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Written by Fedi.Tips on 2025-01-29 at 17:47

Hey new people, you don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon 🙂

All links on Mastodon are counted as 23 characters towards your post size limit, regardless of how long they actually are.

More info at https://fedi.tips/you-dont-need-link-shorteners-on-mastodon

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Written by Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified: on 2025-01-29 at 17:51

@FediTips Yes, please do NOT use link shorteners here, folks! So we can inspect the link and know where we're going. I won't bother clicking on a shortened link.

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Written by Sindarina, Edge Case Detective on 2025-01-31 at 21:49

@Nonya_Bidniss @FediTips @jurjen_heeck I actually have a filter set up for most common link shorteners, it's an excellent timesaver 😄

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Written by Helma on 2025-02-01 at 08:32

@Nonya_Bidniss @FediTips Then again, there are tools to check i.e. unshorten links with a safety score before opening. Like https://unshorten.it/ could come in handy (maybe for those shortlinks outside Mastodon then).

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Written by Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified: on 2025-02-01 at 13:25

@helma I know that, for crying out loud. Why make people do the extra work? Why not work with the way the platform is designed already to allow for the length of a full URL without counting it against a character count? So your solution is to make everyone do more work because people don't want to plug a readable link into their posts. @FediTips

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