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Yeah, it's easy to add and remove policy pages, but I imagine there's more work involved in blocking and unblocking Mastodon links. It's in Twitter's interest
by muglug 4y ago
Yeah, it's easy to add and remove policy pages, but I imagine there's more work involved in blocking and unblocking Mastodon links.
It's in Twitter's interest to say those links are now allowed, while still actually blocking them for at least another 24 hours to stem the outflow.
When they introduced the no-links-in-bio policy I imagine they had not actually written the code to scan 1 billion Twitter accounts for bios and tweets in violation of that policy.
- cormacrelf 4y agoMastodon links in tweets have been blocked by someone adding a rule list to the malware filter for the last couple of weeks. It was a silent change. They just decided to formally announce it and ant the same time expand that to non-link text, referring people to @username on <service>, writing AT facebook DOT com, etc. Since they introduced the link blocking silently, they will just leave it in place silently. Maybe they’ll get sued by a competition regulator in one of the dozen jurisdictions that this kind of thing is illegal in. (Edit, the rule list was not comprehensive, so you will find plenty of counter-examples. Possibly by design to make people think it isn’t happening.)