You don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon!

All links on Mastodon count as 23 characters towards your post limit, no matter how long the links actually are.

Link shortener services like bit.ly, t.co etc track users who click on their links. This is really bad for privacy. If you use link shorteners on Mastodon, people may assume you are just doing it for tracking purposes.

More info at fedi.tips/you-dont-need-link-s

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p.s. Just been pointed out that the official iOS app has a bug which causes links to be more than 23 characters. You can avoid this bug by using a third party iOS app such as Toot! or Ice Cubes or Ivory, or by logging in on your server's website.

April 16, 2023 at 6:48:07 PM

i use the tusker mastodon ios app :)

thanks for the heads up!👍🏼

- Ice Cubes is vastly superior to the official iOS app in every way anyway.

metatext is pretty good for iOS too imo

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