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(copied from mastodon )

Since so much of my feed has been talking about issues posting their Mastodon from birdsite - I've built you a workaround.

There's a shitpost domain I purchased recently - doitforthe.lol. I just built it with an open redirect for an allow list of Mastodon instances. The URL must be base 64 encoded, which I've built to evade birdsite filter lists.

Build yourself a URL of: hxxps://doitforthe[.]lol/mastodon=base64(your URL)

For example, the following link lands directly on my own Mastodon profile.

https://doitforthe.lol/?mastodon=aHR0cHM6Ly9pbmZvc2VjLmV4Y2h...

Edit: To be clear I have no form of tracking whatsoever.



It would probably be a better idea to use hash URLs if no tracking is intended


Why wouldn't any URL shortener work?


I had the understanding Twitter actually resolved bit.ly links and similar, but I'm not going to argue if someone manages to use any alternative.


A lot of websites follow redirects when enforcing URL rules.




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