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Twitter is now marking Substack links as unsafe

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This is so disappointing. Twitter is one of my main sources for consuming content, and I have completely lost faith in it.

Substack is more than well-positioned to create a Twitter alternative.

> Substack is more than well-positioned to create a Twitter alternative.

Substack Notes has been released which is likely the cause behind the Twitter ban of substack links.

So no one can compete now? lol.

Elon being a petulant child and authoritarian wannabe who is largely anti-competitive, is probably the accurate reason the links and RTs are banned or flagged.

Elon owning Twitter and running it like this is far more worrisome than TikTok being an app.

From not allowing retweets to marking links as unsafe to just suspending an account named Substack (https://twitter.com/substack). That was quick.

But Substack's actual handle is @Substackinc (https://twitter.com/SubstackInc) (or so it seems).

If only there was some kind of method to indicate official accounts of companies...

Oh that's wild. Actual @substack is/was an open source developer I used to follow, though he seems to have stopped tweeting some years back.

Who would have thought that a self proclaimed free speech absolutist would turn Twitter into a free speech suppressing clown show?

> Who would have thought that a self proclaimed free speech absolutist would turn Twitter into a free speech suppressing clown show?

The most direct answer would be every being who is more objective than a muskrat. There are a lot of muskrats tho.

lol, i'll assume this comment is sarcasm. but me, i did.

Repeating the whole mastodon saga? Its literally going to have the exact same result, people fleeing the platform.

and the linktree saga, and the...and the...

The elon musk way™

The rumor is "Twitter is upset about the new Substack Notes feature, which they see as a hostile rival."

Substack is unsafe but Putin is so awesome that Twitter just had to have him back.

ref: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2023/04/07/elon-musk-...

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