Rose

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Ensuring that a link doesn't expire would make sense to me. My personal interactions with grant on other subjects were positive as well.

Still, there are multiple Discord links on the Atlas, and though some of them match the links found elsewhere online, some appear unique to the Atlas. The one for Toki Pona isn't the same one as on reddit for the same server. The Pixel Anime Faction link isn't found on its subreddit. Both types of links can be used to see the number of people joined, but a unique link would allow to do that with more precision. Same as 3minutes, but it's the only one singled out by grant.

One thing I didn't mention is that custom Discord invite links are also allowed, even though they track the number of users joined, which is the same type of information as collected by a custom 3minutes link. Yet no "Tracking link" addition from Grant.

on 3minutes.wtf · c/2026canvasatlas · 1 pts · 11d

My point obviously isn't to attack you, but any Linux server would have the full history of connections, so at least in theory, you could still compare your normal days to the two Canvas days and get a list of IP addresses that could be attributed to those of Canvas users. Even if there is a lot of junk, it's still closer to being personally identifiable than just four views counts with nothing else we have access to via mystats.wtf. Moreover, a domain name registered to a single person is more likely to expire or be used for something malicious than one from an established organization. Grant should accept that there is a risk and not try to micromanage just some links.

on Watch Dominion · c/2026canvasatlas · 1 pts · 11d

@grant@toast.ooo As with 3minutes, your editorializing seems biased. Why is there a Wikipedia link before the actual link? Pawper from Cassette Beasts didn't get the same treatment. Serious Sam, Subnautica 2, KDE, Factorio and Inugami Korone didn't get the same treatment. And I'm sure the list isn't exhaustive.

on 3minutes.wtf · c/2026canvasatlas · 1 pts · 11d

@grant@toast.ooo It's not quite fair to attempt to scare people off by prefacing to say it's a tracking link. Though views and voluntary post-watch replies are tracked, there's zero personally identifiable information collected, which makes it drastically more ethical than the conventional tech used for analytics, like Google Analytics and Cloudflare, present on countless websites like the linked Serioussam.com, pawb.social, Reddit or YouTube and others, without any warning on the Atlas. There are even low-traffic and personal websites (e.g. Redjard.org) linked without a warning, allowing their creators to fully monitor the requests within the set time frame and gather everything up to the IP addresses.