Why this strange link to vger.to? It just redirects to https://lemmy.world/post/1433287 and serves no purpose that I would understand.
Yeah, it's a Voyager (the app) thing. It's the default now when sharing a link. I'm not sure why, it seems completely useless, more expensive for the devs, and a privacy problem for everyone else (redirect links are a form of tracking).
Friendly reminder for everyone using Voyager to turn it off. I already did.
No idea. I copied from a different instance (nsfw). Maybe that why.
You can edit your post to change the link if you wish [to remove a layer of redirection]. Or even edit to directly the final destination of straitstimes com....
I did. Looks like vger.to is some sort of Voyager related redirecting thing. Totally unnecessary yup but its there for any Voyager link I try to copy.
You shouldnt have to "copy" anything. Just use the crosspost feature which automatically creates a copy of the entire original post and posts it into the community of your choice. If your client doesnt support crossposting then its shit and you should use a different client.
Compare the pictures of everyone fit with clean air cycling to work in Beijing in the 70s and 80s, with piles of ebikes dumped in huge piles in a smog-laden Beijing of the 2010's as fossil-fuel-powered capitalism has grown to the point everyone is driving cars.
Pretty sad and stupid. Bikes are one of the greatest designs - in terms of efficiency - humankind has ever come up with.
They're just making life worse for truly disabled people. Me-first mentally at its finest... ๐
Can you elaborate your point? Is if because they increase traffic for disabled people? Or because this may trigger restrictions for wheelchairs?
Restrictions for wheelchairs, generating ill-will towards people riding wheelchairs, driving up the cost of buying a wheelchair perhaps, if those people create a shortage...
The guy looks a bit like Dr Evil.
You guys realise the article is from almost two years ago, right? And I've never saw young and healthy people actually commute in a wheelchair on purpose.
Its not about when but what.
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