Lyndylou
dagIt is now "unsafe" to click on a Mastodon link on Twitter.
Even if that link is in your Twitter bio.
There is no good reason for this anti-competitive behaviour.
elliot π©πͺ πͺπΊ π¬π§ π³οΈβπ@davidallengreen curious to know which of those rules they think it breaks. Not that it matters, since Elon makes the rules and does what he likes regardless.
Andrew@els76uk @davidallengreen I don't feel like reading through the Twitter Rules link, but maybe they could argue that linking to Mastodon coudl disrupt people's experience of Twitter. It did for me, permanently!
Hank Layfield@els76uk @davidallengreen every listed concern is true about Twitter, so I guess they should shut that website down.
stringer@davidallengreen feels like the biggest compliment to mastodon he could make
Phil Hartup@davidallengreen Plenty of bad reasons though, and those are Musk's favourite.
StephenWC@davidallengreen It's all a bit '1984' isn't it?
Dreadnought Holiday@davidallengreen predictably enough the Streisand effect is kicking in though - the number of people following me here has just shot up this morning
Ed Rial@davidallengreen it depends on your perspective?
From most of us there's no good reason, but if you're thin-skinned billionaire who is convinced the world is out to get him... π€·ββοΈ
Stephen Cox Author@davidallengreen The link does work in my experience. But this is astonishing and undermines any trust in any Twitter process
Martijn Linssen@davidallengreen you can't put a Mastodon link into your profile anymore either
Martin Escardo@mlinssen @davidallengreen But I have one that I had added before the ban.
@MartinEscardo yes, so do I. Bit of a collector's item now!
CultureStorm
Craig Stuart@davidallengreen Real β Itβs ma baw an youse are no playinβ vibes!
72Degrees aka Pete Fisher@davidallengreen
Absolute power...
Absolute power...
Rat Poison@davidallengreen Who in the UK (or even just E&W) could enforce after or seek address for breaches of competition law, if arguendo this is a business abusing its dominant position in a market? Is it just the Competition and Markets Authority? https://www.gov.uk/guidance/tell-the-cma-about-a-competition-or-market-problem or are there other possible actors?
Muz@davidallengreen
Surely the EU is going to take a bit of an interest in this from an anti-competition standpoint?
Surely the EU is going to take a bit of an interest in this from an anti-competition standpoint?
BΓ‘lint Szilakszi@Muz @davidallengreen Iβve been wondering the same thing - would this be problematic for Twitter from a legal point of view?
Andreas K@szbalint
With the current management the birdsite is creating legal troubles for itself on a conveyor belt. FTC consent degree, GDPR compliance setup are two big ones that the big bully ruined in his first weeks at the helm.
At in the EU new shiny laws come in force for platforms that rewire GDPR compliance as a basic premise, and which the EC will enforce, not the lame Irish DPA.
@Muz @davidallengreen
@yacc143 @szbalint @davidallengreen
*Interest* has been shown..
https://twitter.com/VeraJourova/status/1603689440710369281?t=1cACW9c3FrSo-x42iTbhoA&s=19
VΔra JourovΓ‘ on Twitter
βNews about arbitrary suspension of journalists on Twitter is worrying. EUβs Digital Services Act requires respect of media freedom and fundamental rights. This is reinforced under our #MediaFreedomAct. @elonmusk should be aware of that. There are red lines. And sanctions, soon.β
Sylv@Muz yeah, but probably too late. @davidallengreen
excogπ¦
Whatever. Think he's got massive insurance and is trying to break the company to have the money to pay back the people who invested in the take over (It wasn't just his dosh) and a little bit besides. This idea from Cory Doctorow's take on the recording industry.
Where there are interesting tweets which can be embedded in a toot rather than go to the both of finding the URL and tooting it, there's no prob though!
Though not too much of that I suppose.
John OβDonnell@excog @davidallengreen
I wouldnβt be mucking around if I owed the Saudis $13bn. They can get a bit tetchy.
I wouldnβt be mucking around if I owed the Saudis $13bn. They can get a bit tetchy.
Nick Norton@davidallengreen Meelon has also suspended Mastodon's Twitter account, because...
PieMan70@davidallengreen so mastodon is dangerous now. Cool, we are on the cool edgy social media site your parents warned you about. It has a leather jacket and a motorbike.
Chris LThis motorbike goes toot.
Robin Metcalfe π@PieMan70 @davidallengreen I've already dyed my hair green and am considering listening to some music with shouting in it.
Shield Maiden@PieMan70 @davidallengreen (And we swig straight out of bottles....)
DanC@PieMan70 @davidallengreen I think you night be confusing "dangerous" with "having a mid-life crisis".
RMS06510@PieMan70 @davidallengreen and it smokes cigarettes ohno
Helen Ross@PieMan70 @davidallengreen Gravitas vs gravity.
Fido
Angus Marshall 
@PieMan70 @davidallengreen And a monocle.
HighlandLawyer@PieMan70 @davidallengreen Music with rocks in!
Cllr Samuel Ramsden
Matt Hauger
Edward Newton@PieMan70 @davidallengreen I'm getting a tattoo, that settles it
Transport Action Canada@PieMan70 @davidallengreen
We are the people your parents warned you about who wear anoraks and ride trains. πβ
We are the people your parents warned you about who wear anoraks and ride trains. πβ
Pat Martin@davidallengreen it shows that Musk sees Mastodon as serious competition, which is a backhanded compliment, I guess.
Colin the MathmoCalling @Chartodon LR ...
Roisin@davidallengreen I wonder had he implemented anti-mastoon coding for any one with detail in their name or bio, my time line on twitter has flatlined but then again Iβm investing nothing there but had 10 years invested in building conversions & communities of interest)
Barbara@davidallengreen not just dangerous but spammy too.... must be doing something right so π€£
keplerniko@davidallengreen I would check myself but I deactivated my Twitter this morning so I canβt
casey679@davidallengreen I tried to link to my server and it just wouldn't let me make the tweet.
Sensational GusBut there IS a good reason for it. He doesnβt want the competition.
Dr James J TeethItβs funny in that most people on Mastodon consider clicking a link to Twitter to be unsafe.
Tony Wyman@davidallengreen the little space gnome is afraid of Mastodon? What an alpha he is!
Hughster@davidallengreen We're long past the point where it became obvious that this is a (newly-inducted) far right activist running the site as a personal fiefdom. What's concerning now is how much tolerance users might have for this given how much influence they stand to lose.
Nigel Derbyshire β@davidallengreen I normally just have a link to my personal website, which has all the links on. Although when I clicked in it from my (not using it anymore) twitter profile, I half expected it to be blocked because it was a link to a page, that had a link to mastodon π
Richard Ayres@davidallengreen i can't even put my mastodon link on my twitter bio - it claims it's malware
Alex VI
Sam Sneddon π³οΈββ§οΈ@davidallengreen the reason is βfree speechβ, right? right?! that was the reason to purchase Twitter, right???
Leo The Cat πβοΈ@davidallengreen Right? But I can see porn on Twitter π€·πΌββοΈ
Davie5456@davidallengreen if I write a tweet with the word mastodon in it Twitter wonβt let me send it.
SamuelJohnson@Davie5456 @davidallengreen refer to pleistocene mammal, an exitinct proboscidean, tusked frightener of billionaires etc
Dr Grace