Absolutely mind blowing how nakedly desperate you have to be to make your social media platform the only one that flat out bans users for posting links to other social media platforms or linktree. It telegraphs 1) that you are losing so many users that you're in really serious trouble and 2) you're too arrogant and ignorant to realize that this policy, if enacted, is going to just obliterate the tattered user base you have left
I have to say that this is astonishing to me even though my expectation with the acquisition was that the company would be in ruins. But I thought it would take maybe 6 months to a year, not two months

@AbandonedAmerica

I'm just grateful it's fast enough that it's encouraging a positive force in #activitypub influencing the 2024 elections, rather than #Twitter turning into a right-wing boiling frog experiment, negatively impacting them.

Thanks Elon!

@Blort @AbandonedAmerica I’m glad it’s slightly slow enough so there can be staggered migrations so mastodon has time to adapt