Mastodon MigrationDec 28, 2022

#MastodonNews Dec 28, 2022

Seems not everybody is willing to sell out to evil billionaires.

Financial Times: Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to protect non-profit status >>>
https://t.co/TXNmtIPV3O

Twitter rival Mastodon has rejected more than five investment offers from Silicon Valley firms... The platform’s non-profit status was “untouchable”... Mastodon will not turn into everything you hate about Twitter.

News Archive >>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d5Q6oyzrlfXBEhHsLI9cxltdFV_XPrZWQj1mj8Ivc7Q/edit?usp=sharing
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Client Challenge

Show threadDavid Harlan

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"subscribe to unlock this article"

boy, they get you coming or going, don't they

Dec 28, 2022 at 5:22pmWeb
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@DavidMHarlan says that it is a paid article.

Use the link in the body of the text, not the preview box. It seems that is a free link.

Edit: for some reason this no longer works. Apologies.

Edit: On one browser it failed, then tried it on another login and it worked, so perhaps that would work for you. Also, it worked from an incognito window.

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Show threadDavid HarlanDec 28, 2022

@mastodonmigration

Still getting the "subscribe" popup with that link 🤔

no matter, the headline gives good gist

Show threadMastodon MigrationDec 28, 2022

@DavidMHarlan Your right. It now seems to have expired. Very crafty.

Edit: On one browser it failed, then tried it on another login and it worked, so perhaps that would work for you. Also, it worked from an incognito window.

Show threadNyaa Dec 28, 2022

@mastodonmigration It seems to sometimes do it when loaded for me, but sometimes not, not sure why. It also is still paywalled if you wayback machine the link

Seems to work from other archive sites though https://archive.ph/rLsYb

archive.ph