URLs containing any of the popular Mastodon servers are rejected by the Twitter API. Profile bios and URLs are now rejected if a user attempts to change them. All the major Mastodon sites are flagged, and Twitter is even checking 3XX redirects, transparent proxies, and URL/link shortening services for Mastodon related responses.
Twitter has flagged all the major Mastodon servers as malware
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#2Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34010112.
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#3What's the point of moving to Mastodon if you still need to promote your posts on Twitter? This seems like cognitive dissonance... rage quit Twitter, only to gripe about Twitter features. Just use Mastodon.
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#4Final straw :) Deactivated my account
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#5What's the point of moving to Mastodon if you still need to promote your posts on Twitter? This seems like cognitive dissonance... rage quit Twitter, only to gripe about Twitter features. Just use Mastodon.
Help others do the same and take away as much traffic as possible away
Re: Twitter has flagged all the major Mastodon servers as malware
#6What's the point of moving to Mastodon if you still need to promote your posts on Twitter? This seems like cognitive dissonance... rage quit Twitter, only to gripe about Twitter features. Just use Mastodon.
Help others do the same and take away as much traffic as possible away
Why? Mastodon will never take off.
Re: Twitter has flagged all the major Mastodon servers as malware
#7What's the point of moving to Mastodon if you still need to promote your posts on Twitter? This seems like cognitive dissonance... rage quit Twitter, only to gripe about Twitter features. Just use Mastodon.
Help others do the same and take away as much traffic as possible away
So they should facilitate losing their own users? And people think that it's somehow bad that they won't go along with it? I'm pretty sure YouTube won't let you advertise other video platforms in videos. It defeats the purpose of the platform, and it's a dumb ask. Obviously they will not allow that to the best of their abilities.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Help others do the same and take away as much traffic as possible away
So they should facilitate losing their own users? And people think that it's somehow bad that they won't go along with it? I'm pretty sure YouTube won't let you advertise other video platforms in videos. It defeats the purpose of the platform, and it's a dumb ask. Obviously they will not allow that to the best of their abilities.
That depends on what the purpose of the platform is, and since the owner had previously made a point of being keen on free speech, it's interesting that it's actually not being run in line with those ideals at all. We're now seeing that the carve outs from free speech include things that might reduce profit, and the reposting of public flight data.
Re: Twitter has flagged all the major Mastodon servers as malware
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
So they should facilitate losing their own users? And people think that it's somehow bad that they won't go along with it? I'm pretty sure YouTube won't let you advertise other video platforms in videos. It defeats the purpose of the platform, and it's a dumb ask. Obviously they will not allow that to the best of their abilities.
That depends on what the purpose of the platform is, and since the owner had previously made a point of being keen on free speech, it's interesting that it's actually not being run in line with those ideals at all. We're now seeing that the carve outs from free speech include things that might reduce profit, and the reposting of public flight data.
Yeah but then no one believes in free speech. It was much worse before, and the people who are leaving Twitter were the ones (presumably) justifying that other censorship.
My perspective is that at least now it's out in the open.