{"id":2168,"date":"2019-12-11T17:50:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T12:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2019-12-11T17:50:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T12:50:28","slug":"link-in-the-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/link-in-the-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Link in Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anil Dash on Instagram\/Facebook killing the web <a href=\"https:\/\/anildash.com\/2019\/12\/10\/link-in-bio-is-how-they-tried-to-kill-the-web\/\">one hyperlink<\/a> at a time:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We don\u2019t even notice it anymore \u2014 \u201clink in bio\u201d. It\u2019s a pithy phrase, usually found on Instagram, which directs an audience to be aware that a pertinent web link can be found on that user\u2019s profile. Its presence is so subtle, and so pervasive, that we barely even noticed it was an attempt to kill the web&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But killing off links is a strategy. It may be presented as a cost-saving measure, or as a way of reducing the sharing of untrusted links. But it is a strategy, designed to keep people from the open web, the place where they can control how, and whether, someone makes money off of an audience. The web is where we can make sites that don\u2019t abuse data in the ways that Facebook properties do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A strategy, designed to keep people from the open web&#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}