It's dead obvious that they do not want it. The reasons why is beyond me.
Someone whose job it is made a few mistakes. you must have made a shit ton of mistake too. Claiming otherwise is stupid.
What you and i can pinpoint on twitter spam is independent of "everything is evil". Difference.
Twitter is just too powerful with all those engineers and access to ML to have this just as a mistake.
Whoever is responsible for that flagging is either:
- Incredibly incompetent and not knowing what they were doing (which I honestly don't want to believe)
- Knew exactly what they were doing and it's intentional with a benefit of doubt with plausible deniability.
Unintentionally blocking a whole domain "by mistake" falls into the first point above.
Knowing track record of social media companies hiring good engineers and being evil, also knowing Mastodon being a competitor to Twitter, I don't think I need to tell much more.