Twitter Blocks Linking to Mastodon.social

Re:Twitter Blocks Linking to Mastodon.social by abnry on Friday June 03, 2022 @10:36AM (#31608872)

I would qualify this by saying the priors matter. Twitter has torched their credibility in a flaming dumpster fire. That changes how one might make assumptions.

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Re:Twitter Blocks Linking to Mastodon.social by colpabar on Friday June 03, 2022 @11:35AM (#31609754)

It also just looks suspect. Mastadon is a competitor to twitter, right? It's obviously good for twitter that no one can post links to the mastadon sign up page, right? Do I still have to assume it's just a bug?

I sure wish the bugs in my code ended up benefiting my company :)

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Re:Twitter Blocks Linking to Mastodon.social by tehlike on Friday June 03, 2022 @11:57AM (#31610105)

Mastodon is a very very small surface for twitter...

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Re:Twitter Blocks Linking to Mastodon.social by somenameforme on Friday June 03, 2022 @12:03PM (#31610192)

And not long ago Facebook was a very small surface for MySpace. And Reddit was a very small surface for Digg, and so on. Network effects can cause competition to rapidly snowball.

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Re:Twitter Blocks Linking to Mastodon.social by tehlike on Friday June 03, 2022 @12:56PM (#31610796)

I root for mastodon, but i don't think it becoming big enough to challenge any current social media platform.

Twitter may die, but i don't think mastodon would grow as much as you make it sound.

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