Brutkey

Lauren Weinstein
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org

PLEASE! When you post links, please take a few seconds and provide a few words describing WHAT the link is about, unless the URL is self-descriptive. Don't assume that everybody will see any associated information from the target site along with your post -- often they won't. Clicking on links with no idea what they are other than that you find them useful or exciting is, frankly, annoying at best and the sort of activity we constantly warn people NOT to do. THANKS. -L

Ibrahim Tencer
@ibrahimtencer@mathstodon.xyz

@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org Mastodon does have link previews, I see one in the reply to this thread for example. And of course no one is forcing you to click on it. If you're following someone then it stands to reason that you do care to an extent what they find interesting.

Lauren Weinstein
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org

@ibrahimtencer@mathstodon.xyz Link previews FREQUENTLY fail. I see bare links much of the time, as many other users have reported. On busy/slow sites the previews can be long delayed or sometimes never appear. I follow various people who have various interests. The fact that I follow them for a tech link doesn't mean I'm interested in a cooking link. It wastes my time and resources to click on links that somebody hasn't bothered to take the few seconds to describe. Period.

Ibrahim Tencer
@ibrahimtencer@mathstodon.xyz

@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org then that's a problem with the site/app, not the people posting the links. And as mentioned you can always just not click on it.

Lauren Weinstein
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org

@ibrahimtencer@mathstodon.xyz Adding a word or two is NOT an inconvenience. Not doing so is just LAZINESS and not caring about your followers. A post like:

WOW, this is great! and a link tells you NOTHING.

It could be: WOW, this is great. Aircraft: LINK

This is not rocket science.

Jestbill
@Jestbill@mastodon.world

@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org @ibrahimtencer@mathstodon.xyz

But but but I'm used to talking on my phone with my best friends who know which TV program I'm watching.
They don't need context, get off my lawn!