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They do not point to each other. M. Haddad's previous post point to The Verge. The post that I hyperlinked to came afterwards, and The Verge points to it. It
by JdeBP 4y ago
They do not point to each other. M. Haddad's previous post point to The Verge. The post that I hyperlinked to came afterwards, and The Verge points to it. It does not point to anything.
- pvg 4y agoYour original link https://tapbots.social/@paul/109695822047176004 https://tapbots.social/@paul/109695822047176004 has https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/15/23556359/tweetbot-twitter-online-third-party-apps-outage https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/15/23556359/tweetbot-twitter... at the top which in turn links to your original link https://tapbots.social/@paul/109695822047176004 https://tapbots.social/@paul/109695822047176004 near the top. They cross-link regardless of the circumstances/sequence of events that led them to cross-linking.
- JdeBP 4y agoNo, that is https://tapbots.social/@paul/109695455993367527 https://tapbots.social/@paul/109695455993367527, which is the preceding post. Unlike Hacker News, Mastodon makes the post linked-to by the URL have a different background and a larger font. And https://tapbots.social/@paul/109695822047176004 https://tapbots.social/@paul/109695822047176004 is very clearly a post that contains no hyperlink at all. That's because it was posted before The Verge then went back and edited its article.
- pvg 4y agoI mean, a link is what it displays and contains. The two documents referred to by these urls refer to each other. It's not a convoluted case to make.