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LavX News<p>Scaling URL Shorteners: The Engineering Marvel Behind 100K URLs per Second</p><p>Rebrandly's innovative architecture for generating 100,000 URLs per second showcases the complexities of scalable system design. This article delves into the technical challenges and solutions that ma...</p><p><a href="https://news.lavx.hu/article/scaling-url-shorteners-the-engineering-marvel-behind-100k-urls-per-second" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.lavx.hu/article/scaling-u</span><span class="invisible">rl-shorteners-the-engineering-marvel-behind-100k-urls-per-second</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Microservices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microservices</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/URLShortening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>URLShortening</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ScalableArchitecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScalableArchitecture</span></a></p>
Erik van Straten<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@theintercept" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>theintercept</span></a></span> : Most (if not all) Mastodon instances know how to "shorten" links:</p><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/27/israel-target-palestinian-journalists-gaza/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/03/27/is</span><span class="invisible">rael-target-palestinian-journalists-gaza/</span></a></p><p>(Even with metadata it does not get longer:</p><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/27/israel-target-palestinian-journalists-gaza/?utm_content=buffer7b5d2&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=theintercept" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/03/27/is</span><span class="invisible">rael-target-palestinian-journalists-gaza/?utm_content=buffer7b5d2&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=theintercept</span></a><br>)</p><p>Please use the the real domain name to prevent that people click on links impersonating your website.</p><p>Your readers deserve it.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/URLshortening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>URLshortening</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/URLshorteners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>URLshorteners</span></a></p>
Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://activism.openworlds.info/@armact" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>armact</span></a></span><br>These days there are none that we know of, but good news is Mastodon caps URLs <a href="https://activism.openworlds.info/tags/characterCount" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>characterCount</span></a> to the low twenties, this means even if you URL is 500 characters long, not only will the scrolling user only see about 25 characters, the character count only goes up by about 23 characters.</p><p>Other instances have larger character counts typically, so that's good too.</p><p>So there is no real need for <a href="https://activism.openworlds.info/tags/URLShortening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>URLShortening</span></a> on online social networks.</p><p>If you want us to a look at some, happy to help.</p>
spar|fin|dig :: Jan<p>Hier kannst Du Deine URLs (Links) in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> und anderen <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Wikimedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikimedia</span></a>-Projekten kürzen (lassen):<br><a href="https://w.wiki/42iQ" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">w.wiki/42iQ</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>(<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:URL-Kürzung" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:</span><span class="invisible">URL-Kürzung</span></a>)<br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/urlshortener" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>urlshortener</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/URLshorteners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>URLshorteners</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/URLShortening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>URLShortening</span></a></p>