Twitter has banned Mastodon links in name and bio for being “malware”

Re:Twitter has banned Mastodon links in name and bio for bei... by egberts1 on Thursday December 15, 2022 @11:35PM (#34010277)

I can see how easy it is to host malware on Mastodon. Way too easy. Better to block known malware hosters, just to be safe, ya know.

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Re:Twitter has banned Mastodon links in name and bio for bei... by klardotsh on Thursday December 15, 2022 @11:37PM (#34010305)

The logical conclusion of this argument is to disable all links on Twitter, as any domain that resolves to a server running an HTTP server could serve up malware, and that is not the world we want to go to (I say even having left Twitter long before the Elon buyout)

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Re:Twitter has banned Mastodon links in name and bio for bei... by rafael09ed on Thursday December 15, 2022 @11:47PM (#34010404)

What does HTTP vs HTTPS have to do with malware?

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Re:Twitter has banned Mastodon links in name and bio for bei... by wwalexander on Friday December 16, 2022 @12:01AM (#34010526)

I don’t believe the parent made a distinction between the two. Presumably they used “HTTP” to include both bare HTTP and HTTP-over-TLS?

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