That’s unfortunate. FWIW I don’t disagree with you, full plaintext links should be posted anywhere. It’s not like there are any psychopaths out there typing links manually instead of copy/pasting.
Markdown is an accepted and implemented form of posting content on lemmy. That’s why I can do this or do this or do this but you don’t see the html. The platform shouldn’t cater to you because your app is incapable of showing you the links people post in markdown format, find a better app, or petition your app developer to handle links better
If you expect people to download PDFs from social media comments, it helps if you don’t hide the link…
If you don’t know how to inspect a link before downloading it, that’s on you. You asked a question and I answered it by directly citing the source.
Some people are on phones where you can’t just hover…
And you didn’t “cite’” the source
You linked it
If you were citing it you would have quoted it and then shown the link without hiding it.
That’s basic stuff we learn in highschool…
Hold finger on link, read link from context menu.
Nope, doesn’t show the whole thing.
Maybe that works on iPhones and different android flavors tho
That’s unfortunate. FWIW I don’t disagree with you, full plaintext links should be posted anywhere. It’s not like there are any psychopaths out there typing links manually instead of copy/pasting.
Then blame your app, not the person linking state.gov materials
I use voyager on iOS, it allows me to see the url of links before I click them
It’s available on android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.vger.voyager&hl=en_US
What’s hard about just posting the link?
And I don’t use apps to use a website on my phone, unless you count browsers as apps
Markdown is an accepted and implemented form of posting content on lemmy. That’s why I can do this or do this or do this but you don’t see the html. The platform shouldn’t cater to you because your app is incapable of showing you the links people post in markdown format, find a better app, or petition your app developer to handle links better
Why are you still ranting about apps?