Your "just a pointer" links already exists in a lot of places and you won't be able to update them all. In a few days who knows who will buy the domain and what will become of it, and where all these already existing links will point to.
.to is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of the island kingdom of Tonga.
Are you disagreeing with my use of "shady", or something else in particular?
.io is a shady ccTLD too, assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory.
I can understand why .io may be considered "shady" because it was assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory but the native people of this region didn't receive anything from .io.
I had to go back and look and yes, when Bitly was founded in 2008, Libya was still ruled by Gaddafi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_in_Libya
also followed the link and yes the government has seized one other shortening service which used .ly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitly#Alternative_domains
https://www.pcmag.com/archive/libya-seizes-url-shortener-vbl...
We can say it's different now or something but I wouldn't put money behind it.
Imagine if they put the same amount of effort into ridiculing old growth logging, strip mining, tax evasion, wealth inequality... literally anything but trying to dunk on some nerds playing around with cryptography to try and create a new trustless financial system.
This is why the problem solvers benefit the most in the early days, and why my early investments in ETH are still worth 3100% more than when i started even after the latest corrections. It is easy to recognize issues, but putting effort into actually doing something about it is where new developments actually occur.
Okay, this is really not what's at play here. I would highly encourage you to read The Politics of Bitcoin by David Golumbia, and will not participate further in this discussion with someone who has personal investments at stakes and who can therefore not be neutral and is already using fallacious arguments (no one said "broken link = broken platform", you're the one making this up) and ad hominem accusations.
Why? It's basically been like that since the days of Geocities. More broken links, more people go elsewhere to find what they are looking for, now you no longer have traffic because people know they can find the information in a more reliable fashion elsewhere, and now you fail because you don't have enough traffic and actual customers providing that traffic to keep business going.