You aspects of Reddit's toxic culture have you observed on Lemmy?
To be fair, fire is dehumidifying
This smells like burnout. I would suggest taking a break. Can you take a semester off? Maybe go travel? Working holiday somewhere?
Whose engagement?
The engagement with my presentation for instance. I don't care about tracking specific users.
It doesn’t change the user-facing URL like a shortener.
Where the user-facing URL points can easily be changed! For instance, changing the DNS record or changing where the reverse proxy points. I really don't think you understand how the internet works under the hood.
Someone archiving the original content. It’s your fault for breaking the link at a whim.
I'm not going to optimize my content for lazy archivers. Check out web.archive.org for an example of how to properly archive, they update the URLs so links don't break
Third party (you) tracking the user
I'm not tracking users, I'm tracking engagement. I'm not Zuckerberg
Hiding the true target from the user
99.99% of website use a reverse proxy, the target is nearly always hidden. I don't think you understand how the internet works.
Destroying any attempt at content archival
Who would archive a shortened URL and not follow the link to its target? It's not my fault if people don't know how to archive my content.
URL shorteners are not inherently bad.
No sorry, I was just lucky and persistent
I don't believe in security by obscurity
This obviously depends on the context. For instance, I'm speaking at a public event and I put a link up on a presentation to my website. The website is running on my nginx server so I could already track every visit. Having a shortened URL helps me gauge the value of my talk. It's not black and white
URL shorteners are but inherently bad. I find them useful. I self host them on domains I own. So they're secure, trust worthy, I can track engagement, and I can update them if need be.
Plus, I'm pretty sure Twitter forces you to use their shortener. My URL http://gho.st was "shortened" to a longer https://t.co/blahblah URL 😂
Can you still use this HP laptop if you're printer had no ink?
Yeah, I've lost all faith in Google and the direction they're taking Android and the Internet
B for sure. Consider a long pole (stationary relative to the track) entering the portal at the front of the trolley, it would leave the portal at the speed the trolley is moving.