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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.
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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.

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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.
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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.
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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...

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