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Your original link https://tapbots.social/@paul/109695822047176004 https://tapbots.social/@paul/109695822047176004 has https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/15/235563
by pvg 4y ago
Your 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.