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in reply to TROM

Honest question, Why do you use a url shortener on friendica when you don't have any character limit there ?

I personally prefer the full link because it tells me what site I'm visiting. For example, if its a youtube/peertube link, then I can open it with newpipe/mpv etc. There's also some privacy/security issues as well, and some people might think its spam when they see links like this, so they may ignore the post entirely......

in reply to Rokosun

Because it autoposts on Facebook too and Twitter, and these ones cut short such long urls so basically they won't work. People won't know where to watch the live if they follow us there. I know fb and twitter are crap, and I didn't want to care about them at all, but if it is already setup to auto post there from friendica then i might as well shorten some important urls since it takes 1s.
in reply to Tio

Ok, that makes more sense. Would be nice if you could automate this though, so that it'll automatically shorten links before posting on Facebook/twitter so you don't have to do them here 🤔
in reply to Rokosun

I wish that would be the case but right now idk how i can do that