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> Prohibited platforms:

> Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Post and Nostr

> 3rd-party social media link aggregators such as linktr.ee, lnk.bio

Missing from this list are things that are not direct competitors, but where creators have monetized brands that they're motivated to promote on Twitter, including: YouTube, OnlyFans.

I suspect that promoting blog articles on Medium and Substack is still OK.

I also see TikTok getting incidentally promoted on other sites (even if it's by stealing content originally from TikTok, or referring to TikTok fads).

No mention of Reddit, which could be very similar to Twitter (but better), but historically has de-emphasized user profiles/identities.

Is Twitter focusing on competitors that permit user-profile-centric sharing sites?

(BTW, nice of them to give everyone a list of competitors they feel threatened by.)

It is likely if Twitter had its monetized video platform that is in the works up and running, sharing a link to your youtube and other video sharing sites might also of been on the list, as the list is meant to chain and jail you to Twitter.

> I suspect that promoting blog articles on Medium and Substack is still OK.

Putting aside the inconsistency/hypocrisy for a minute, I wonder how long that will last after they add long-form tweets.

My guess is that they reverse course on this policy in 1-3 weeks. But my track record in this matter isn't great: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33466363 (tldr I predicted Twitter wouldn't change very much)

I wonder how hard Twitter will try to find all the Mastodon servers (other than Mastodon.social) in people's bios?

As software engineers, we could guess how it could pretty easily be automated to be effectively exhaustive.

Questions are whether there's a will to do that, how decimated their engineering resources are, and what state their culture is in.

I don't know the fediverse protocol but wouldn't it be really easy to check if a link is part of it?

I assume so. Though I expect that this is another one of those things that Musk's attention will wander off somewhere else in a week or two.

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