RainhardDec 16, 2022
#twitter is treating links to #mastodon as #malware. Now prevents users from adding them to their bio or profile.
Show threadRainhard
...and I thought I'd recently heard big words about "freedom of speech" wrt to that platform. 🍿
Dec 16, 2022 at 11:11amWeb
Show threadRainhardDec 16, 2022
For documentation: that's what I had in my URL field and was considered "malware", hence prevented the bio update.
Show threadWaLLy3K ​Dec 16, 2022
@rainhard I'm wondering when they'll take action against accounts who linked their profile prior to the filtering of instance domains.
Show threadRainhardDec 16, 2022
@wally3k Same. I have that link in my twttr profile for a while already. For now it just prevents me from making any twttr bio or profile updates due to that "malware" claim.
Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙Dec 16, 2022
@rainhard @wally3k the link in my profile is to Infosec.exchange. If I try to edit my profile, I am unable to save it because it says the link is malware.
Show threadWaLLy3K ​Dec 16, 2022
@jerry @rainhard Yeah, I guess my profile bio is now immortalised until someone high up decides to go all Buffy the Vampire Slayer on it!
Show threadRainhardDec 16, 2022
@jerry @wally3k Any idea if that's for specific Mastodon instances? Or did twttr really just ban new links to _all_ Mastodon?
Show threadWaLLy3K ​Dec 16, 2022

@rainhard @jerry The GetMastodon Tw account got banned, and I've seen people from other instances complain about the same issue.

I assume Tw has just gone "Top 100 fedi instances, cool, they're malicious now"

Show threadRainhardDec 16, 2022

@wally3k @jerry Ok, thx. Wow.

That's quite a move for a platform that has recently hammered heavily on the "free speech" topic 🍿.

Show threadWaLLy3K ​Dec 16, 2022
@rainhard The Lionel Hutz school of "Absolute! Free Speech?"
Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙Dec 16, 2022
@wally3k @rainhard that’s a reasonable explanation
Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙Dec 16, 2022
@rainhard @wally3k the suspicious is that they’ve taught the twitterbot to detect mastodon’s fingerprint and so any mastodon instance will have the same issue.
Show threadWaLLy3K ​Dec 16, 2022
@jerry @rainhard I saw someone else mention that their little instance wasn't affected, so I don't think it's "dynamic" in the fingerprint sense.
Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙Dec 16, 2022
@wally3k @rainhard interesting. I do know that many other mastodon instances were getting that treatment while Infosec.exchange was not - for quite a while. Perhaps it is a manual review.