@halcy link just goes to the shortener homepage for some reason

DMA

Like 12 Jun 2021 at 14:38 | Wall-to-wall | Open on icosahedron.website

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@lazyreader .. i 2sg it was working before :|

12 Jun 2021 at 14:42 | Open on icosahedron.website

DMA

@halcy yeah, and clearly the preview blob on the toot had it working, too

12 Jun 2021 at 14:42 | Open on icosahedron.website

@lazyreader probably their whatever detector detected 1000 accesses and went LOL FRAUD ALERT

12 Jun 2021 at 14:56 | Open on icosahedron.website

@halcy @lazyreader Why shorten the link?

12 Jun 2021 at 16:07 | Open on mastodon.social

@Gargron @lazyreader because it is QUITE long

12 Jun 2021 at 16:54 | Open on icosahedron.website

@halcy @lazyreader It doesn't matter though

12 Jun 2021 at 16:54 | Open on mastodon.social

@Gargron @lazyreader i have found that people find long URLs “suspicious”

12 Jun 2021 at 16:58 | Open on icosahedron.website

@halcy @lazyreader But Mastodon visually shortens them anyway. Surely a link shortener is more suspicious nowadays

12 Jun 2021 at 16:59 | Open on mastodon.social