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> It used to be a bannable offense to even link to your presence on a competing site Huh? This sounds like you mean before elon "free speech!" musk but I can o
by lucb1e 6mo ago
> It used to be a bannable offense to even link to your presence on a competing site
Huh? This sounds like you mean before elon "free speech!" musk but I can only imagine that, if it ever was a thing, it was a thing after. At some point a competitor's links were being blocked, a little 'oops'ie with 'the algorithm' of course. Facebook also pulled some of those over the years. I don't know about outright bans though, especially concerning Twitter before Musk
- darknavi 6mo agoI can't tell if you're being satirical or if this is some 1984 re-writing of history, but Twitter definitely banned linking to other social media websites under Elon's rule. > "We know that many of our users may be active on other social media platforms; however, going forward, Twitter will no longer allow free promotion of specific social media platforms on Twitter," the company said in a statement. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/twitter-bans-linking-to-facebook-instagram-other-rival-platforms https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/twitter-bans-linking-to... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/18/business/twitter-ban-social-media-competitors-mastodon.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/18/business/twitter-ban-soci...
- theshackleford 6mo agoYou seem to have misunderstood them because they are saying the same thing.
- lucb1e 6mo agoDon't know why downvoted, this is correct. Thanks for pointing it out sooner than I got around to
- lucb1e 6mo ago> under Elon's rule that's precisely what I assumed Genuinely thanks for doing the effort of looking for sources and correcting someone you thought was wrong, but the allegation of me singlehandedly (just the thought! :D) trying to rewrite history maybe goes a bit far when I said it was just my assumption and that I don't know of such a thing before elonmusk took over