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  1. Jan 2021
    1. Ever since a certain car salesman tweeted “Use Signal”

      I've seen this linking pattern once or twice before in the wild. This is an obvious subtweet of Elon Musk, but the link is an archived version of a Tweet that is mirrored through Nitter. This is done to ensure that the original Tweet link is as heavily demoted as possible.

  2. Jan 2019
    1. Unlinked mentions…? What if you had an individual who was the subject of the text, but you didn’t want to notify them? You may want to include an unlinked @boffosocko, to refer to someone without summoning them. But—what if you wanted to link readers to the person without notifying them?

      I thought about this case in the not-so-recent-past and came up with the possibility of creating a "submention" similar to the idea of a subtweet. If you scroll down on that particular post, you'll see a response from Colin Walker about actually implementing it, which he implemented as a nomention plugin for WordPress.

      Of course doing things this way doesn't necessarily prevent the person from possibly seeing it through the natural course of events, others notifying them directly, or even the use of things like refbacks, which would send them notifications anyway. And then there's Voldemorting...