Twitter suspends Mastodon's account, making a good case for Mastodon • TechCrunch

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Twitter suspends Mastodon after it tweeted about Elon’s jet

Twitter has suspended Mastodon’s official Twitter account. The account appears to have been suspended for violating Twitter’s new policy against sharing live locations.

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@stux why does it look like the @[email protected] is suspended when I try to follow it? but looks active when following the direct link? https://mastodon.social/@elonjet
@stux He’s a hypocritical crybaby.
@stux when looking up other accounts to follow, I get message that I have no access to other servers. If you don’t mind explaining this restriction, I’m still new to this site. Thanks.

@stux

Musk's brand of freedom is the same kind so many religious groups wanted when coming to the New World. They want to be free to do what they want to whoever they want.

Rather than throwing away the whip of oppression they grabbed the handle.

@stux why can't I view the elonjet account?

nvm, after restarting tooot I could see it again

@stux

Fashiz gonna do what Fashiz always do.

Only surprise is how long it took him to pull this maneuver

@stux I guess Elon doesn't like open-source software or a free checkmark
@stux I gotta say: people who stick around on Twitter are quickly looking worse and worse in my estimation.
@stux and you were so great at letting us know the Mastdon addresses of all the Twitter defectors were going too
@stux I said this a few ago, but this feels like one of the last nails in the coffin for Twitter.
@stux I mean, mastodon isn't great. It kinda needs a better community for any kind of great case to be made for it. It's mostly just people complaining about twitter, case in point here.
@cigarette @stux I don't feel that's true, do you need help finding people who toot about something else?
@arguil @stux your profile pic would beg to disagree
@cigarette @stux haha, touché. But to be fair it's an old one.

@stux  and it's users make their own case for using #Mastodon.

That continuing nonsense just makes an airtight case for not using 

@stux yup, 'cause it's all about freedom of speech and freedom of choice...
@stux To me, this is another spanner in the #mastodon quiver of tools. There are far too many (tiny) instances for #elon #musk #birdsite to block. Too many .TLD's. I'm thrilled. If popular authors / bots / agencies would diversify their presence in the #Fediverse instead of congregating on particular instances, the curve would be insurmountable
- suspension would have no teeth.

@dumbo @stux I've been banned from many places.

#birdsite is the one time where I'm actively enjoying the process because at this point I see it as a badge of honor.

'You Annoyed the Muskrat in Chief enough he doesn't want you around to scare potential victims and investors.'

@stux I've still managed to retweet one of my daily reminders of my profile here, so far, so good! And good meowing to you 😺
@stux This morning 1000s of Twitter users will be asking "Mastadon? What is Mastadon? I must try it" And so thank you Elon Musk for the free advertising.