Twitter refuses to display the nice preview card for substack links, but this a silly ban that is easily defeated with some basic understanding of how the internet works
Important thing I forgot to mention: I wanted to design this tool with a "permacomputing" mentality, with the expectation that it will fail one day
I didn't want a bunch of dead links around the web. Best I could come up with is that the proxied url contains the original URL inside of it. So you can in theory recover it even if the proxy server is down.
Is Twitter in the right in censoring substack links? Is it justified?
I didn't really delve into this too much. I think it is ultimately within Twitter's rights to do this. They are a private company. They have competitors who clone its product and want to poach its users. Twitter is doing what it needs to to survive. I think this is all true and fine.
But that doesn't mean we have to put up with it. I don't like this feature/limitation of twitter, and I don't like the competing services (they don't have the people I want to follow etc). They're well within their rights to try and clamp down on external links, just as I am well within my rights to use the affordances given to me by the technology of the internet. I just want to talk to friends about their essays, and mine, and I want it to look nice. And as long as I have the option to do so, I will take it.
Important thing I forgot to mention: I wanted to design this tool with a "permacomputing" mentality, with the expectation that it will fail one day
I didn't want a bunch of dead links around the web. Best I could come up with is that the proxied url contains the original URL inside of it. So you can in theory recover it even if the proxy server is down.
Is Twitter in the right in censoring substack links? Is it justified?
I didn't really delve into this too much. I think it is ultimately within Twitter's rights to do this. They are a private company. They have competitors who clone its product and want to poach its users. Twitter is doing what it needs to to survive. I think this is all true and fine.
But that doesn't mean we have to put up with it. I don't like this feature/limitation of twitter, and I don't like the competing services (they don't have the people I want to follow etc). They're well within their rights to try and clamp down on external links, just as I am well within my rights to use the affordances given to me by the technology of the internet. I just want to talk to friends about their essays, and mine, and I want it to look nice. And as long as I have the option to do so, I will take it.