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The walled gardens increasingly block URLs - FB blocks many sites for sharing copywrited content (even random blogs) - reddit blocks all dot ru, may archival s
by veqq 2y ago
The walled gardens increasingly block URLs
- FB blocks many sites for sharing copywrited content (even random blogs)
- reddit blocks all dot ru, may archival sites, telegram links etc. etc.
- twitter blocked some blogging platforms
- also many smaller sites block discord (which is justified)
Hopefully this will motivate people to leave them.
- simonw 2y agoYeah, this is so frustrating. The contortions people have to go through on Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and now increasingly Twitter to work around the "algorithm" punishing or forbidding links is infuriating. "Link in bio" culture is the reason companies like Linktree even exist! And good for them, they're providing a sadly necessary service.
- nerdponx 2y agoLikewise it's difficult to link to content within those platforms. But the reason they don't like external links is that If they can't easily follow, external links, they are more likely to shrug and keep scrolling, instead of doing something else. That means marginally more ad impressions shown.
- cxr 2y agoLink-in-bio services would be a lot more useful if they accepted a link from the reader—the link of the item that referred them there because the platform it was on didn't allow direct-linking to off-site pages—and then returned the link that the author intended to convey there but was prevented from posting.