Mastodon does this because they made a 500 character limit, but then you'd blow your whole budget on one link, so they made links not count, but then you need t

Mastodon does this because they made a 500 character limit, but then you'd blow your whole budget on one link, so they made links not count, but then you need to shorten it somehow so it looks pretty because they don't support markdown or other means of posting links.