So @.joinmastodon got unbanned from Twitter.

This is the first tweet that they sent after the unbanning:

"As a company from eastern Germany, we know that building a wall to try and keep people from leaving isn't a good idea."

What a response!

@atomicpoet Cheers. ๐Ÿฅ‚ At John @Gargron Mastodon. ๐Ÿฅ‚
@Akhenatobi @atomicpoet
john
@Gargron mastodon > tear down this wall โ€‹โ€‹
@testing @Gargron @atomicpoet โœŒ๏ธ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿค๐Ÿคฉ
@atomicpoet OH snap. That response ain't playing.
@atomicpoet
yeah this statement might appear a bit harsh > anyway, mastodon ggmbh is located in a city called jena in east germany (used to be the east german hub of microelectronics before 1990) > the former border actually being quite close (< 130 km)

@atomicpoet

โ€œNiemand hat die Absicht, eine #Mauer zu errichtenโ€

"Nobody has the intention of building a #wall"

Though it was an event of way more historical gravity than Elon throwing tantrums in the bad place, Iโ€™m sure many Germans remembered this sentence todayโ€ฆ

https://youtu.be/YjgKKOdVRx4?t=43

"Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten"

YouTube
@atomicpoet Once the wall is broken down, the dam will just explode!

@atomicpoet I can't get over that Twitter unbanned an account that existed solely to promote another social media service 6 hours after releasing a policy to say they will ban anyone who promotes another social media service.

A M A Z I N G.

@rowyn @atomicpoet It's not that Musk is stupid. He's not!

But he may think we are.

@atomicpoet @rowyn @SamLeibowitz but if he thinks we are stupid, and we turn out not to be - wouldnโ€™t that as a matter of fact make him..?
@SamLeibowitz
@rowyn @atomicpoet I don't believe that anymore, he's failed up the ladder his whole life
@atomicpoet So sad they didn't change their display name to John Mastodon tho
@atomicpoet And birdsite does another lap around the toilet bowl.
@atomicpoet I think you're conflating two different entities
@atomicpoet terrible anti communist nonsense

@atomicpoet Replaced with a TwitterSafety message, a POLL, asking "should twitter ban IG, MASTO, etc ..." https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1604657989977260033

head-smacking

@atomicpoet

wow that response is fire ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ

@atomicpoet poke the snake much? ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ
@atomicpoet ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ

It's so impossible to escape from occupied southern #Ukraine that on Saturday a 65-yo man successfully swam 1km across the Dniepr River, under mortar fire, to #Ukraine-controlled territory.

That's the kind of "fort" Muscovy has built despite international law stating occupants MUST allow free movement.

Musk supports Ruschist regime.

MBA strategy students taught "Building Forts" is WORST strategy.

Same goes for any State or culture.

Musk's forgotten what he once knew.
@atomicpoet

@atomicpoet as a german that was literally my first thought after they enacted the policy: "They are building a berlin wall around twitter."
@atomicpoet that tweet from TwitterSupport has been deleted along with the same information on their webpages lmao.
@atomicpoet It's funny that in the end they deleted that tweet. Or it's just Nitter being funky?
@hkc No, they deleted the tweet and then put up a poll asking about what their policy should be ๐Ÿ˜†
@atomicpoet also it was a dumb idea to disallow "*mastodon*" & "*mstdn*" and alike from being posted/used in bios and such. Plus, according to their own tweets, only Mastodon is prohibited, they've said nothing about Pleroma, Misskey and many, many other Fediverse software. Better for us though 
@atomicpoet I heard if twitter bans other platforms, it no longer is a town square, and becomes a publisher, and can held responsible for all the tweets published. I have a feeling the law critters forced this change :D
@atomicpoet a good response, Elon is overreacting
@atomicpoet
Wow.
Also, it should be stated that the form of incorporation, gGmbH, requires it by law to be non-profit.
@atomicpoet For the USSR, the wall, along with oppression, worked well, in that people could not get out and were intimidated into submission. It was absolutely dreadful for those people, of course (well, part of coping for some of course was internalization).
@atomicpoet John Mastodon doesn't fuck around.

@atomicpoet

As a girl who lived behind that wall, I can only totally agree to that.

โ€žNiemand hat die Absicht eine Mauer zu errichten...โ€œ (Nobody has intention to build a wall)

In my mind, #twitter is saying exactly that.

@atomicpoet @aloa5 @charles_ex @Ginger149 I can get tired of this. Twitter safety says permanent bans found which are not reasonable. If it happens Twitter will have changed
@atomicpoet @aloa5 @charles_ex @Ginger149 follow people with keywords bio or mute power posters. More broadly rules and just days weeks. Only follow quoted and keywords .spam don't quote
@atomicpoet
Using a quote tweet, a feature they are strongly against implementing for Mastodon ๐Ÿคฃ
@atomicpoet works for apple and microsoft; why wouldn't it work for Elon?
@atomicpoet wait, doesnt this mean they should ban youtube account as well then? i mean it promotes itself just like mastodon lmao
@atomicpoet already read that, mastodon is better than twitter, no need phone number verification
Twitter suck
@atomicpoet It's deleted now. What a mess.