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@cambridgeport90 @vfrmedia Two reasons link aggregation stopped being the default for social media:
1. Social media sites realized it was more profitable to keep traffic to themselves instead of sending traffic somewhere else
2. Users decided that they hated leaving sites, and thus a culture was created based on "saved you a click".
This is even true now with the Fediverse. I discovered that blogging is useless except as an archive because nobody clicks!
Therefore, I make threads.
@cambridgeport90 @vfrmedia By the way, I can write another whole thread about the rise and fall of link aggregation.
Until the 2010s, clicking links was considered "fun".
Now it's considered, at best, as work. At worst, a threat to safety.