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What's particularly strange is they seem (from the thread) to only be banning "mastodon.social" links, which are by far the least likely to be suspicious. Not
by woodruffw 4y ago
What's particularly strange is they seem (from the thread) to only be banning "mastodon.social" links, which are by far the least likely to be suspicious.
Not that I believe the excuse anyways; it's just remarkably flabby.
- tedunangst 4y agoNo, it's every masto instance (that I've been able to check).
- woodruffw 4y agoI just tried with infosec.exchange (which is a pretty large instance), and my profile edit went through. I also tried with my personal domain (which isn't hosting Mastodon, but has a WebFinger alias for a Mastodon instance), and it also worked.
- tedunangst 4y agoAh, I guess it will let you change it, but anyone clicking the link is warned it's unsafe. See links in https://mobile.twitter.com/JordanOnRecord/status/1603555252866801664 https://mobile.twitter.com/JordanOnRecord/status/16035552528... Or https://mobile.twitter.com/hacks4pancakes/status/1603501886275047424 https://mobile.twitter.com/hacks4pancakes/status/16035018862...
- woodruffw 4y agoInteresting! Yeah, I get a warning click-through with those as well.
- mgerdts 4y agoAlso hachyderm, which as of the last count I saw had over 30k users. https://hachyderm.io/@steveyackey/109521492988061127 https://hachyderm.io/@steveyackey/109521492988061127
- justsomehnguy 4y agothat's not how's it's done. There is a process there which goes by each posted links (and shortens them in tweets) and checks if there anything there. so technically you can shutdown the instance, post a link (if it wasn't previously "banned"), wait a couple of hours and bring the instance up. But it would be probably checked some time later. But come on, just make a simple page with 304 redirect on any platform.
- TomSwirly 4y agoNope, toot.community links are banned too, our Amsterdam Mastodon instance.