Twitter has flagged all the major Mastodon servers as malware URLs containing any of the popular Mastodon servers are rejected by the Twitter API. Profile bios and URLs are now rejected if a user attempts to change them. All the major Mastodon sites are flagged, and Twitter is even checking 3XX redirects, transparent proxies, and URL/link shortening services for Mastodon related responses. |
Other than the techies getting emotional and screaming at Twitter, little to no one of the 200M+ people still using Twitter daily care to delete their account(s) and leave for something worse.
I am very much in favor of premarital sex, but if the Pope is seen tomorrow in an orgy I'll certainly point the hypocrisy.
My perspective is that at least now it's out in the open.
I don't even see them as competing platforms, they offer very different products via the same medium. Legally, I don't know if having such ToS would be a problem, but as a user I would find it extremely frustrating to not have to ability to discover content that YT seemingly doesn't want to focus on itself.