They are also blocking noc.social (another mastodon instance). Wonder if more are impacted.
Twitter Blocks Linking to Mastodon.social
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#72Maybe there was some content on mastodon.social they didn't like. As they don't integrate with ActivityPub they can't block individual users so perhaps they chose to block the whole domain instead. It's not like they're cutting off the whole Fediverse. There are hundreds (thousands?) of mastadon instances and none of the others will be affected by this.
They are also blocking noc.social (another mastodon instance). Wonder if more are impacted.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
> After all, it’s their right to as a private company. Why do people always use the term "private company"? Twitter is a publicly owned corporation. If the Musk deal goes through, it'll be private. But I'm not sure what work the word "private" is supposed to be doing.
"Private company", in this context, means "not the government". The opposite would be "public sector", referring to the government or companies it owns/runs.
Except, how many government owned companies are there in the US?
What's the point in saying "private company" if 99.99+% of companies are private?
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#75This is likely the same reason that sometimes links on FB can't be pasted. There's a spike in usage and some anti-spam mechanism blocks it. Which makes sense, but sometimes catches the wrong URL just like every spam filter. Give it a day, move along.
Delete tiwtter, move along.
FTFY
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#76I bet it's likely a bug. There were times i wasnt able to post LinkedIn urls in the past. I bet it's their crawler/integrity service having hard time. Never assume malice when it can be sufficiently explained by a bug or incompetence.
> Never assume malice when it can be sufficiently explained by a bug or incompetence. I find this to be a stupid way to look at things. Incompetence and malice are not mutually exclusive.
Incompetence and malice are not mutually exclusive.
Very good point. The latter may be used to distract from the former.
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#77I bet it's likely a bug. There were times i wasnt able to post LinkedIn urls in the past. I bet it's their crawler/integrity service having hard time. Never assume malice when it can be sufficiently explained by a bug or incompetence.
Nowadays, maybe let's assume malice. Maybe its a false positive and a bunch of people stop using twitter, Facebook, google, apple, or Microsoft as a result. That is less harmful (some might say it's good) than the opposite, where big corps use our collective desire to forgive as a tool to exploit us. You can apply that saying to your wife and kids. Or your neighbour. Big corps that make money off exploiting peoples n…
I would qualify this by saying the priors matter. Twitter has torched their credibility in a flaming dumpster fire. That changes how one might make assumptions.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nowadays, maybe let's assume malice. Maybe its a false positive and a bunch of people stop using twitter, Facebook, google, apple, or Microsoft as a result. That is less harmful (some might say it's good) than the opposite, where big corps use our collective desire to forgive as a tool to exploit us. You can apply that saying to your wife and kids. Or your neighbour. Big corps that make money off exploiting peoples n…
That must be a hard life assuming things are working against you
Amazon used to take down its EC2 servers where Netflix streamed their content during the early days of the streaming wars.
What of it? Are you actually so naive to think things aren't working against us?
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#79I bet it's likely a bug. There were times i wasnt able to post LinkedIn urls in the past. I bet it's their crawler/integrity service having hard time. Never assume malice when it can be sufficiently explained by a bug or incompetence.
Hanlon's razor does a good job of masking malice. I have to assume that's accidental, though.
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#80A lot of people here are jumping to conclusions based on what could simply be a bug. Why not wait 24hrs and see if this is actually some policy or just a mistake.
Yes. I tend to assume the people who are quick to think conspiracy and/or malice in these kinds of situations are either students or nontechnical users. If you've been working as a developer in the industry for a while, you've seen bugs like this many times.