Judd Legum (@[email protected])

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Mastodon
People were saying you can't link to Mastodon, but it works for me. (Perhaps because I'm not on one of the big servers?)
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@juddlegum Maybe it doesn't work for blue checks, but we just put our mastadon account name after our twitter name. 🤣🤣💀🤞
@juddlegum I can't include a link to my account at masthead.social from Twitter. I've mostly quit Twitter but sometimes look for contacts there to invite them to Mastodon.

@juddlegum I tried linking on Twitter to Voice of America Steve Herman's journa.host account (he just got banned on Twitter) and kept getting an error in TweetDeck about "too many recent login attempts.

When I hid the journa.host link through tinyurl, my tweet went through fine. I'm guessing they added journa.host to their censorship blacklist.

@juddlegum another win for the decentralization strategy! #Mastodon
@juddlegum Journa.host no longer working.

@juddlegum suppose people will have to resort to some other means to get around the flag.

at mastodon dot social, that sort of thing

@juddlegum @Pat

Yep. Adding extra spaces to your @ works.

@juddlegum I tried to update my bio to break my Mastodon link so it wasn’t searchable, and I got this message that it’s malware. 😒
@lorisuzanne3 @juddlegum
That's the saddest error message I've ever seen, calling a description malware!?
Who the hell does he have working there doing this stuff?
@joeinwynnewood @lorisuzanne3 @juddlegum
Probably Visa programmers. You know, indentured servants...
@lorisuzanne3 @juddlegum I updated mine just now without problems.
@regnad_kcin @juddlegum Judd’s post says only a couple of instances are banned so far, and mine is one of them. Maybe Elmo just hasn’t gotten to yours yet? It lets me leave my unbroken link in my bio, but when I tried to change it, I got that message. Weird. But a half-assed, chaotic roll-out is kind of par for the course with Elmo, so who knows!
@juddlegum Still happening. Just did a test. Wouldn’t let me send it.

@juddlegum

mstdn.party seems to be banned as well.

Party pooper.

@juddlegum infosec.exchange banned as well
@juddlegum I just linked in my linktree (for the 3 people)
@juddlegum
Mastodon.world is not working either.
@juddlegum Can confirm. Tried to find friends’ Mastadon handles on Twitter, when I clicked on them Twitter said it was a potentially harmful link.
@juddlegum need to use a link shortener or post a screenshot of your profile/URL.
@juddlegum #elonmusk 's thought process ... "I hate those links" .. "but damn, I said "free speech"" ... "oh, I can make stuff up and say I'm scared!"

@juddlegum

stick the mastodon link in your twitter bio with the other stuff.

And if it doesn't work, try a capital letter (not sure if mastodon is case-sensitive but apparently some of twitter's recent blocks are)

@juddlegum Musk isn't just an asshole, he's an infantile asshole!
@juddlegum maybe they are monitoring mastodon.social instead of other instances?

@juddlegum hey, tiny-server…

Get me a soda.

@juddlegum "can't link to mastodon"? I'm not sure what that means. I have not heard that at all.
@stefan @juddlegum the musky bird site is informing users posting links to Mastodon that those links aren't safe. Some get them to tweet. Others are locked. Then, on some of those links, when following them, there's a warning about dangerous activities on Mastodon and to go back to the bird site, that is "safe".
@jt_rebelo @juddlegum ah I missed he meant from twitter. thanks!
@stefan @juddlegum you're welcome. I bet Post links are next (if not, I have to think Dollar Store Tony Stark is trying to steer people into it). Now I can't even send DM on the musky bird site that contain Mastodon related links...
@juddlegum I think mastodon.social is blocked on Twitter
@ygalanter @juddlegum seems mastodon links get a special warning now.
@juddlegum you can! I have been doing it on the server I’ve joined.
@juddlegum I get this when using Tweetdeck to my profile here.
@juddlegum Also, insert "Omae wa mou shindeiru" joke here

@juddlegum you can link to it, but it's in a wholly different server/planet/galaxy or whatever they call it from me, and others, so we are logged out and can't follow from the link (or I can't).

Searching your entire @user@server I am able to bring up anyone in any federation and follow them if I search from my masthead.social federation Portal. It is not a simple process, for sure.

@juddlegum Have you considered getting verified? https://www.presscheck.org/
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@juddlegum looks like it's fine form tweetdeck, but from he actual twitter site it pushes you to a "may be unsafe" page.
@juddlegum wish I knew how to get notifications for your posts.
@juddlegum You can't link from Mastodon to Mastodon? I don't think that's an issue. 
@juddlegum I got a content warning when clicking on your link
@juddlegum birdsite was blocking any mention of SDFs instance
@juddlegum he doesn't have enough fingers to plug the holes he created in his companies dyke. I'm enjoying watching him try, it's hilarious.