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Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion

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Re: Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion

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Post by littlestymaar »

charcircuit wrote: post #2

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> 1. It's not an "anti-Mastadon" filter. It's a security feature of twitter's URL shortener for preventing spammers, malware spreaders, etc from propagating links to their stuff both on anb off twitter.

They've repurposed an existing Twitter tool (what else could they do, with nobody left to implement new tools?) to block Mastodon, but that's an active move to try and block Mastodon nonetheless.

Re: Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion

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Post by smcl »

fhd2 wrote: post #5
hcks wrote: post #3

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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.

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Post by wutwutwutwut »

hcks wrote: post #3

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> Also why do you need to post links on Twitter, i though you were leaving the platform?

If you change your address, it makes sense to share your new address with contacts? If you change cell provider because they suck you probably would give your new phone number to your contacts. How is this not 100% obvious to you?

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Post by cinntaile »

dannyobrien wrote: post #7
hcks wrote: post #3

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why can't I post links to my mastodon.social posts then? (I'm on Twitter, and I've been in Mastodon for many years -- this hasn't been the case before). Can you post links to mastodon.social on Twitter?

Imagine buying something for $44 billion and due to your own actions causing a mass exodus to Mastodon. Of course you're going to try and make the exodus as hard as possible.

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Post by srajabi »

I wonder how long before Twitter patches this, one thought is that since they've fired so many people they may not be executing well enough to patch this quickly.

Also, is there a way to do this where they won't be able to patch? Maybe alternate domain names for these known domain names that are being blocked, similar to what thePirateBay did.

Re: Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion

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Post by permo-w »

fhd2 wrote: post #5
hcks wrote: post #3

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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

Re: Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion

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Post by matwood »

paulgb wrote: post #10

The 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

Agreed. And the fact they are blocking mastodon shows it must be impacting Twitter user numbers.

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Post by kazinator »

srajabi wrote: post #16

I wonder how long before Twitter patches this, one thought is that since they've fired so many people they may not be executing well enough to patch this quickly. Also, is there a way to do this where they won't be able to patch? Maybe alternate domain names for these known domain names that are being blocked, similar to what thePirateBay did.

How long before Twitter's knee-jerk, whack-a-mole patching causes some regression due to insufficient QA, accelerating Twitter's demise?

Re: Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion

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Post by paganel »

hcks wrote: post #3

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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 of discourse we’ve got to in the West in the last few years).
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