@xerz IMO it /shouldn't/. Domains are not links and it's /good/ that Mastodon lets us talk about domains without turning them into links. Other software should cut it out.
@4censord@kitten@IceWolf meanwhile, I think that if a string matches an URI with an internet domain, then it should behave as a link, since it’s unlikely to be meant as anything other than a web (HTTP{,S}) resource
like, the biggest exception to doing this I can think of is talking about technical issues, which is not what most people are doing
@xerz@IceWolf@kitten i guess it depends on what exactly you are doing, and how you do the matching because it has happened (to me) before that something that isnt remotely a link was turned into a link, breakiung up hte whole flow of text around it because now there are (link previews, suggestive links warning (see image), the like)
so if your frontend does the link detection and makes it clicky, i dont care. but if your backend does the detection, maybe even adds on a https://, and puts it into a <a> tag, then i dislike that
@xerz@kitten@4censord "Most people who use links" have never seen an http:// in their life?
Then this is a user education problem. The solution is not "make it literally impossible to talk about a website without linking to it".
Where do you stop? One of our XMPP clients autolinks ANYTHING that could MAYBE POSSIBLY be construed as a date, time, or time range, making it impossible to say things like "I had bagels for breakfast today" without it turning "today" into a link. That's not acceptable.
Linking bare domains isn't either. Let people talk ABOUT websites without linking TO them.
@IceWolf@kitten@4censord funny you mention that, since a lot of people love that while using Google, Apple and Microsoft services (I don’t think it fits on a social network tho, where you don’t usually schedule work things or meetups)
if you want to have an understanding of the fundamentals of your tech, you’re likely not on mastodon.social anyway
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![a link (in this case a username) that has text different to the link content. the front end helpfully adds [$domain] after the link so users arnent surprised
this breaks the whole flow of text](https://media.unfug.social/media_attachments/files/115/598/893/525/304/495/original/92ead7da6a5c77fa.png "a link (in this case a username) that has text different to the link content. the front end helpfully adds [$domain] after the link so users arnent surprised
this breaks the whole flow of text")
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