Links are the core building blocks of the Internet.

Internet without external links is just a corporate Intranet.

(Yes, Twitter, I'm subcasting you)

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True, wrote about it in length here :)

https://kanfa.macbudkowski.com/niche-internet

Without a doubt one of the biggest mistakes Twitter made 5 years ago...  I remember how it drastically changed the feed at first for the better but then to the way worse..

yes they are. and link previews are too https://wojtek.im/journal/creating-a-link-embed-react-server-component