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Source for that speculation?
Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion
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So others know where to find you - there's a bunch of tools for that, but unless you use the same one it doesn't work. Can't think of a more efficient way personally. Though I don't think anyone needs to be obnoxious about it with series of tweets and stuff.
Not sure I see what's obnoxious here - they've just found a couple of neat ways to circumvent bans on tweeting some URLs.
I wasn't referring to anything in the article or about including your Mastodon handle in your user name or description. Some people though keep tweeting how they "left Twitter", cross post content etc. I find that a wee bit obnoxious - but since I don't really use Twitter anymore it doesn't bother me, I could just understand someone wanting to take action based on it.
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So others know where to find you - there's a bunch of tools for that, but unless you use the same one it doesn't work. Can't think of a more efficient way personally. Though I don't think anyone needs to be obnoxious about it with series of tweets and stuff.
I’m surprised you feel the need to explain yourself to a comment like this
Seemed like a genuine question, I was trying to help by explaining my perspective.
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#34The pivot from “I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law”[1] to “I get to use censorship to kneecap a competitor because it’s my site now” was almost comically quick. [1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376
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There have been several reports of people updating their profile with links to their Mastodon profile only to be told by Twitter that the update failed because it contained malware and other such issues.
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Agreed. And the fact they are blocking mastodon shows it must be impacting Twitter user numbers.
Or, just as likely, mastodon users are elon critics and thus hurt his feelings, which is a bannable offense. Thus mastodon cross-posting and reposting is a proxy for bannable offenses, and therefore a bannable offense.
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Post is now accepting new users via a waitlist. It’s only a matter of time before it steals everyone worth stealing from Twitter.
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#37The pivot from “I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law”[1] to “I get to use censorship to kneecap a competitor because it’s my site now” was almost comically quick. [1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376
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Joinmastodon was suspended this past Thursday. It's since been reinstated.
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I'm not going to fact-check this article for obvious reasons, but is this article referring to actual CSAM or drawn artwork? The author seems to be heavily implying the former but I suspect it's actually the latter.
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#39I'm exactly in the target demographic that desperately wants a a return to the old, decentralized, protocol-based internet. We need working alternatives to Twitter to prevent a single mentally unstable billionaire from having this kind of power.
But everything about Mastodon seems badly designed and engineered. The focus on "servers" seems technologically anachronistic, but worse, fragments the community and creates (IMO) unacceptable privacy concerns. Self-hosting requires unnecessary hoops, loses some community functionality, and runs into the risk of "defederation", which only exacerbates the problem of servers being overly important. If you do decide to go with one of the existing servers, and hadn't been there early enough to get into one of those run by the foundation, you're basically required to trust your online identity and private message secrecy to an anonymous activist admin with a kitty avatar.
Why Twitter should feel threatened by this clusterfuck at all is a mystery to me.
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Because most of the tech sphere is all in when it comes to rooting for a certain political side and for its associated worldview, some call it “liberal” but is anything but. They deserve everything that is coming their way, after 2+ years of those people banning and cancelling other people and stuff based on “science!” and the like (I’m triple vaccinated, adding this because it needs to be added, as that’s the level…
> Because most of the tech sphere is all in when it comes to rooting for a certain political side and for its associated worldview Huh? People I know in tech range from communists to anarchists to hard libertarian. “Tech”, however you define it, is hardly a monolith.
Glad to hear, but I get a totally different impression from forums like this one, from following a couple of techies on Twitter or from actual campaign contributions info (I’m talking about the US).
Also from the info of that Google tech guy that got fired after an internal memo, or of the creator of JavaScript the language also getting the boot.