Common questions and answers on the Link Tax – from OpenMedia’s community
X is Severely Punishing Posts With Links in Them—Here's The Proof
As someone who frequently shares posts on X linking to external content sources (including my own content and content from other websites), I've noticed a major shift since Elon Musk took over Twit
X makes it 1,900 percent more expensive to post links | The Verge
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Why Universal Links Open Safari: Validating the AASA File
Validate an apple-app-site-association file, test which URLs open your iOS app, and fix the hosting and CDN problems that silently break universal links.
Axios Media Trends: 🔗 Link economy breaks
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Beginner's Guide to Linkers
A typical example of what triggers this explanation is when I help someone who has a link error like:
How the Channel Tunnel Works
Google vs. the Open Web
A few days ago, I made a social media post about Google vs. the Open Web. It received some responses, so I’ll reproduce it below with some...
Smart Links for Music Marketing, Podcasts and Artist Promotion | Linkfire
Smart links for music marketing and podcast promotion. From your first single to your first world tour, Linkfire simplifies music and podcast promotion every step of the way. Trusted by major labels and over 50k artists.
And! The reason Meta (and many other sites) do this is because Canada has a "link tax" that forces companies to pay money every time one of their users links to a Canadian news site. Don't allow links to those sites? You don't have to pay the tax.
Krista D Ball is Canada's Potato, Shaken Not Stirred
A lot of you might not know this, but meta doesn't allowed Canadians and news organizations to post links to traditional news. That means I can't post a CBC or CNN article that refutes a misinformation account. This action by meta allowed the raise of alt right misinformation to flourish here.
we’re rolling out the first phase of the Bluesky + standard.site integration today! now, when you share an article from writing platforms that support standard.site (like @leaflet.pub, @pckt.blog, @offprint.app), you’ll notice the link card has more to it than a typical link card.
Bluesky
v1.122 is rolling out today, featuring a better way to discover and share articles, blog posts and newsletters across the Atmosphere via new, dynamic Standard.site link cards. 🧵
Majority of links are behind paywalls which I get; subscriptions in media are everywhere bc platforms killed distribution. How much traffic data actually translates to reading the article? I open links all the time and then close them bc of the paywall. We are reviving discovery but who’s reading?
at:// links not opening in Firefox? Now they do ☄️ I made a tiny extension that redirects @atproto.com URIs to your preferred AppView — starting with @bsky.app @blackskyweb.xyz and @bluenotes.social 🩷 Works with posts, feeds, lists, starter packs and both @standard.site publication and documents 🔥
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tangled.orgAll links
All links posted across all channels for any reason.
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Use any spare device as your private cloud with PeerSky
deepseek-ai/DeepInfer
Th0rgal/satmux
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