4y ago
Instagram is practically anti-text. The app doesn't linkify URs because they don't want users to escape the app. Users worked around this with "see link in bio" to access Linktree pages. The app won't even let users select text in posts because they might copy a URL and escape the app.
- napolux 4y agowhich makes me kinda crazy after all these years. links are the pillars of the web and these apps neglect them
- alias_neo 4y agoIt's not neglect though; as the person you're replying to stated, its outright hostile by design. It was _designed_ to keep you _off_ the web, and only in the app.
- nells 4y agoThose apps aren’t part of the web.
- napolux 4y agoI can agree on this.
- mcv 4y agoAll these centralised, privatised social networks are basically anti-web. I think most of Big Tech has betrayed the goal of the Web. The only really big, popular site that's true to the original goals of the Web is Wikipedia. Everybody else just tries to lock people up in their own walled gardens again.