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People here can't even read a few paragraphs on a link posted?

> We recognize that certain social media platforms provide alternative experiences to Twitter, and allow users to post content to Twitter from these platforms. In general, any type of cross-posting to our platform is not in violation of this policy, even from the prohibited sites listed above.

This is just about people who basically stop using Twitter and post a link to follow their profile on a different social media site instead, not about posting links in general.

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But you're not allowed to have your ig username in your bio. That's not "people who basically stop using Twitter and post a link to follow their profile on a different social media site instead"

> This is just about people who basically stop using Twitter and post a link to follow their profile on a different social media site instead, not about posting links in general.

If that’s what they meant, they’d say that. The actual language is clear and far more expansive because that’s not their intent.

Put another way, the richest man in the world can hire his own PR team. Why are you giving away your credibility pro bono?

I think people are overreacting, as usually when there's something about social media going on. I have no horse in the game as I have no account on either of the sites. I merely warm my hands over the dumpster fire.

I think you missed this part:

> At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms, such as linking out (i.e. using URLs) to any of the below platforms on Twitter, or providing your handle without a URL

This reads like they will actively delete or mute your tweets that link out to these platforms and try to promote alternative presences. This is in absolutely no way any level of reasonable

You're not allowed to link to any other social media. You can cross post, but you can't mention that it's a cross post, or link to where it's cross posted. There is no excusing this.

> This is just about people who basically stop using Twitter and post a link to follow their profile on a different social media site instead

Even if it was, censoring it is abhorrent.

Network effects are devilish even without ethically just plain evil intervention from the benefactor of those network effects.

This is just ethically abhorrent behavior. No good governance.

My read on that is that they allow the content to be cross-posted, not linked

And how does one do that if every post to mastodon is flagged as malware?

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