Marcel Waldvogel<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.coop/@eloquence" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>eloquence</span></a></span> <br>Having posts or other indexed/indexable content refer to URL shorteners is dangerous for referrals/archiving/…:</p><p><a href="https://waldvogel.family/tags/ArchiveTeam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArchiveTeam</span></a>, the people behind e.g. the effort to archive US government websites in a hurry—before they were deleted/changed in an even greater hurry by the current administration, write about <a href="https://waldvogel.family/tags/URLShorteners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>URLShorteners</span></a>:</p><p>"Such services are a ticking timebomb. If they go away, get hacked, or sell out, millions of links will be lost (see Wikipedia: Link Rot)."<br><a href="https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/URLTeam" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php</span><span class="invisible">/URLTeam</span></a></p>