@julian @thisismissem Considering the flood of SEO spam, that reasoning makes sense.

If a solution like users with good reputations being able to have links posted without the nofollow attribute is possible we'd be onboard.

@Edent This explains why we never see any traffic from Mastodon, despite people retooting and giving us favorites. It certainly gives us the impression people share links without reading our articles, unless they discuss it here.

We get privacy concerns, but this gives the impression of links going out into the void. It's not true, but we'll likely never know how many people here read our work. Ah well.