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Re:Twitter Blocks Linking to Mastodon.social by tehlike on Friday June 03, 2022 @12:43PM (#31610653)
"it's not my job".

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.

Re:Twitter Blocks Linking to Mastodon.social by can16358p on Saturday June 04, 2022 @05:16AM (#31618448)
Of course everyone does mistakes, but that's not the point.

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.