| ▲ | Tell HN: Twitter/X is blocking all tinyurl links | |
| 13 points by wanderingmind 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ||
Posting a tinyurl link in X throws an error `We can't complete this request because this link has been identified by X or our partners as being potentially harmful. Visit our Help Center to learn more.` | ||
| ▲ | infotainment 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Free speech absolutism! Marketplace of ideas! What's that? You want to speak favorably about a competing social network? You must be censored, it's for your own good! (I assume this is part of their ongoing effort to block people from posting links to Bluesky.) | ||
| ▲ | andyjohnson0 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
It's time to move on. Twitter doesn't want you anymore. | ||
| ▲ | rsynnott 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
I mean, it’s broken. It’s been broken for years. At some point, probably time to let it go. | ||
| ▲ | Hamuko 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Back when Bluesky was in invite-only mode and I was giving out invite codes on Twitter, it used to be possible to just copy-paste the invite code into a DM with a rando and have them join. At some point, that stopped working. Your account would get blocked and you'd need to solve one of those annoying CAPTCHAs. Following this change, I started to just take screenshots of the invite codes as they were visible on the Bluesky website, so black text on a white background. Then that stopped working too and resulted in the CAPTCHA block, so whenever I wanted to share a code, I'd take the screenshot and overlay a random game screenshot on top of it to make it no longer just black text on a white background. Thankfully they didn't manage to stop that before the invite system went away. | ||
| ▲ | inquisitor27552 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
its 2024 drop the link shorteners lol | ||
| ▲ | wojciii 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Does this work on bluesky? See? Now you have a choice. | ||