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Evan B🥥ehs

@simon @daniel wait, I don’t understand. I’ve linked to my own website in my bio before. Is it now regulated to certain pre-approved domains?

12 May at 15:12 | Wall-to-wall | Open on social.coop
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Glyph

@eb @simon @daniel no, the issue is that since you basically only have room for *one* link in your bio, you need it to point to some kind of hub where you can add and remove links on demand easily. Building your own is not hard but it’s not *zero* effort. (And some sites, like onlyfans, are penalized harshly, which some creators obviously do not like)

12 May at 15:21 | Open on mastodon.social
Evan B🥥ehs

@glyph @simon @daniel but then I don’t understand “link in bio restrictions”. If creators have their own website it would take them 10 minutes to make their own link in bio and save the… what… 5$ a month for link tree?

12 May at 15:23 | Open on social.coop
Glyph

@eb @simon @daniel a lot of them don’t have their own website. Why would they? 99% of their business takes place on a constellation of “socials” and they just need a place to link to them all

12 May at 15:25 | Open on mastodon.social
Glyph

@eb @simon @daniel so the ones who *do* have their own websites still use linktree because it’s legible to the audience and culturally expected

12 May at 15:28 | Open on mastodon.social
Evan B🥥ehs

@glyph @simon @daniel I think culturally expected is key here because ^^^ the context was “people that have their own site but still use linktree”

12 May at 15:29 | Open on social.coop
Glyph

@eb @simon @daniel there are potentially lots of reasons. A linktree is just a list of strings and hyperlinks on a webpage, but then, so is a fediverse profile really, and we don’t all self-host those. The presence of features around its purpose make it easier to work with than a custom page on a custom site, well worth the $5 to save a couple hours of maintenance a year for someone doing this professionally

12 May at 15:32 | Open on mastodon.social
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