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minus-squareScott@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·1 day agoLink shorteners have absolutely been useful when you need to go to a long URL on a entirely different device you can’t copy a link to easily. I’ve used them to make it easy to get to scripts.
minus-squareasap@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agoShortening the URL makes it possible to have significantly lower resolution QR codes, which is almost always more useful. Able to be rendered on more mediums, able to be read with lower quality readers.
minus-squareScott@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 day agoNot when you are working in a CLI
Link shorteners have absolutely been useful when you need to go to a long URL on a entirely different device you can’t copy a link to easily.
I’ve used them to make it easy to get to scripts.
QR codes mostly solved that.
Shortening the URL makes it possible to have significantly lower resolution QR codes, which is almost always more useful. Able to be rendered on more mediums, able to be read with lower quality readers.
Not when you are working in a CLI