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bastawhiz 49 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Zohran and the Short Link

The public doesn't need an immutable history of URLs, they need URLs they can freaking type. When you've got pages people actually care to go to, then you can create your museum of URLs.

_kb 49 days ago [–]

Particularly here where the context is ephemeral.

Any usage of short links can (and sometimes should) link to a canonical source with an immutable URI. This is just a foreign key for humans.

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