It's fascinating and disturbing watching people take the plain language of the new policy and twist it to mean "well, they're really only going after spammers..."

It is clearly not that. There are two separate sections, one specifically about content *on the tweet level* and another on suspension of accounts.

People are happily concluding the latter precludes the former and it's driving me mad.

@TechConnectify Their fans are doing some amazing mental gymnastics!

Spammers don't even use these links to begin with, they create links that are mostly crypto related. It's unreal.

@DeviantXS @TechConnectify
Yeah it's definitely not about spam. It's entirely about bleeding users. If they *only* prevented links to Mastodon it would say they see it specifically as a threat so they're blocking pretty much all links to any other social media site instead.