Still a little puzzled by the link handling in Threads posts. Every character in the URL counts toward the total, even though the URLs are shortened when displayed anyway. I don’t want to run a URL shortener in 2024 but it would help.

@manton that’s pretty annoying because in their own client you can delete the URL once the preview card loads

@manton A Micro.blog URL shortener would pair nicely with blogrolls for that hipster blogging aesthetic.

@SimonWoods Unfortunately, mic.ro is not available

@manton Explains why sometimes a post is shortened on threads.net but not on Mastodon when they both theoretically have the same 500 character limit.