• Greg Clarke@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    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