As someone who's super particular about links, I'm not exactly thrilled that BlueSky lets users hide URLs behind flavor text now. When did that start? Can we make it unstart again? Because it's a bad thing to not know where a link's gonna take you.
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Ah, got it. I know it doesn't seem dangerous on paper, but I really don't like the idea of being sent off to a site I'm not aware of before I take action. Of course you can always hover or long-press, but hiding URLS is inevitably going to trip up even the most risk-averse users.
I guess I just never saw a masked link here until now. It's just not a practice I think is helpful at all, but I'm also the kind of person who uses four different browsers and private tabs for anything that I don't need to be logged into any accounts to access.
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