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There are two ways this could have happened: 1) Twitter/Elon has made the conscious decision to censor all references to Mastodon in an attempt to retain marke

There are two ways this could have happened: 1) Twitter/Elon has made the conscious decision to censor all references to Mastodon in an attempt to retain market share. 2) Somebody shared something bad with a mastodon.social link, and Twitter's always-creaky moderation systems, now nerfed and defunded by Elon, completely failed to realize the implications and added mastodon.social to the same global domain ban list as viruses4u.ru and freeviagra.xxx etc. My money is actually on #2, because the ban only appears to impact mastodon.social and not any other Mastodon instance, but I guess we'll find out once this hits mainstream news and Twitter has to make a public decision on this.

cldellow 4y ago
infosec.exchange and hachyderm.io appear to be affected as well -- at least, I can't tweet links to them, nor put links to them in my bio.
tedunangst 4y ago
So apparently the edit ban only affects mastodon.social, but links to any mastodon instance even those that don't have it in the name, are flagged as unsafe and require a clickthrough. It's very uneven.
MishaalRahman 4y ago
Links to androiddev.social are banned on Twitter as well right now.
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mwcremer 4y ago
Maybe https://mastodon.social/@elonjet https://mastodon.social/@elonjet
andreyk 4y ago
As others have said, it is not allowed to post links with tweets to any Mastodon instance (see https://sigmoid.social/@thegradient/109521197175376332 https://sigmoid.social/@thegradient/109521197175376332 for a screenshot)
- autoexec 4y ago
  Is there a nitter equivalent for Mastodon? Something that allows a link to be viewed without Javascript?
  - Matl 4y ago
    https://brutaldon.org https://brutaldon.org
  - stefandesu 4y ago
    I didn't realize Mastodon only worked with JavaScript enabled. That sucks. I like Mastodon a lot, but this decision feels hostile. Edit: Seems like they don't plan to change it either: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/6186 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/6186
    - calgarymicro 4y ago
      You can get an RSS feed for any account by appending .rss to the URL, i.e. https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon.rss https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon.rss Not sure if that helps
      - autoexec 4y ago
        Yeah, that actually works pretty well! Thanks!
      - Matl 4y ago
        Aside from alternative web clients like https://brutaldon.org https://brutaldon.org, CLI ones, desktop ones etc. It has an open API, see https://joinmastodon.org/apps https://joinmastodon.org/apps for an incomplete list.
      - stefandesu 4y ago
        Forgot about that, that's awesome!
    - TomSwirly 4y ago
bentcorner 4y ago
I think it's a fair assumption that #2 happened, but as time goes on with no transparency (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1598858533608431617 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1598858533608431617), it begins to look like #1.
monksy 4y ago
mtsdn.social (or the similar domain) is coming up with a "this is a harmful url" prompt. https://ibb.co/kx0cdFK https://ibb.co/kx0cdFK
ncr100 4y ago
It's 1.
TomSwirly 4y ago
I can rule out #2, because as of this AM I can't post my Mastodon account in a Twitter message, and it's https://toot.community/@TomSwirly https://toot.community/@TomSwirly Toot is a small, high-quality Amsterdam server with a very civilized userbase.
ColinWright 4y ago
> "... the ban only appears to impact mastodon.social and not any other Mastodon instance, ..." This turns out not to be the case. It's looking like nearly all, if not actually all, Mastodon instances, including mine.
- wlonkly 4y ago
  Some evidence towards "all": The 600-user Halifax, NS instance, halifaxsocial.ca, is affected.

cldellow 4y ago

infosec.exchange and hachyderm.io appear to be affected as well -- at least, I can't tweet links to them, nor put links to them in my bio.

tedunangst 4y ago

So apparently the edit ban only affects mastodon.social, but links to any mastodon instance even those that don't have it in the name, are flagged as unsafe and require a clickthrough. It's very uneven.

MishaalRahman 4y ago

Links to androiddev.social are banned on Twitter as well right now.

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mwcremer 4y ago

Maybe https://mastodon.social/@elonjet https://mastodon.social/@elonjet

andreyk 4y ago

As others have said, it is not allowed to post links with tweets to any Mastodon instance (see https://sigmoid.social/@thegradient/109521197175376332 https://sigmoid.social/@thegradient/109521197175376332 for a screenshot)

autoexec 4y ago
Is there a nitter equivalent for Mastodon? Something that allows a link to be viewed without Javascript?
- Matl 4y ago
  https://brutaldon.org https://brutaldon.org
- stefandesu 4y ago
  I didn't realize Mastodon only worked with JavaScript enabled. That sucks. I like Mastodon a lot, but this decision feels hostile. Edit: Seems like they don't plan to change it either: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/6186 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/6186
  - calgarymicro 4y ago
    You can get an RSS feed for any account by appending .rss to the URL, i.e. https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon.rss https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon.rss Not sure if that helps
    - autoexec 4y ago
      Yeah, that actually works pretty well! Thanks!
    - Matl 4y ago
      Aside from alternative web clients like https://brutaldon.org https://brutaldon.org, CLI ones, desktop ones etc. It has an open API, see https://joinmastodon.org/apps https://joinmastodon.org/apps for an incomplete list.
    - stefandesu 4y ago
      Forgot about that, that's awesome!
  - TomSwirly 4y ago

bentcorner 4y ago

I think it's a fair assumption that #2 happened, but as time goes on with no transparency (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1598858533608431617 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1598858533608431617), it begins to look like #1.

monksy 4y ago

mtsdn.social (or the similar domain) is coming up with a "this is a harmful url" prompt. https://ibb.co/kx0cdFK https://ibb.co/kx0cdFK

ncr100 4y ago

It's 1.

TomSwirly 4y ago

I can rule out #2, because as of this AM I can't post my Mastodon account in a Twitter message, and it's https://toot.community/@TomSwirly https://toot.community/@TomSwirly Toot is a small, high-quality Amsterdam server with a very civilized userbase.

ColinWright 4y ago

> "... the ban only appears to impact mastodon.social and not any other Mastodon instance, ..." This turns out not to be the case. It's looking like nearly all, if not actually all, Mastodon instances, including mine.

wlonkly 4y ago
Some evidence towards "all": The 600-user Halifax, NS instance, halifaxsocial.ca, is affected.