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brito brito@nostr.pt 2 years ago
The reason why we avoid short URLs is knowing they will be broken after two years, often even less than that. Since you are using nostr, the chance that the short URLs can be backup to some relay is high. How can the short URLs keep working even when your domain goes down one day? Thanks.
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Jingles _@jingles.dev 2 years ago
How can URL keep working even if w3.do is down one day? The same reason how your nostr accounts, followers and notes can persist even if iris or Damus or amethyst is down. As long as the relays contains the data, it’s persist. W3.do is just a client.
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florian florian@slidestr.net 2 years ago
When w3.do goes down the links will stop working .. BUT since all link data is public in the nostr network any new link service can reuse the same shortlinks. So you could create w4.do/<shortlink> and it would work as a replacement. Clients would need to rewrite links in older posts to the new service.
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