A link shortener is just an extra layer of complexity that can go wrong.

Reply to a poll about custom link shorteners

Personally I think a shortener is just an extra layer of complexity that can go wrong.

If you’re in control of your own URL scheme for your site you can make it human-readable and short enough to avoid word-wrap on email, and it’s not going to take up any extra space on Twitter, Mastodon or anything else unless you’re sending it in an actual SMS message.