Not really. From what I understand we wouldn’t need to encode a link to a torrent website, see the other post https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/18438
Mainly you’d want to avoid linking anything directly (say a direct link to something possibly copyright/pirated) or at the very least do the base64 encode thing for that.
(of course the above can change if the current policy causes issues with federation with other Lemmy instances)
This is the best way of posting links. I agree. Let’s all get used to this. Also DMCA bots can’t get it.
Is there a firefox plugin to automatically decode them?
Edit: to answer my own question https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/base64-decoder/
Wow! Thanks. Appreciate it.
But do we still need this?
Not really. From what I understand we wouldn’t need to encode a link to a torrent website, see the other post https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/18438
Mainly you’d want to avoid linking anything directly (say a direct link to something possibly copyright/pirated) or at the very least do the base64 encode thing for that.
(of course the above can change if the current policy causes issues with federation with other Lemmy instances)