#techhub defederation notice

All #birdsite instances. Birdsite is a ActivityPub compatible software that allow mastodonians to follow "twits" on Twitter. In short it re-post tweets on #mastodon.

Here's my reasoning for blocking:
1) it's confusing, we've receiced a couple of report saying these accounts are impersonating someone when in fact it's re-post from twitter original account
2) most of us left #twitter for good, not wanting to go back. Seeing tweets reposted here is defeating that.
3) most importantly these birdsite instances don't have either Twitter or the tweet's poster permission to re-post on Mastodon.

Let me know if you disagree I would be open to let one of them muted instead of blocked.

@nicdex

I don't like the idea of simply banning a source because it's Twitter - or even external. Bridging things like IRC and slack is a time honored tradition in the OSS world. Some folks may like to follow yet-to-migrate accounts. Hate the sin not the sinner and all that.

#3 seems to be a reasonable objection - but tweets are public so it's a bit of a grey area...