Blocking links to X / Twitter on Mastodon.

Did some testing, and looks like the best way to filter out posts linking to X is to add the following filters:

#Twitter #TwitterBlock #Mastodon

WAILEA, Hawaii–I’m spending the next four days here in the middle of the Pacific, but not for fun. Instead, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit has called me here as it did in 2023, with Qualcomm once again covering airfare and lodging. I’ll be covering the event for PCMag, and a disclosure about that in all the copy that I file from here.

Patreon readers got a bonus post this week about the lengths to which I went to chisel away at the cost of a new Brother multi-function color laser printer, ultimately knocking $130 off the $369.99 list price of this model.

10/15/2024: Google Ships Android 15, Unwraps New Pixel Drop for Recent Devices, PCMag

Eight months after my first post for PCMag about Android 15, I wrote about its official release. I installed it on a Pixel 8a four days later and, as I wrote here Saturday evening, found it an initially unremarkable upgrade. To repeat a reminder I offered in that post: Don’t forget to activate the new anti-theft features in this update that are not enabled by default.

10/18/2024: X’s New Rules: Blocked Posts Will No Longer Be Hidden, Your Tweets Will Train Grok AI, PCMag

The upcoming terms of service allowing AI scraping, the first change I noticed, seemed like it might not be newsworthy since X has been doing that for months. But then I also spotted the weird “liquidated damages” provision and and another requiring that any lawsuits against the company be brought in courts in a different part of Texas–and I realized that my client had not yet covered how X has begun notifying its users that the block function is about to be downgraded to a mute tool.

10/18/2024: Bluesky Boom: X Alternative Sees Surge Of Signups, PCMag

Before PCMag had gotten around to publishing my “ToS” piece, I saw another post emerging in what looks like a serious flight of users from X to Bluesky. The growth in user numbers–the decentralized platform crossed the 12-million-account line Friday–isn’t nearly as impressive as the way Bluesky’s apps have skyrocketed up the charts in the Android and iOS app stores. As of Sunday evening, Bluesky’s iOS app is ranked 19th in free apps and fourth in social apps, while its Android client is fourth and third, respectively.

It’s been equally striking to see so many old friends from Twitter who had set up Bluesky accounts start using them–especially among avgeek circles, something that’s on my mind more than usual having spent so much of this month and this day on airplanes. I’m now waiting/hoping to see more people in Virginia and Arlington politics do likewise–and if the Harris-Walz campaign will start posting on Bluesky.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/10/20/weekly-output-android-15-x-changes-the-rules-again-bluesky-boom/

#Android15 #Bluesky #ElonMuskTwitter #GrokAI #Hawaii #PixelDrop #Qualcomm #SnapdragonSummit #TwitterBlock #X #XTerms

Today Twitter announced changes to the Block feature that may breach GDPR in Europe and may also breach App Store rules on Google, Apple and others

You can report the app on @GooglePlay store by following the info in the pic

#TwitterBlock

https://x.com/XEng/status/1846605254864888180

File under "No sh*t Sherlock." The mainstream media decides that X, formerly known as Twitter, getting shut down in Brazil "Is bad for Elon Musk."

The insight, the depth of analysis... This is why people are happy to pay for legacy media ... (That's sarcasm by the way).

#twitter #elonmusk #brazil #twitterblock #mainstreammedia

Wow. Is Musk genuinely trying to orchestrate a mass departure from Twitter. Getting rid of the #TwitterBlock is a surefire way to make the site unusable/incredibly unpleasant to use for many, many, many users.

It's also the most petulant man-child thing imaginable.

Soviel dazu, @[email protected] @verbuchstabiert 😂

#ElonMusk #Twitter #twitterblock

https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/110913204619596702

Hahahahahahahaha absolutely fuck that nonsense, and a bonus fuck you to #JackDorsey and #BlueSky and all.

Corrosively stupid narcissistic wreckers, burning the world down around themselves because they think they’re clever.

#ElonMusk #Twitter #twitterblock