{"id":27544,"date":"2019-12-12T16:04:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T21:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27544"},"modified":"2019-12-12T16:04:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T21:04:01","slug":"link-in-bio-is-a-slow-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/12\/link-in-bio-is-a-slow-knife\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;Link in Bio&rdquo; Is a Slow Knife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anildash.com\/2019\/12\/10\/link-in-bio-is-how-they-tried-to-kill-the-web\/\">Anil Dash<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=21759826\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/anildash.com\/2019\/12\/10\/link-in-bio-is-how-they-tried-to-kill-the-web\/\"><p>We don&rsquo;t even notice it anymore &mdash; &ldquo;link in bio&rdquo;. It&rsquo;s 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&rsquo;s profile. Its presence is so subtle, and so pervasive, that we barely even noticed it was an attempt to kill the web.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>With billions of people using the major social platforms, and the people who remember a pre-social-media web increasing in age while decreasing as cultural force on the internet, we&rsquo;re rapidly losing fluency in what the internet <em>could<\/em> look like. We&rsquo;re almost forgotten that links are powerful, and that restraining links through artificial scarcity is an absurdly coercive behavior.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anil Dash (Hacker News): We don&rsquo;t even notice it anymore &mdash; &ldquo;link in bio&rdquo;. It&rsquo;s 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&rsquo;s profile. Its presence is so subtle, and so pervasive, that we barely even noticed it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-12-12T21:04:05Z","apple_news_api_id":"4ab86af0-d4dc-401e-a6f6-9b8a09268b21","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-12-12T21:04:06Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ASrhq8NTcQB6m9puKCSaLIQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1286,96],"class_list":["post-27544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-instagram","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27545,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27544\/revisions\/27545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}