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Re:The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X by GaryBluto on Thursday December 04, 2025 @11:05AM (#46149104)
> the move I personally enjoyed engaging in was getting my account blocked.

So you think the FSF should've used the account representing them to troll?

Re:The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X by Xylakant on Thursday December 04, 2025 @11:13AM (#46149204)
Haven't tested lately, but at least for a while you could get your account blocked by publicly suggesting people follow you some other place.
Re:The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X by jsheard on Thursday December 04, 2025 @12:01PM (#46149854)
PG got suspended for directing his followers to Mastodon: https://x.com/alexisohanian/status/1604604968677392386

They did walk that policy back due to the backlash, but they really wanted to do it.

Re:The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X by jayknight on Thursday December 04, 2025 @11:39AM (#46149580)
I made my account private and put my bsky address in my profile, so that doesn't appear to be an insta ban.
Re:The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X by glhaynes on Thursday December 04, 2025 @11:48AM (#46149677)
IIRC, it was for a while and then the decision was reverted.
Re:The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X by latexr on Thursday December 04, 2025 @12:20PM (#46150119)
It received so much backlash it didn’t even last one day.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/19/tech/twitter-elon-musk-de...

Re:The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X by catapart on Thursday December 04, 2025 @12:39PM (#46150391)
No, I described a way of getting blocked that I personally enjoyed. Haters (me) gonna hate, after all.

I think the FSF should not be on Twitter at all. Sorry if I was unclear about that in my previous comment, but the first paragraph was meant to contradict OP's suggestion.

Re:The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X by cocainemonster on Thursday December 04, 2025 @03:36PM (#46152691)
could change birthday to underage and get banned that way