no URLs. no usernames without the URL. no bypassing restrictions on URLs (like writing example dot com). no posting images with usernames in them.

free speech!

anyway best of luck to twitter support on enforcing THIS policy

can't wait for everyone to be out there encoding their tweets

conveniently—especially if this is retroactive—this can be used to justify a ban against just about anyone
@molly0xfff That's what I was just wondering looking at the new policy. I've got thousands upon thousands of tweets, many of which will surely violate this policy. There's no functionality to let me find and clear them up, so I'm basically using Twitter while seated under the Sword of Damocles.
@molly0xfff https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/ is a bit out of date rn 😅
Twitter is Going Great!

Twitter is Going Great is a project inspired by Web3 is Going Just Great to track the latest examples of how Twitter is actively falling to pieces thanks to its current owner Elon Musk (with special guests Jack Dorsey and the Saudi Arabian royal family).

@molly0xfff oh right not yours, just your generator

@jsd She does not run that

@molly0xfff

@ruari @molly0xfff realised that the root under loool, layout being same confused me

@jsd Yeah they just use her "Static timeline generator"

https://github.com/molly/static-timeline-generator

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GitHub - molly/static-timeline-generator: Create static timeline webpages.

Create static timeline webpages. Contribute to molly/static-timeline-generator development by creating an account on GitHub.

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@molly0xfff Retroactive could be breach of contract and could even be subject to judicial review. Not that anyone should care. Who would want to be reinstated to Twitter now?
@molly0xfff It's probably not practical to enforce this rule universally, so this is exactly what I'm thinking. It will be selectively enforced for sure, whether that was the intent or not.
@molly0xfff I’m guessing that’s the general idea. I doubt they’re concerned with actually fairly enforcing this just want a pretext to get rid of people they don’t want.
@molly0xfff It's almost enough to make me want to go dig through Musk and Tesla's old tweets from before he ditched facebook. There should be a link or several back there.
@molly0xfff Quick Google search turned it up faster than I thought: https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/2183625868
Tesla on Twitter

“Join the Tesla Fan Page on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/teslamotors #Facebook #Tesla”

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@molly0xfff Translate English to Klingon (Latin) 😎
@molly0xfff my "everyone is leaving my hellsite" tshirt is raising a lot of questions already answered etc

@molly0xfff this is hilarious on so many levels.

This is dismantling a system while it's still alive and trying to convince the world it is killing itself. He needs bird site dead and I don't think they calculated on how welcoming and helpful places #Mastodon would be. (Obviously we have growing pains... but they are workable, I think)

@molly0xfff

rat chase round 2 starts now 😂

they find ways to block, people find new ways to circumvent

@molly0xfff Not losing an account adds new meaning to "lossless encoding" :)

@molly0xfff encountered this toot mere minutes after I considered changing my twitter name to @𝕔𝕣𝕪𝕡𝕥𝕒𝕕𝕒𝕞𝕚𝕤𝕥@𝕦𝕟𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕖𝕠𝕕𝕠𝕟.𝕔𝕠𝕞

or maybe I'll go with one of these:

- @ᄃЯYPƬΛDΛMIƧƬ@ЦПIVΣЯƧΣӨDӨП.ᄃӨM
- @¢яуρтα∂αмιѕт@υηινєяѕєσ∂ση.¢σм
- @çɾվքէąժąʍìʂէ@մղìѵҽɾʂҽօժօղ.çօʍ
- @ᑕᖇYᑭTᗩᗪᗩᗰIᔕT@ᑌᑎIᐯEᖇᔕEOᗪOᑎ.ᑕOᗰ
- @̷c̷r̷y̷p̷t̷a̷d̷a̷m̷i̷s̷t̷@̷u̷n̷i̷v̷e̷r̷s̷e̷o̷d̷o̷n̷.̷c̷o̷m̷

(but of course I'm shadowbanned on twitter right now so I can't even do that while I wait and wonder if I will be unshadowbanned if I stay away long enough)

@molly0xfff Thanks for the inspiration of a workaround!

@molly0xfff They already backpedalled, it seems. (The rules seems to be gone, but posting links seems still broken.)

Might be related to tiny issue that this policy is so 100% explicitly illegal under the new EU platform laws.

And the EU commissioner responsible was clever, by himself mentioning that the EU would ban Twitter, Emperor Elon I. cannot throw a tantrum and threaten to withdraw Twitter from Europe as punishment.