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Loremasters, what is happening here?
by schnebbau 4y ago
Loremasters, what is happening here?
- AbrahamParangi 4y agoTwitter is suppressing posts containing links to substack as well as at least one text post by substack itself explaining what’s going on. The suppression takes the form of likes and retweets being disabled and presumably reach limited. To add my personal opinion, it’s deeply pathetic.
- api 4y agoThis is in response to substack launching a potential Twitter competitor. They’ve done the same off and on to Mastodon, though after a while they backed off on that one a bit. Free speech!
- tehwebguy 4y agoAs of today (or yesterday?) if a tweet includes a link to a substack.com URL the tweet cannot be liked, retweeted or replied to. Likes will appear to work and then disappear. They can still be "quote tweeted". It's pretty funny because the individuals that Musk hand picked to give the "Twitter files" to all use Substack. They all embarrassed themselves by stretching what was mostly nothing into a huge story seemingly on his behalf before he turned his back on them.
- JumpCrisscross 4y agoAdding context: this follows Substack launching a Twitter-like short-messaging product.
- adamsb6 4y ago[flagged]
- lern_too_spel 4y agoNo need for scare quotes. https://mobile.twitter.com/19joho/status/1463540124407451659 https://mobile.twitter.com/19joho/status/1463540124407451659
- all2 4y agoBut "scare quotes" are effective! And better than that, they're "scary".
- tick_tock_tick 4y ago> mostly nothing Mostly is doing a lot of work there. Just the Federal government working with a private entity to censor speech in a clear abuse of power.