Is it a competitor though? The amount of developer salary it would take to implement such a feature and push it out at Twitter vs. the close to zero threat Mastadon poses to Twitter, seems like a bad tradeoff if we're being conspiratorial.

Twitter has been known to block certains URLs on short notice. Its hardly difficult to do it for one more...

But the difference is that incompetence is far more plentiful than malice. It's an odds game. Everyone makes mistakes, few actions people in general take are done in malice.

Odds are not unviversally random. Like what happened at Exxon was more often malice than incompetence.

Is every exxon decision malice then? like opening a gas station in your neighborhood because it didn't have any? Sure it has profit in mind, but is it evil or malice?