Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮Twitter is banning Mastodon URLs as unsafe now? Even this modestly sized instance? This is UNHINGED behavior.
Jake Jarvis 
@shanselman interestingly, my one-man server over here doesn't trigger it — so somebody must have taken the time to compile a literal blacklist of the top domains? 🤔
Nican@jake @shanselman even the furry focused domain meow.social is blocked.
We are still trying to figure out where the Blocklist came from.
ellesystemDefinitely not normal behavior. You can circumvent it (for now) with url shorteners
or, hilariously, by capitalizing one letter of the URL since they fired all of the actual coders (haven't tried it myself)
Capitalization didn't work for me. I tried adding port 443 to the url and still no dice. They're going to Streisand harder and harder until the rabble stops rousing, I guess
@ellesystem @shanselman ah shoot. guess somebody searched stack overflow for regex real quick. 🧠
Tim Kellogg
brocolie (tots not a vampire)
mrbretticus 🤷♂️@ellesystem @shanselman although #twitter allowed me to change my profile URL when shortened, I still get the same warning on redirection for bitly and others
Jake in Oregon 👾 
@shanselman that’s why we are here, and not there. 🙂
Sam Morreel@shanselman Either intentional or it's slowly starting to crumble from a lack of talent / resources to maintain it.
There's no *way* this is unintentional...
Mr. Fred 🔥@shanselman
"Mister Musk, users are leaving and they're saying and I quote it is due to the unhinged CEO"
"It is a conspiracy! We're being discriminated against by powerful activists! Get the ban hammer!"
Lundy Orlando Tjandra@shanselman well elon gonna elon. So much for so called free speech.
Kevin Miller@shanselman man that Scott dude is always talking about raspberry pi and C64 stuff. He needs to bend a knee for the lead head twit. Or bam..., banned.
@shanselman yup, I'd say I am surprised, but...
Alexander Suero
Adrienne 📊@shanselman also Twitter abruptly suspends more than half a dozen journalists
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/15/twitter-journalists-suspended-musk/
@shanselman just an example of how freedom of speech is not in the hands of one billionaire, but in all of our hands collectively.
ESG@shanselman They linked to the plane tracking account on Mastodon. Everyone who does gets banned apparently.
Rick Minerich 🔥@shanselman seems like he’s totally lost it
Marcus Griep 
@Rickasaurus @shanselman I totally read this message wrong before I realized that it was a reply referring to the birdsite owner.
Jono Ferguson@shanselman i wish I could say I was surprised by this behavior.
Matt Eland@shanselman yeah, you convinced me that the time is right to come here.
Maybe Musk is a genius fighting fire with fire. Tr*mp makes a "big announcement" so Musk does something to take all the attention away.
Maybe Musk is determined for Tr*mp to have to strip naked and stroll down 5th avenue if he wants to make a front page ever again.
Or Musk could be what he seems, and this is all on theme for the imminent collapse of American society.
Steven Maguire 
@shanselman Space Karen is going into plaid rage mode
City Techie 
@shanselman Run the link through a URL shortener like bit.ly and include the double-@ email-style handle beside it.
Bill Messmer@shanselman I didn’t really want to leave Twitter. After tonight’s banning of journalists and this, I’ve pretty much had enough of the clown show…. Sigh…
Steve @ardalis Smith 
૮༼⚆︿⚆༽つ / Wildan@shanselman good news, appending query string might works (for now)
Alternatively, use valid uncommon url path like ../ or :443
https://twitter.com/SoatokDhole/status/1603564684099166213?t=XokwW4vAj0kpu-qgrMaHAw&s=19
Mastodon: [email protected], Cohost: soatok on Twitter
“You too can link to the Elon Musk Jet account on Mastodon Social with a trivial filter bypass. Just append a query string. Good job firing all your security staff, Elon.”
Kyle K 
@shanselman Billionaire man-baby is getting fed up and taking his toys elsewhere!
Sam Thurston 
@shanselman truly bananas overreach. Perhaps one man of tender ego surrounded by lickspittle flacks isn't the best choice to run "the town square"
Nathanael NerodeI think it's too late to install hinges on Elon Musk, he insisted on being unhinged some years back.
Has he reached "danger to himself and others" stage where he can be involuntarily committed? Probably not yet.
Dan Shick@shanselman it’s targeted behavior
Nick The Time Miser@shanselman yup, happened to me too when I tried to post my mastodon profile link
@nscottg ya maybe use a bitly
@shanselman I just posted a screenshot of my tweet with the link written out, they can't stop me! :)
Derek 🌈@shanselman maybe look at it as a honor. Mine is still allowed 😞
@shanselman on a side note. It is 100000% #ridiculous
Sabrina/Brie@shanselman of course Elon is unhinged - he fires employees at the drop of a hat
dogcanyon 🦂@shanselman I put my hachyderm link in my Twitter profile so people can find me.
David Stosik@shanselman They suspended @joinmastodon. WTF.