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Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#81
> Additionally, we allow paid advertisement/promotion for any of the prohibited social media platforms.

So is it only the official “verified” account that can promote their alternative or can any individual pay twitter to promote the platform as a way to circumvent this policy?

Feels not well thought out.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#82
post #19

"Thin-skinned narcissist buys criticism machine." This is not "free speech absolutism" in the slightest. It's not even business-savvy. Elon's mask has truly cracked, and he proves he is nothing but a febrile mind who has bought into his own hype.

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Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#84
Let’s help people get off this ship

Tools to migrate to mastodon:

Archive your data and repost to mastodon:

https://twitter.com/settings/download_your_data

https://github.com/FGRibreau/import-tweets-to-mastodon

Find accounts you follow on mastodon:

Browser Extension

- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mastodon-handles-i...

Using API

- https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/ (thanks @guerrilla)

- https://www.movetodon.org/ (thanks @NelsonMinar)

- https://fedifinder.glitch.me/

- https://twitodon.com/

(Please suggest more!)

Where to start: Create an account on https://mastodon.social and go from there!

I hear twitter are limiting API access, I’m going to start writing a browser extension to copy your posts over as simply as possible

Will push code here! https://github.com/haxiomic/twitter-to-mastodon/

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#86
This looks incredibly awful. People aren't allowed to plug their Instagrams for self or brand promotion? This seems like something that will definitely hurt small artists looking to spread their reach and expand their businesses in terms of finding commissions and customers. This seems backwards and genuinely unhinged

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#87
post #19

"Thin-skinned narcissist buys criticism machine." This is not "free speech absolutism" in the slightest. It's not even business-savvy. Elon's mask has truly cracked, and he proves he is nothing but a febrile mind who has bought into his own hype.

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Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#89
post #80

People here can't even read a few paragraphs on a link posted? > We recognize that certain social media platforms provide alternative experiences to Twitter, and allow users to post content to Twitter from these platforms. In general, any type of cross-posting to our platform is not in violation of this policy, even from the prohibited sites listed above. This is just about people who basically stop using Twitter and…

But you're not allowed to have your ig username in your bio. That's not "people who basically stop using Twitter and post a link to follow their profile on a different social media site instead"

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#90
post #80

People here can't even read a few paragraphs on a link posted? > We recognize that certain social media platforms provide alternative experiences to Twitter, and allow users to post content to Twitter from these platforms. In general, any type of cross-posting to our platform is not in violation of this policy, even from the prohibited sites listed above. This is just about people who basically stop using Twitter and…

And how does one do that if every post to mastodon is flagged as malware?
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