Mastodon 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 d

Mastodon 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.)