Twitter has banned Mastodon links in name and bio for being “malware”
There are two ways this could have happened:<p>1) Twitter/Elon has made the conscious decision to censor all references to Mastodon in an attempt to retain market share.<p>2) Somebody shared something bad with a mastodon.social link, and Twitter's always-creaky moderation systems, now nerfed and defunded by Elon, completely failed to realize the implications and added mastodon.social to the same global domain ban list as viruses4u.ru and freeviagra.xxx etc.<p>My money is actually on #2, because the ban <i>only</i> appears to impact mastodon.social and not any other Mastodon instance, but I guess we'll find out once this hits mainstream news and Twitter has to make a public decision on this.